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DOVER - A former Milton man with a long rap sheet and history of drug abuse will spend three to four months in Strafford County Jail on a fentanyl possession charge and won't be released until he can get re-entered into the county's drug court program.
Craig Wiggin, 37, formerly of 31B Kingsbury Drive, Milton, pleaded guilty to fentanyl possession in connection with a March 2 arrest when U.S. Marshalls picked him up on a sex offender Duty to Inform violation and found some seven grams of fentanyl on him.
Wiggin along with another man, were taken into custody at 12 Colby St., Rochester, after police say officers witnessed Wiggin throw bags of drugs into a puddle in an attempt to conceal them. Also found in Wiggin's possession were plastic baggies and a digital scale. He was also currently in violation of his supervision agreement with Strafford County Community Corrections.
Wiggin, a couple of weeks prior to the March arrest had been living in Somersworth when he decided to stop going to drug court as required, County Attorney Tom Velardi said on Tuesday after the sentencing.
Wiggin then moved to Rochester and failed to report his change of address within five business days leading to the arrest.
On Tuesday he agreed to a plea deal that will put him in jail for 90-120 days, Velardi said, given that Wiggin already had 115 days pretrial confinement credit from the March arrest date.
A two- to four-year felony sentence for heroin possession was suspended for three years.
"Most of his problems are drug related," Velardi said. "Until he left the drug court in February he was doing pretty good."
Wiggin can begin the application process to get back into drug court immediately, but it likely won't be granted for three to four months, since he had just been terminated from the program.
When he was living in Milton in 2014 Wiggin was arrested for duty to inform, forgery, simple assault and heroin possession.
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