Bedford Man Faces Drug Charges After Concord Defective Window Stop

CONCORD, NH — A man from Bedford was arrested on drug charges in late December 2023 after an early morning traffic stop in Penacook.

Just before 1 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2023, an officer patrolling Hoit Road spotted a Hyundai Sonata with a defective rear passenger side window in the roundabout. The window, the officer wrote, was covered with tape. The car exited the roundabout onto Whitney Road and pulled into the Xtramart parking lot. There, the officer stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, Brandon M. Miville, 42, of Tiffany Lane.

“While standing at the driver's door, the driver put down the window,” the officer wrote. “I noticed the driver’s eyes were bloodshot and glossy. I additionally observed the driver's pupils were dilated. Based on my training and experience, illicit drug usage such as methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana can cause a pupil to dilate.”

The officer, in the report, said they noticed a can of butane fluid in the passenger backseat pocket and Ziploc bags tucked in the back rear passenger door pocket. There was also a machete on the floor of the passenger side, the report said. The officer also remarked the car did not appear to have an inspection sticker on the windshield.

The officer spoke with Miville about the uninspected car and whether he had engaged in using methamphetamine. He was accused of admitting to using the drug around noon the day before. Miville was asked whether he dealt meth and he was accused of saying he was only a user.

When pressed, Miville was accused of admitting to possessing a small amount of meth. He retrieved two small bags from under the driver’s seat, which contained a baggie of marijuana, a glass bubble pipe with residue, and a long glass crack pipe, and a second which had a crystal substance, the report stated.

Later, Miville said he was trying to get into treatment and was having relationship issues, specifically, not being allowed to see a child, an affidavit said.

Miville was given a field sobriety test, which he passed, the report stated. He was then arrested on felony possession of a controlled drug and transport drugs in a motor vehicle charges, as well as a defective equipment violation. Miville was arraigned on Jan. 11 and was indicted on Feb. 14. He’s due back in Merrimack County Superior Court for a dispositional conference on March 13.

According to superior court records, Miville pleaded guilty to a felony drug possession charge out of Manchester in April 2019. He received a 12 month sentence, all suspended for three years, and a $600 fine. In October 2003, he was accused of three counts of aggravated driving while intoxicated in Bedford. He was charged in July 2004. In January 2005, he pleaded guilty to two counts.

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