Suspected meth lab in Ellsworth being investigated
This is part of a joint investigation conducted by the Ellsworth Police Department and MDEA's Downeast Regional Task Force. Also assisting at the scene is the Ellsworth Fire Dept., County Ambulance Service, Maine DEP and the Hancock County Emergency Management Agency. (Courtesy MDEA)
This is part of a joint investigation conducted by the Ellsworth Police Department and MDEA's Downeast Regional Task Force. Also assisting at the scene is the Ellsworth Fire Dept., County Ambulance Service, Maine DEP and the Hancock County Emergency Management Agency. (Courtesy MDEA)
ELLSWORTH —The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency is responding to a suspected methamphetamine laboratory in Ellsworth Thursday, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, in an email.
This is the fifth time this year, that the MDEA has had to deal with a suspected a meth lab in the state.
McCausland said that agents have responded to an apartment house at 153 State St. in Ellsworth.
“The lab was discovered by Ellsworth Police last night and the occupants of the apartment house were evacuated and the building was secured,” said McCausland.
The MDEA lab team has responded to the site and with protective suits and breathing gear, will search the apartment and remove any items suspected of being involved with the making of methamphetamine.
The occupants of the apartment have been questioned, but no one has been arrested at this point, according to McCausland.
This is the second time this month that a meth lab has been discovered in Hancock County. A lab was dismantled inside a Bar Harbor home two weeks ago.
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153 State Street
Ellsworth, ME
United States
