Tuesday’s Windham Town Council meeting featured the authorization of the transfer of drug money and guns to the town from the police department’s evidence room.
The four weapons, a .30-06 rifle, 12-gauge shotgun, .22 pistol and a semiautomatic rifle, were seized from convicted marijuana-grower Wayne Jeffords, of Edith Jeffords Road in Windham last August. Jeffords was already a convicted felon and not allowed to possess firearms.
“We do keep a few weapons for display purposes,” said Police Chief Rick Lewsen, adding that Jeffords’ guns are all destined for the band saw in the public works garage. He said that confiscated guns could not be used by the department because they may be linked to a crime in the past or kept in an improper condition.
Also transferred at the meeting was a sum of $1,200 seized from Garret Michaud, of Portland, last October. He was found with the money and eight plastic bags of cocaine in a traffic stop and charged with aggravated trafficking of narcotics.
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