STANDISH — Two young children removed from their mother’s home in New Sharon last month after she was charged with trafficking in methamphetamine were removed last weekend from the home where their father was staying after he also was charged with trafficking in meth.

According to a written statement from Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland, the 6- and 8-year-old children had been placed with their grandmother in Standish after their mother’s arrest on March 27, and were living on the second floor of that home with their grandmother and three other children.

According to police, the children’s father, Timothy Schoubroek, 32, and Tressa Sprague, 35, were operating a meth lab on the first floor of that house at 1 Woodland Ave. in Standish.

On Saturday, police were called to the home in response to a report of a family disturbance and, while there, uncovered a suspected meth lab. According to McCausland, members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team found two “one pot” labs while searching inside the house, and found two older labs discarded outside along the wood line of the property.

Schoubroek and Sprague were charged with trafficking in meth, a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and violating conditions of release on a pending theft charge, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.

Both were transported to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland, where they were being held without bail pending a court appearance Monday.

According to McCausland, additional charges of endangering the welfare of a child are being considered, and the Department of Health and Human Services has been contacted regarding care of the children.

On March 27, the children’s mother, Tabitha Schoubroek, 30, and her fiance, Daniel Villacci, 38, were charged with trafficking in meth and endangering the welfare of a child after agents from the MDEA and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department went to the Villacci-Schoubroek home on Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon after receiving a tip from the Farmington police.

At the time, Villacci was out on bail on previous drug charges, according to Sun Journal records.

Villacci and Schoubroek both have criminal histories, according to court records, and were each charged with possessing heroin last summer after a group of children found them unconscious inside their New Sharon home.

Saturday’s incident marks the 11th meth lab drug agents have uncovered this year, including the New Sharon lab involving Tabitha Schoubroek.

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