A Chesterville man was sentenced for his role in a Phillips methamphetamine manufacturing operation.
Jason Fowler, 40, was sentenced to nine years in prison with all but 18 months suspended and three years probation, according to Franklin County court documents.
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Fowler was arrested in July along with three other people in connection with an investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.
Michael Halle, 46, was sentenced to six years in jail with all but two and a half years suspended and three years’ probation on the charge of class B trafficking in scheduled drugs. Erin Smith, 43, was granted a two-year deferred disposition for the same charge.
The case against defendant Kimberly Webber is still pending.
The investigation started after police received a report of a meth manufacturing operation in Phillips.
Several weeks into the investigation, Detective Ken Charles, of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, pulled Fowler over for driving with a suspended license and found evidence of the drug in the car.
Fowler had been arrested in June for assaulting a state trooper and failure to appear and was on a probation hold, so he couldn’t be released on bail after the July arrest.
Police and drug agents later went to Halle’s and Smith’s home on Rangeley Road in Phillips, where authorities said they seized material for making meth.
Authorities said at the time that Halle was teaching the others to make meth. They said he and Smith had moved to the area from Florida a few months before.
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