STANDISH – Police said two young children sent to live with relatives after their parents were arrested and charged with operating a meth lab inside their New Sharon home last month, were once again living at a home where the manufacturing of methamphetamine is alleged.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said a meth lab was discovered over the weekend at a home in Standish and a couple living there was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.
Arrested were Timothy Schoubroek, 32, of Standish for unlawful trafficking in methamphetamine, Class B and violation of conditional release, Class E; and Tressa Sprague, 35, of Standish for, unlawful trafficking in methamphetamine, Class B, violation of conditional release, Class E.
Late last month, Daniel Villacci, 28, and Tabatha Schoubroek, 30, were arrested and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine at their home at 545 Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon. A MDEA spokesman reported at the time that there was evidence that a cooking vessel exploded and caused extensive fire damage in the home and that more people may be involved. The couple was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child because their two children, aged 6 and 8, also lived at the house.
The state’s Department of Health and Human Services sent the two New Sharon children to live with Timothy Schoubroek, Sprague, their three children and their grandmother, who owns the split level house in Standish.
On Saturday morning, deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department responded to 1 Woodland Avenue in Standish for a family disturbance. “While there deputies obtained information of a suspected meth laboratory at the home,” said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety on Monday.
Members of the MDEA Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team responded to the scene, searched the house and said they found evidence of two, “one pot” labs. In addition, two older labs were located discarded along the wood line of the property, MDEA reported.
Timothy Schoubroek and Sprague, who reside on the first floor of the home, were arrested for manufacturing methamphetamine and violating their conditions of release on a pending theft charge. Both were transported to the Cumberland County Jail. Both were being held without bail pending a court appearance on Monday.
The five children, including the two from New Sharon, are staying with the grandmother.
Additional charges may be considered for endangering the welfare of a child, because of the children living at the house. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services have been contacted and is assisting, McCausland added.
On April 1, Villacci of New Sharon, was supposed to begin serving a 6-month sentence after he pleaded guilty to felony unlawful possession of a schedule drug in connection with a heroin overdose in which he and Tabatha Schoubroek were found unresponsive by a child returning to their New Sharon home on April 8, 2014.
In that case, Schoubroek agreed to a one year deferred disposition on a felony charge of unlawful possession of a Schedule drug. The agreement included the provision that if she abides by the conditions for one year, on Aug. 28, 2015, she would be able to return to court and plead guilty to a misdemeanor possession charge and pay a $400 fine.
In December, 2014, the couple was arrested on theft charges, misuse of identification and violating conditions of release after police said they used a company credit card to make unauthorized purchases.
Charged with felony theft and violating conditions of release, Tabitha Schoubroek is accused of using a company credit card to purchase $5,155.15 worth in debit cards and Villacci was charged with misdemeanor theft and violating the conditions of his release after police say he used the credit card of his former employer to make unauthorized purchases worth $111.81.
Both remain in jail, with bail set for her at $20,000 cash or $40,000 worth of real estate and Villacci $50,000 cash.
Timothy Schoubroek and Sprague were being held without bail pending a court appearance expected today.
The Standish home was the 11th methamphetamine laboratory related incident responded to by MDEA this year.
Those who have information about this incident or the illegal sale of drugs in this state, are urged to contact the MDEA office closest to you or by calling the MDEA tipline at 800-452-6457.
You’ve got to be fricking kidding me.
Aaargh!
So glad to hear that the DHHS system is working so well! Praying for these young children and all involved.
Heads should roll in DHHS. How is this even remotely possible? This is unforgivable. Totally unacceptable. Good on the MDEA for the find. Shame on the system for allowing this to happen.
Well “Tracy” explain …
Tracy
March 28, 2015 • 8:04 pm
The children are safe with family members. The children will be getting help with this. I love them all very much. It is a very hard time for all of us involved. I hate the drugs but love the addicts. The children will have along hard road ahead of them but family will help them thru it. Drugs are everyway, in everyway town and its going to get a lot worst before it gets better. People need to understand what drugs do to people. This is a huge issue.
Tracy
April 2, 2015 • 12:01 pm
I hate the drug but the love the addicts. This is my family and I love them all. The children are safe and we started a gofundme.com for items. The have been set up in a new school. They have been to the doctors and dentist. I am thankful for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department and the MDEA we could off been going to a funeral of 4. The people you see in the pictures are people I don’t know anymore. This monster of a drug has taken them from the children and family. The family has been up to the trailer and its hurts us a lot.
Thank you for the company that helped my parents getting the furnace started and didn’t charge them. This drug war is huge. People should educate themselves of this and what it does to people.
The parents are in the best place they can be right now and they have a long hard road ahead of them.
I am NOT defending them. They made the choice to use. They made the choice to put the children in danger. The parents that I use to know were good parents. I hope and pray someday they will be a family again.
Tracy
April 3, 2015 • 1:26 pm
Totally Disgusted : You have some good points. This drug is a monster that’s the best way I can say it. The bail conditions were drug testing and random search. You cant make them stop using if they don’t want to.
As far as the children go when they get out I cant answer that. I believe they will be serving a long time sentence. The children love their parents. At this point in time we haven’t thought that far ahead. Family is just trying to get the children in school and counseling. We all have a hard road ahead of us. But the children come first and the rest can wait.
For real man ?? This whole case is turning into a round about circus and the poor kids are the ones who are suffering.
And people were on here feeling sorry for these people ,,,,,WTH is wrong with people . leave em in jail …
Tonight’s mug shot infuriates me every time I see it. I’d love to wipe that fricken smirk right off her pathetic face!!!
Those poor children, my heart breaks for them. I hope they have a family member who doesn’t have a criminal record that they can be placed with. If not they should find a foster family back in this area who can take them and get them back in their school with their teachers who care for them and their friends who love them. Bring some healthy “normal” back into their lives.
The system has failed these children miserably.
These poor children with their useless family. Is foster care going to be better? Please, please DHS, don’t screw this up again.
This is one of the saddest stories (ON-GOING with NO happy ending in sight for these poor kids!) I have ever followed on The Bulldog……………
Is there enough welfare money to throw at these kids to make them “whole”? Doubt it. Too much time and expense trying to ‘keep families together’ when The Adults are totally UNworthy!
This sickens me to think that DHHS would place these children with family members without making a visit to check out the conditions of where they would be staying. Especially when the law suspected others were involved with kind of activity.
Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew must go. This shameful debacle was on her watch. Has the media contacted her for an explanation? Has no one held her feet to the fire for her Department’s abject incompetence? If not, why not?
What is going on with DHHS? There are parents out there who aren’t allowed to see their children for minor things than this, but they placed them with a couple who were already arrested for another crime? Really??? Who is thinking of the best interest of these children? Obviously, not DHHS.
Huh.
First I don’t know all the answers. The children are not and were not living with that grandmother. The other grandmother has them. DHS has been involved with the children. I didn’t know that Tim and Tesse were living with Tim’s mother. I only know what I have been told and heard. I wish I could explain better but I don’t know any details. The children were getting into a routine with school and one had started counsiling. I was just blown away with this as I believe we all are. Sorry I don’t have better answers.
most of you wouldn’t know if there was a small lab set-up in your town right under your nose ,i’ve suspected a lab going on now and then at a apt complex in wilton now for months but do the cops know about it ? no ..is there risk involved ? yes, there is . but how do you prove such a thing ? the suspected people have been evicted but they are still here , theres a child in this place part time too . until UNITED WE STAND against the drugs in our towns these labs and other dangerous drugs just keep coming in .
You are so right Woodsnut. UNITED WE STAND, Speak up, Stand up this is a huge problem in all towns.
I don’t know all the details but I heard on the news that when the grandmother discovered that there was a meth lab in the house she took all 5 children from the home and called the police. Sounds like a responsible adult to me.
I feel so bad for the children. I agree something has to change with DHHS and where they place children, I understand they are under funded blah, blah, under staffed blah, blah, but this is unacceptable. This must be another of those gray areas they refer too when they don’t have any real answers
This sort of gray area is exactly what happens when you have an state administration led by a governor that concentrates on ” punishing the poor. DHHS is at an all time low of funding and staff. If you support these cuts and tactics you have to take the responsibility that it will be the children that suffer …over and over again…if you don’t support them..then speak out…get involved…volunteer …vote against it.
woodsnut – I hope that you have contacted authority in that area so they can look into this!!! You can do so anonymously as well!
2013 20 Meth labs
2014 31 Meth labs
2015 11 Meth labs as of today and its only 4/28/2015
Think this is not a problem. Think this is not going on in every town.
State of Maine What are you waiting for? Put those kids in foster care. They deserve a loving, caring home. GOD BLESS the children!!!!!!!
wilton NOT
Hey sad and dreamer people make choices good or bad has nothing to do with admin or the governor or the poor like myself
I needed a good belly laugh this morning. People sicken me. They go about their lives oblivious to the underbelly of the socio-economic struggle and are disgusted when they get a glimpse of it, yet they sit idle while they wait for someone else to solve the problem.
Don, You are correct- People make poor choices. Who chose to but these kids there? Did they do a walk through? Yes Labs can be set up quickly, but really did they look?
Dreamer I have spoken out- I have written to my representatives and the Governor. It gets handed off to someone at DHHS that passes the buck. DHHS, PFA’s PO’s are a joke with all these “gray” areas.