BANGOR, Maine — Christopher Gray, a 26-year-old transient without any permanent address, faces aggravated drug trafficking charges after an Aug. 28 arrest led to multiple charges.
Gray was arrested by Old Town police officer Lori Renzullo on Kossuth Street in Bangor at 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28 and charged with two counts of aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs (Oxycodone) and refusal to submit to an officer.
The drug charges were elevated to aggravated due to a prior felony drug conviction for Gray.
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Darrell Crandall said no other details would be available at press time Thursday.
Sure is alot of transients living in the bottom of a pill bottle.
Sure are a lot of people living in the bottom of a pill bottle. Lots of people from Maine, too. Maybe thats because Maine has the highest opiate addiction rate in the country. Maybe the state lures people here to feed its unquenchable thirst. Huh, a strange though, isn’t it?
I’ve been reading a lot about a ‘Christopher Grey” …must be a different guy!
That’s Christian, silly!
If there is a demand the supply will come.
Let’s keep adding methadone clinics because things have been so much better since this city did, NOT. Bangor is becoming the outhouse of central and northern Maine. It is going to get worse before it gets better if we don’t make some drastic unpopular choices in a hurry.
I totally agree, get rid of ALL them! And while their at it, bring back the chain gangs!
Most people don’t even know what methadone is, you are obviously in the majority. Imagine what this area would be like without treatment centers? If you guessed much worse you got it right
Can I have some of that Koolaid please?
I agree with you Bush…this person is obviously a patient as well as an abuser of these digusting places that call themselves TREATMENT centers….swapping one drug for another is not healing…its compounding the problem, making it legal and bring a whole bunch of people from down south way up north…Get them out and shut em down…ALL of em.
Im not a patient nor an abuser, but I will tell you that if you shut the clinics down, everything is going to get worse. The junkies who are maintained on government dope, without their government dope, are going to start going off the deep end. You think the pharmacy robberies are bad, now? Ha. If they are not on the governments dope, then who’s?
The clinics are a good idea (but because they are run like a business) in actual practice they are not helpful for the community. Ahh, the joy of Capitalism…
And, Im not sure where people get the idea that half the country flocks to Bangor for its clinic. You really think there are no other clinics in the country? And you do know the clinic isnt free, right? People have to pay for their legal dope. It just isnt given out to anyone who walks through the door.
Mainecare pays for approx. 85% of the methadone treatments. $8 million alone for transportation costs. So taxpayers pay for most of it.
Well I agree with you on all counts. They are not treatment centers, they are legalized drug dealers of the most dangerous drug of all. You are also right, garbage is all these places attract. Then this garbage clutters up our streets, shelters and neighborhoods so drugged up most of them aren’t in their right mind. Sprinkle a little monkey dust on top and a dangerous individual is now walking the streets. One of many reasons why I always carry and am ready and trained to use.
No, but if you follow me to this place called Jonestown you can have some Koolaid.
I wonder, do you always resort to ad hominem’s because you find it amusing, or because you are intellectually stunted and happen to be lacking a booster seat?
Oh, silly Bushfan.
My Latin is a little rusty but to answer your question…oh nevermind, it would be too much to digest.
What did we do before the clinics? They haven’t been around here for that long. I recall life around here wasn’t too bad.
without the clinics the addicts will be robbing homes possible yours…just saying. I rather have the clinics instead of them robbing my mother, aunts or grandmother. The odds are a lot better having clinics.
One time. They would rob me one time only.
Seriously Mindy, we are being robbed anyway in more ways than one by the junkies. Most of them still rob homes and pharmacies to feed other habits or for cash to support other addictions. They call them junkies because they turn to junk once addicted. The only way they get a quality of life back is to go the tough route and just say no and stay clean. I am sure it’s hard but they brought this on themselves. Plus, opiate withdrawals will not kill them.
So you suggest giving the criminal what they want so they will leave you alone and go away? Really Mindy? If someone makes you fear them you will do what they want if they just go away? So by that rational when you stop giving them what they want they strike on the ones that used to take care of them? That sums up a a drug addict alright, not someone in recovery.
Methadone is evil and having clinics in a community is a total waste and a risk to everyone living in that community. Bangor needs to get rid of these drug clinics and in a hurry.
The BDN now needs a single page in each day’s paper just to list all the drug related arrests/convictions/released on bail – arrested again same day!
I am happy to see that a lot of people have been getting busted lately so it looks like the Police are doing ok at their jobs, but from the look of things the judicial system is failing miserably. A large amount of the articles I read about people being busted are for people that are repeat offenders. Obviously the punishment is not harsh enough if people continue to do these things. I think we need to lock all these people up for a long time, put them to work (hard labor) rather than importing migrant workers. Something needs to change because what we are doing now is obviously not working.
Prison isn’t really a punishment anymore. They get what they want, when they want it. If Jails and prisons started treating them like criminals and gave them actual consequences, maybe these scumbags would get the picture. Winter is coming and the jails and prisons will fill back up. I can’t, in my wildest imagination figure out what has happened to the judicial system, You are absolutely right, it isn’t working!!
Meanwhile, Mass. taxpayers are on the hook for a sex change operation for a wife murderer! The judge says that to not do so amounts to cruel and unusual punishment! Can you say “coddled”?
The judges always seem to forget about these murder victims. What kind of cruel and unusual punishment Did this murder’s wife go through while she was being murdered?
I’ve posted once and I’ll post it again. We should run our prisons like they are run in Mexico,South America and Russia. Treat them like they should be treated. Forget the bleeding hearts and remember the victims of their crimes.
Have you ever been convicted of a crime and served time in jail or prison?
I chose not to, but I see it every day.
Do you? Then I assume you work for the department of corrections? Because if you do not, then you really have no idea about the judicial system, or jail, so therefore are not really in any position to be making these sort of claims. Jail is soft, says someone who has never been there.
Like I said, I see it everyday. If it was hard and so bad, these people would not want to keep going back….Unless of course, they are really stupid.
I have to agree. You couldnt pay me to be a cop in this state. They lock em up and the courts and the greedy lawyers have em out to do it all over again.. They system is scarey. Why would these men and women who are cops want to risk their lives to deal with this filth…I just dont get it.
Who was he selling to? It sounds like he just had some in his pocket. Either they inflate the charges or they aren’t releasing the important details. This is how we fill our prisons; a guy has something in his pocket and they make him out to be a trafficker and get to take care of him for x months. We can’t afford this.
Why did an Old Town officer arrest some one in Bangor? Did I miss something?
I noticed something similar the other day when a Veazie officer arrested some kid at that huge party in Orono. They all must have some sort of inter-agency agreement, not a bad thing since it should keep these small towns from hiring more cops and jacking up mill rates. Veazie and Orono already have way too many cops per taxpayer, Hampden too
I wonder if he reported the income from drug sales when he is applied for welfare benefits ? That would be a good opportunity for another criminal charge…welfare fraud.