ELLSWORTH, Maine — Police arrested three men here this week after a three-month investigation into the distribution of narcotic prescription pills.
The trio was arrested Wednesday at a Deane Street apartment where agents seized a handgun, shotgun, a small quantity of suspected LSD and ecstasy, more than 180 oxycodone pills and $8,000 in cash, according to Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Supervisor Corey Bagley. He estimated the street value of the drugs at more than $5,400.
Scott E. Conlin, 37, of Ellsworth and Melvin L. Reynolds, 30, of Bronx, N.Y., each have been charged with unlawful trafficking in schedule W drugs (oxycodone), while Timothy D. Kane, 27, of Trenton has been charged with failure to appear in court.
Conlin and Reynolds are now free on bail and Kane remains in Hancock County Jail.
Bagley said that the sale of narcotic painkillers such as oxycodone is a significant problem in Hancock County and throughout the state.
He said the investigation will continue with additional charges and arrests likely.
Ellsworth police also assisted in the arrests.
Great job officers!! Keep up the great work and hope you keep getting more of the bums off the street. Just need to keep them in jail and not back on the streets, with a slap on the wrist so they can continue their bad ways
And to get rid of the users that make it all so profitable.
meanwhile the doctors just keep prescribing them.
Not in Ellswath!
Hooda thunk it?
We need to make all drugs legal, that will do away with the big cartels, the local pushers, and those gangs fighting over turf. It could be taxed, thereby allowing the drug users to support all the programs to help them. The taxpayers, who do not use drugs, should not have to pay this cost. Try it for a year or so, then if it does not work, we could always go back to this failed system. The Feds., have been trying to stop this for over 45 years, and look what they have today. MUCH WORSE. Take the money out of it for the Judicial System, and bingo, its over.
Please run for office hobo….you have my vote ! Supply and demand will always make available what is in demand….these dealers could care less about legal, or jail, or whose families they hurt….it is easy $ in their pockets. The dollar will always drive them to insane behavior. Who is gaining from this drug income generated at the cost of innocent lives ? It does circulate big $ in our local economy…..where our minimum wage jobs are never going to get anyone out of poverty level. Time for the working Mainers to fight back !
Just wait until the low income housing units open up on Water Street!
Go away Melvin…..Bronx? Yeah….just what we want here in what used to be a safe state.
Melvin don’t look Italian… What part of the Bronx is he froms yo’s.
MDEA Don’t stop with these three. There are plenty more of these types of people out there in our little town. Keep going and don’t stop our childrens lives depend on getting this place cleaned up.
the 3 stouges