A Pittsfield, Mass. man and a Warren man face felony drug trafficking charges after a bust in Newcastle, Warren, and Wiscasset Monday afternoon, Dec. 29.
The arrests were the result of a three-month Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into the sale of oxycodone and other prescription drugs in Knox and Lincoln counties.
Monday afternoon, agents conducted a traffic stop in Newcastle. The driver, Allen Cooper, 37, of Pittsfield, Mass., allegedly had 90 30-milligram oxycodone pills “hidden” in his possession.
“Cooper would routinely travel to Maine from Massachusetts with oxycodone and would deliver the drugs to his distributors in the Midcoast, collect his profits, and return to Massachusetts,” Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said in a press release.
Agents simultaneously searched a Wiscasset motel room, where they arrested Cooper’s girlfriend, Amanda Restel, 33, of Pittsfield, Mass., who was allegedly in possession of Suboxone.
A third search of the Warren residence of Robert Colpritt, 36, turned up another 22 30-milligram oxycodone pills, as well as more Suboxone and “numerous other medications,” according to the press release.
Colpritt and Cooper face a class B charge of trafficking in schedule W drugs (oxycodone), a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Restel faces a class D charge of possession of schedule W drugs (Suboxone), a misdemeanor punishable by up to 364 days in jail.
Colpritt, Cooper, and Restel were transported to Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.
The Knox and Lincoln County sheriff’s offices, the Maine State Police, and the Wiscasset Police Department assisted the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
