Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Waldoboro Police Department personnel seized narcotics, a loaded handgun, and $1,800 in cash during the arrests of two convicted felons from Massachusetts in a Waldoboro parking lot the afternoon of Wednesday, March 15.
Cameron Soto, 34, of Bedford, Mass., faces a charge of class A aggravated trafficking in schedule W drugs (heroin/fentanyl), according to a press release from Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland. Trevor Teves, 18, of Bedford, Mass., faces a charge of class C possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
The arrests follow a month-long investigation by MDEA’s Midcoast District Task Force, along with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Rockland Police Department, into Soto’s involvement with the distribution of heroin/fentanyl and cocaine in Knox County.
Soto was released from the Maine State Prison earlier this year after serving a sentence for a 2013 conviction of aggravated trafficking in oxycodone.
Soto and Teves were preparing to travel to Massachusetts at the time of their arrests.
Agents seized about 6 grams of heroin/fentanyl, scales, and $1,800 in cash, suspected to be proceeds from drug sales, according to McCausland. Teves was arrested after police found a loaded 9mm handgun in his pocket.
Soto and Teves were taken to Knox County Jail in Rockland, where bail was set at $25,000 cash for Soto and $1,000 cash for Teves.
