Authorities Arrest Four People in Overnight Drug Raids
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says four people were arrested in overnight raids in Bangor and Dedham.
According to Safety Spokesman Stephen McCausland, authorities seized heroin, oxycodone and over $13,000. The drugs originated from New York and were due to be sold in Penobscot and Hancock counties.
MDEA agents, assisted by Bangor Police and Homeland Security Investigation Agents Thursday night, searched the apartment of 46-year-old Robert Wood Jr. and 34-year-old Nicole Kelley on Langley Street in Bangor. Evidence showed Wood and Kelley were trafficking in the prescription painkiller Oxycodone.
Agents seized eight Oxycodone tablets and $500. Both Wood and Kelley were arrested and transported to the Penobscot County Jail charged with Class B Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs (Oxycodone) and Class C Possession of Schedule W Drugs (Oxycodone).
As part of the same investigation, drug agents and State Police later conducted a search of a lakefront house on Granite Road in Dedham. Authorities seized approximately 15 grams of heroin, 144 Oxycodone tablets, $13,000, and two handguns. The street value of the Oxycodone was $7,200 and authorities believe the heroin would have sold for $4,000.
Charged as a result of the Dedham search were 34-year-old Jerald Hiland of Old Town and 29-year-old Jonathan Baez of Bronx, New York. They face charges of Aggravated Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs (Heroin and Oxycodone), both Class A felonies.
Baez’s charges are elevated due to the guns seized and Hiland’s charges are elevated as the result of a December 2012 drug conviction of Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs for which he received a 4 year sentence, with all but 9 months suspended.
Both Baez and Hiland were transported to the Hancock County Jail and both were due in court today.
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