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The Maine Drug Enforcement Agencysays five people were arrested Thursday afternoon in Bethel and Newry on chargesof sellingOxyContin.
At 11 A.M. Thursday, MDEA agents and officers of the Bethel Police Department executed an arrest and search warrant at 237 West Bethel Rd (US Route 2) in Bethel, where BRADY WILSON (22) was living in the garage apartment attached to his parent’s house. A second team of MDEA agents, with Bethel and State Policeservedanother search warrant at 770 Bear River Rd. (Rt. 26) in Newry, where NICOLE TERRY (27) and KRYSTAL DILL (22) reside together in an apartment above a three-bay garage .
In Bethel, the officers founda small marijuana growing room with 24 budding marijuana plants undergrowing lights. In the first floor bedroom, officers found a pill crusher and several used plastic straws commonly used for “snorting” the ground up tablets. Seven Zoloft® tablets in a plastic baggy and one Suboxone® tablet inside the pill crusher were seized. An assortment of cultivation equipment includingfour strippedmarijuana stalks, marijuana pipes and bongs and residual amounts of marijuana were also seized. BRADY WILSON, also known as GUMP, was charged with two counts of Class B Trafficking in OxyContin® and transported to the Oxford County Jail in South Paris where he was booked and then released on $2500 bail. A laptop computer, believed to have been stolen from an area school was also found in Wilson's bedroom. Additional chargesare likely to be lodged against Wilson later. Wilson's arrestfollowed two recent sales of OxyContin tabletsin a police undercover operation .
In Newry, officers seized a variety of OxyContin®, Percocet® and Ecstasy tablets, along with $700. Officers also found two handguns. NICOLE “NIKKI” TERRY who is on probationin Florida for prior drug offenses, was charged with two counts of Class A Aggravated Trafficking in OxyContin® and transported to the Oxford County Jail in South Paris. A few hours later, Terry's roommate, KRYSTAL DILL, was arrested at the Bethel Police Department and charged with Class A Aggravated Trafficking in OxyContin®, andalso booked at thecounty jail.Based upon the evidence uncovered at thehome,drug agents say TERRY and DILL have been importing and distributingbetween $10,000and $15,000 worth of prescriptionpillsin Oxford County monthly .
When the officers arrived at the Newry address, they interrupted a drugsale underway in the driveway, between TERRY and MEGAN MANSON (19) of South Paris. After taking the two women into custody, officers discovered that Manson's boyfriend, KEVIN LITCHFIELD (21) of Oxford, was hiding inside the trunk of Manson's Subaru. He had accompanied Manson to Newryin hopes of buying OxyContin. Both MANSON and LITCHFIELD were also charged with Class B Trafficking in OxyContin and they also were Oxford Jail.
The arrestswere spear-headed by separate investigations by Bethel and Oxford Policein response to citizen complaints of increased abuse of prescription pills furnishedby a man knownlocally as “GUMP”.