Derby man summoned for marijuana cultivation

Leslie Rogers, 33, of Derby was summoned for marijuana cultivation this week when officers from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Milo Police Department found two potted marijuana plants on a back porch.

A concerned resident called police about suspicious activity at another home in the area, but a search of that place did not uncover any illegal activity, according to Milo Police Chief Michael Poulin. The police, along with the MDEA, also received information about Rogers’ home, he said.

Poulin said the officers knocked on Rogers’ door and when he didn’t answer, they went to the back of his home where they found the two marijuana plants. A relative notified Rogers of the presence of police, and he returned home and gave police permission to search the home, Poulin said.

Last Saturday, Vicky L. Light, 41, of Milo caused an accident that demolished both her vehicle and a parked, empty vehicle, Poulin said. Light was charged with operation of a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

Poulin said Light had been traveling south on Park Street at a high rate of speed when she slammed into a vehicle owned by Christopher Bessey, who was visiting at a home nearby. He estimated that Light had been traveling 50 miles per hour when she struck the parked vehicle.

Light was taken by Three Rivers Ambulance to Eastern Maine Medical Center where she was treated and later released, according to the chief.

A North Dexter Road seasonal home in Parkman was trashed and items stolen from it during a break-in that was reported Tuesday.

Investigator Jamie Kane of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department and the owners believe the break-in occurred late last year. The owners had been at the home during hunting season. He said apparently someone who lives on the road saw the door open in early December and had covered it up with plywood, not suspecting it had been broken into.

Kane, who was on the scene Friday, said the door was forced open. Inside, the vandals had smashed a television set, a table and a microwave oven using an ax.

The copper was stripped from wires in every appliance in the house and from the house itself, Kane said. Missing from the home is a Craftsman chainsaw, a DVD player, a Nintendo game and an air compressor.

In a second incident investigated Friday, another North Dexter Road resident reported that someone had removed the catalytic converter from his pickup truck and another vehicle parked in his driveway. Investigator Dave Wilson said the two converters were removed on Thursday night.

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