West Gardiner Transfer Station Employee Charged With Making Drugs On Town Property

An employee at West Gardiner’s transfer station is charged with manufacturing drugs on town property. Patrick Deschamps, 24, of Gardiner, was arrested Monday afternoon on a charge of unlawful trafficking in the scheduled X drug hash, said Maine State Police Trooper Christopher Rogers. The charge is a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Hash is a potent form of marijuana. Deschamps was being held Monday night at the Kennebec County jail in lieu of $600 cash bail. Rogers said town officials contacted police Monday with a concern that an employee was manufacturing drugs on town property near the transfer station. “They’d been out there and seen it and spoken to Patrick about it,” Rogers said. Town officials took photos of the drug and sent them to Rogers, who identified it as hash.