Glenburn Man Arrested In Hermon Wednesday After Failing To Report To Jail To Serve Time

A man from Glenburn was arrested in Hermon on Wednesday afternoon, after he failed to show up at the jail to serve his time.

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The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office says 41-year old Donald Searway was sentenced to two years in jail at the end of last September. He was supposed to turn himself in, but never showed. That's when authorities went looking for him, but they didn't have to look far.

"Detectives and Patrol Deputies observed Searway in a vehicle on Union Street in Hermon and eventually stopped the vehicle on Billings Road in Hermon. During the traffic stop, Searway was immediately arrested on active warrants. Additionally, Searway was charged with Unlawful Possession of Schedule W Drugs (fentanyl) and held on a probation violation."

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The man who had been riding with Searway, 47-year-old Curt Leighton, from Corinth, was also charged with drug possession for allegedly having Fentanyl on him, too.

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This was not the only drug-related activity to occur in Hermon on Wednesday. Sheriff's Deputies, along with members of multiple law enforcement agencies, arrested multiple other individuals after a drug bust at a home on Crogan Road yielded half a kilo of crack, meth, and fentanyl.

Law enforcement agencies across the state have been cracking down on drug trafficking operations across Maine. Penobscot County Sheriff Troy Morton says authorities will continue to go after those selling and buying drugs in our area.

"The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office continues to fight the influx of dangerous drugs being imported into our communities and sold to our citizens by drug traffickers."