BANGOR, Maine – A fourth suspect was in jail Sunday in connection with a sting that was part of an 18-month police investigation into heroin and cocaine sales in the Bangor area.
Lindsay Mathews, 18, of Bangor, was charged Friday with Class A Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs. She was being held at Penobscot County Jail on a $100,000 cash bail, an official said.
Mathews is believed to be the girlfriend of Miguel Nonossi, a Connecticut native and convicted drug dealer who was staying with her at 69 Ohio St. when police and Maine Drug Enforcement agents raided apartments there on Wednesday, said Peter Arno, MDEA northern commander, on Friday.
Nonossi, 25, Ymmar Dockery, 30, and Marguis Hines, 26, all of New Haven, Connecticut, were found with 7 ounces of heroin, 4 ounces of crack cocaine, more than $15,000 in cash and three guns by a team of Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Bangor Police Department personnel, Arno has said.
Nonossi is facing two counts of Class A aggravated trafficking in schedule drugs; Dockery was charged with one count of Class A aggravated trafficking in schedule drugs; and Hines is facing four counts of Class A aggravated trafficking in schedule drugs and two counts of Class B unlawful possession of a scheduled drug.
The three have numerous prior felony drug trafficking or drug-related convictions. Nonossi and Dockery were on probation, prosecutors said.
The arrests came after an undercover investigation in which heroin and crack cocaine was purchased from the suspects at the Ohio Street apartment building. Investigators served search warrants at two apartments there on Wednesday. The seized drugs’ street value is about $40,000, Arno has said.
Arno said the seizures were part of a “troubling trend of out-of-state drug traffickers” moving into Maine to sell drugs.
District Court Judge Bruce Jordan set a $300,000 surety bail on the Connecticut men during the trio’s first appearances at the Penobscot Judicial Center on Friday.
Mathews is due in court on Monday. The three men are due in court on May 6, a jail worker said.