CALAIS, Maine (AP) A longtime Maine police officer who recently retired was arrested and charged with giving drugs to a teenager in a high school parking lot. Jeffrey Bishop, 53, was a police officer in Calais, Maine, until Jan. 30 and was arrested Feb. 5 on drug charges, the Bangor Daily News reported on Wednesday. Bishop gave a 17-year-old student hydrocodone pills and fentanyl in a high school parking lot, police said. The drugs were meant.
Union Hall in Danforth, (Alexander MacDougall | Houlton Pioneer Times)
Danforth considers next steps after town funds discovered missing The Danforth Board of Selectmen is weighing its next steps on how to proceed in the case of the town’s missing $100,000.
DANFORTH, Maine The Danforth Board of Selectmen is weighing its next steps on how to proceed in the case of the town’s missing $100,000.
The town told the public about the missing funds for the first time in October during a special town meeting. But the town had initially discovered that the funds were missing in 2017, according to a public statement issued by the town. The missing funds dated from between 2014 and 2016.
The City of Kalona has contributed $2,500 to the Washington County Sheriffs’ K9 Unit.
Back in early December, the department’s K9 named Vasco, died of cancer after over five years of service helping the sheriff’s office detect drugs, track missing and wanted individuals and protect partners as well as handler, Deputy Nolan Burke. They recently added a new K9 named Dzamal.
At their meeting Monday night, the Kalona City Council voted to approve the financial assistance to the K9 program and City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh presented the check to the Washington County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, “Staff-wise we talked about how we could participate that would be acceptable to the public and we presented that to council and they were unanimous in their support of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department as well as providing the $2,500 to help defray some of the costs associated with bringing a dog on board and sending an officer to go train for four weeks.”