Maine Drug Enforcement agents charged Laura Taylor in June.
By Donna M. Perry
Staff Writer

SOUTH PARIS – A couple, whose last known address was a Farmington campground, was recently indicted on drug and child endangerment charges.

Laura Ann Martin Taylor, 43, and her husband, Billy Wayne Taylor, 34, formerly of South and North Carolina, were each indicted Aug. 29 by an Oxford County grand jury on seven counts of acquiring drugs by deception and one count each of endangering the welfare of a child.

Maine Drug Enforcement agents charged Laura Taylor in June on drug charges after she allegedly falsely complained of pain or an ailment in a scam to get health care providers in Lewiston, Rumford and Bethel to provide prescriptions for anti-depressants and pain killers.

In June, drug investigators said on several occasions the suspect brought her 9-year-old daughter with her to doctors’ offices in an attempt to get additional drugs prescribed. Laura Taylor would then allegedly have prescriptions filled for pain killer Vidocin and sedative Valium at pharmacies in Rumford and Mexico.

Drug agents had executed a search warrant in June at the Taylor’s camper set up at Stony Brook Campground in Hanover where the couple had been staying for a brief time.

Taylor’s husband was later charged with endangering the welfare of a child and was indicted last month on drug charges.

On the Aug. 29 indictment, the couple’s address was listed as Twin Pond Motel and Campground in Farmington. A spokesperson there said the couple left that site in late July, early August.

During the initial investigation the couple’s daughter was temporarily put in state custody.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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