{"id":726,"date":"2025-12-31T00:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/two-mainers-arrested-in-fort-fairfield-drug-bust\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:07:50","slug":"two-mainers-arrested-in-fort-fairfield-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/two-mainers-arrested-in-fort-fairfield-drug-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Mainers arrested in Fort Fairfield drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Police say a report about a burglary led to a drug bust and two arrests in Fort Fairfield on Friday.Police say they got a report about a burglary involving a contractor&#8217;s service truck parked in a driveway on Elm Street.The suspects had already fled before police arrived. Police say they used a K-9 to follow a scent trail that led officers to a home on Columbia Avenue, which was near the burglary location.Police say they then searched the home and found approximately 7.8 grams of fentanyl and a handgun along with other evidence of drug trafficking.Police then arrested 33-year-old Timothy Philbrick of Fort Fairfield and 23-year-old Mariah McEwen of Fort Fairfield. The pair were both charged with aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs, unlawful furnishing of schedule W drugs, unlawful possession of schedule W drugs, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.They were taken to the Aroostook County Jail. Philbrick&#8217;s bail was set at $2,500 cash. McEwen was released on $500 cash bail.Police say additional charges related to the burglary are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Police say a report about a burglary led to a drug bust and two arrests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}