Left to right: Alamin McMillon, Nakota Lame and Tammy Fairbairn. Photos from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
A local mother and daughter and a Syracuse man were arrested in the tiny Delaware County hamlet of Bloomville last Thursday, after 130 bags of heroin were found in a search of a Bloomville home.
Arrested on Thursday, Nov. 14 were 46-year-old Tammy Fairbairn and 20-year-old Nakota Lame of Bloomville, and 26-year-old Alamin McMillon of Syracuse. Police had obtained a search warrant for Fairbairn's home after an investigation by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
The search was carried out by Delaware County law enforcement, including the county's new K-9, "Ozzie," with help from a Chenango County K-9 unit and New York State Police narcotics investigators. Along with the 130 bags of heroin, police seized about $1,100 in cash and public assistance benefits cards.
All three stand accused of possessing heroin with the intent to sell. Each of the arrestees faces one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class B felony. Police say additional charges may be filed.
The three were arraigned before Kortright town judge Yvonne Pagillo and remanded to the Delaware County jail. Fairbairn and Lame were held in lieu of $20,000 cash bail each, and McMillon was held in lieu of $30,000 cash bail.
Even in the most rural parts of the Catskills, the drug trade is flourishing. The Delaware County Sheriff's Office has repeatedly told local news media and elected officials that drug-related crime is on the rise in recent years, especially heroin and black-market prescription drug sales. Bloomville is a tiny hamlet in the 1,675-person town of Kortright.
