Crime & Safety

Alleged Concord Meth Dealer Arrested by State Police

Myranda Clifton was arrested on drug charges after an arrest and search warrant execution of her home earlier today.

CONCORD, NH – New Hampshire State Police have arrested a Lakes Region woman now residing in Concord on a number of drug charges after executing a search warrant at her home, according to a press statement.

Myranda Clifton, 31, of Concord, was arrested on July 12, 2016, for sale of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine, and possession of Suboxone.

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According to an alert, state troopers arrested Clifton after the narcotics and investigations unit eyed her for a single charge of sale of meth, according to state police.

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They then executed a search warrant at her home and more charges were added to the initial charge.

Clifton is being held at the Merrimack County House of Corrections on $5,000 cash bail. She will be arraigned tomorrow morning.

Clifton, according to NH1.com, was arrested along with 22 other people in Laconia earlier this year after a major drug sweep in that city. She was arrested in February 2011 on credit card charges in Laconia, according to Fosters.com, and disobeying a police officer, in Berlin, according to the Daily Sun. She was arrested for second-degree assault and criminal mischief in Laconia in 2013, and disorderly in 2005.

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