Belfast man faces drug charges Random police check leads to arrest of manslaughter defendant

ELLSWORTH – A Belfast man who pleaded no contest to a charge of manslaughter involving the death of his brother is being held at the Hancock County Jail following his arrest last week on drug-related charges.

Alan Talgo, 22, was arrested Dec. 17 on a probation hold after Deputy Matt Curtis of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department conducted a random check for drugs at Talgo’s residence on Boynton Avenue, according to documents filed in Hancock County Superior Court.

Talgo was found with prescription drugs and more than $800 in cash in his pockets and with drug paraphernalia, police said.

Talgo was booked Dec. 26 into the Hancock County Jail. He is to be held there without bail until his sentencing on Jan. 3 on the manslaughter charge, according to court documents.

Talgo pleaded no contest last July to a charge of manslaughter and three counts of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon in connection with a fatal accident Aug. 4, 2000 in the Hancock County town of Penobscot.

Talgo was driving a 1998 Kia Sephia at 90 mph on Route 175 shortly before 7 a.m. when it went off the road, killing his brother Vaughn Talgo, 20, and injuring the driver and three other passengers, according to the Maine State Police.

Talgo was released on bail of $50,000 surety or $5,000 cash with the conditions that he not commit any crimes, not use or possess any nonprescription drugs, and submit to random searches and testing for drugs, according to the documents.

Deputy Curtis, along with Sgt. John Gibbs and Officer Bryan Cunningham, both of the Belfast Police Department, arrived at Talgo’s home on Dec. 17 to conduct a random drug search when Talgo reportedly locked himself in the bathroom and started flushing the toilet, according to police.

Police found Talgo with methadone, percocet and vicodin – all of which he said were from some of his old prescriptions – in his pockets along with $807 in cash, police said. Also found in Talgo’s home was a water pipe, plastic bags, razor blades, spoons and a digital scale with white powder on it, they said.

Talgo also was summoned on a charge of possession of illegal drugs, police said. His post-conviction bail was revoked Dec. 19 by Justice Ellen Gorman.

Talgo also was found with cocaine and marijuana when he was stopped Feb. 12, 2001 by the state police for speeding on the Maine Turnpike, according to court documents.

In the accident that killed his brother, Alan Talgo was driving at an estimated 90 mph when it crested a hill near Snow’s Garage on Route 175 and became airborne, police said. The car went an estimated 30 feet through the air before landing and going into a skid across a lawn. The car rolled and hit a telephone pole, snapping it in two, they said.

Talgo and another passenger, Christopher Riley, 20, were taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Two other passengers -a third Talgo brother, Craig Talgo, 19, and Jason Littlefield, 16 – were taken to Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, where they were treated and then released.

Talgo was speeding because the occupants of the car were late to their jobs in Stonington, according to state police. Police said at the time of the wreck that alcohol did not seem to have been a factor in the fatality.