LINNEUS, Maine — Officers with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency dismantled a methamphetamine lab Thursday in a Linneus home where a small child was living.
According to Maine Public Safety spokesperson Steve McCausland, MDEA agents and the department’s lab response team safely took apart the lab while wearing protective suits and breathing equipment. Such precautions are necessary due to the highly volatile nature of methamphetamine labs.
The lab was discovered Thursday afternoon when MDEA agents went to the Route 2A home after the Maine Department of Health and Human Services had received information that a meth lab was operating inside the premises. Deputies were then called to secure the mobile home until the lab team arrived.
As of Tuesday morning, no charges had been filed for meth manufacturing. A resident of the home, however, was charged with violating his bail conditions. Alan Gilotti, 28, lived in the mobile home with an unidentified woman and her 4-year-old child. Gilotti was out on bail for a previous meth arrest.
A second woman, 28-year-old Nichole Hall, was also charged with possession of meth. Hall was visiting the home at the time of the investigation.
Both Hall and Gilotti were taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton. The woman who lives at the home with her daughter has not been charged.
Gilotti is the son of Alan Gilotti Sr., who was shot and killed by Maine State Police troopers at his home in Ludlow in October, 2014.
The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Linneus Fire Department assisted with the investigation.
This is the eighth meth lab discovered in Maine so far this year.
