A woman who helped steal tools from a home being built for quadruple amputee Travis Mills is one of three people facing drug charges following last week’s search of her Manchester home.

Tiffany Ann-Marie Fitzpatrick, 27, and Jonathan Norton, 35, are charged with unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. Fitzpatrick, who was on a deferred disposition in connection with the burglary at Mills’ home and another in Windsor, also is charged with violating conditions of release and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.

Fitzpatrick is one of three people to be charged in connection with the search. Norton and Elizabeth Munster, 33, were each charged with unlawful drug possession. Norton also is facing charges of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, and Munster faces an additional charge of violating conditions of release.

Fitzpatrick and Munster were held without bail over the weekend at the Kennebec County jail. Norton was held in lieu of $50,000 cash bail.

The new charges stem from a search conducted Friday at Fitzpatrick’s home at 50 Fairbanks Road that turned up illegal prescription drugs and drug paraphernalia, Kennebec County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Bickford wrote in an affidavit.

Bickford, working with a confidential informant, made arrangements to buy heroin from Fitzpatrick at her home. A couple of days later, Bickford got a warrant to search the home Fitzpatrick shares with Norton. Bickford wrote that he found hypodermic needles, drug packaging materials and a scale in a second-floor bedroom shared by Fitzpatrick and Norton.

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Bickford wrote that Munster was charged after she was found with a plastic box containing hypodermic needles and two 30 mg oxycodone pills for which she did not have a prescription. Munster, who is free on conditions of release that prohibit her from using drugs, tested positive for heroin and oxycodone, Bickford wrote.

Fitzpatrick was arrested in April 2014 in connection with a theft of equipment from a construction site at a home being built for Travis Mills, a retired Army staff sergeant who lost parts of both legs and both arms during a third tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Fitzpatrick admitted to helping Clinton Uriah Bates II, who was 36 at the time, steal the equipment, according to an affidavit filed at the time by Kennebec County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Moody.

Fitzpatrick’s deferred disposition, which could result in convictions on lesser charges, is contingent upon her not committing any more crimes.

Craig Crosby — 621-5642

ccrosby@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @CraigCrosby4


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