ALFRED — In the late fall of 2008, Patrick Dapolito got a new source for his marijuana distribution business.

ALFRED — For awhile, Angel Dapolito had an inkling of how her father made his living. There was a money counter and a scale in the house, boxes in the garage and her father carried enough cash that he could buy a television set without a credit card.

Angel Dapolito, 20, says Patrick Dapolito and Kelly Winslow ran a very organized drug dealing business before Winslow’s slaying in 2010.

PORTLAND — A fugitive from Biddeford who exchanged gunfire with U.S. marshals in one of Portland’s most crowded neighborhoods Friday appeared in court Monday to face charges of attempted murder of a federal officer and possession of a firearm by a felon.

A state police detective testified today that Dapolito’s wife, Kelly Winslow, may have wanted to inform on Dapolito to the DEA before she was shot to death.

ALFRED — Patrick Dapolito lay down on the bathroom floor, spooning the life-size mannequin that was standing in for his dead wife. They always went to sleep in that position, he explained to the detectives, and on this particular occasion, they were lying on their right sides, with his left arm draped over his wife’s body, his face in her hair and a gun in his right hand under his head.

Scarborough Town Councilor Judith Roy has accepted a plea deal in her drunken driving case that allowed her to avoid jail time.

ALFRED — After Patrick Dapolito lost his oil industry job, he applied his business sense and organizational abilities to his newfound trade: Drug dealing. He was successful, but a dispute with his suppliers put him and his family at grave risk.