ALFRED — John Durfee, 67 and his wife Nancy, 60, an Alfred couple who have had some infamous brushes with the law, were charged with drug possession Thursday after 4.4 grams of the hallucinogen PCP was found in their car at the Kittery Information Center off the Maine Turnpike.

Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency charged the pair after their sport utility vehicle was spotted by state troopers and pulled over.

The Durfees made the news last fall after Nancy Durfee was found unconscious on the lawn of a house in Eliot and witnesses reported seeing John Durfee’s Chevrolet Equinox leaving the area. John Durfee later was charged with eluding police after he allegedly failed to stop during a police pursuit.

John Durfee also figured signficantly in the murder trial of Jason Twardus, convicted of killing his ex-fiance Kelly Gorham in 2007. Gorham was a tenant of Durfee’s and he was one of the last people to see her alive.

Her body was found on Twardus’ father’s property in northern New Hampshire. Part of Twardus’ defense was that Durfee was a logical suspect in the murder.

During the trial, Durfee, who has a lengthy criminal history, admitted to a decades-long addiction to PCP.

In December, Durfee was among a group of people found late at night at a Westbrook strip club, Dreamers Cabaret, that was not supposed to be operating and was ostensibly undergoing renovations.

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