FARMINGTON — A Canadian couple were arrested late Monday at the Coburn Gore border crossing after border patrol agents found $70,000 worth of drugs inside their car.
Jason White, 40, and Amber Baird, 21, of Stephenville, Newfoundland, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of possession in Farmington after Maine State Police arrested them and took them to the Franklin County Detention Center.
Maine Drug Enforcement agents say the couple was following their GPS system back to Newfoundland. It showed the quickest route took them through Maine but it didn’t show the remote border crossing between Canada and the United States at Coburn Gore where their car could be searched.
MDEA found a pound and a half of cocaine and 1,875 ecstasy pills, with a combined street value of $70,000, in White’s 2000 BMW 528i.
Baird was charged with trafficking in cocaine, ecstasy, possession of hashish and illegal importation. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $5,000.
White was charged with possessing cocaine and hashish and also pleaded guilty. He was fined $750 and forfeited his car valued at $6,000, according to police. White was released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Wednesday and was transported to the Canadian border.
Coburn Gore is along Route 27 in Franklin County, about an hour north of the Sugarloaf ski resort. Federal agents from Customs and Border Protection and the ICE assisted with the seizure and arrests.
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