According to the Wiscasset Police Department facebook page, an officer was "stuck with (a) used heroin laced needle" while doing a search at the Wiscasset Elementary School parking lot, Sunday, Sept. 10.
Tyler Collins, clearly a gifted genius, allegedly placed a phone call to someone that he thought was a potential buyer of Suboxone, a scheduled drug. He actually had a police officer on the other end of the phone. Whoops.
Officers from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Maine State Police made several arrests today (April 28) in connection with an investigation into the interstate trafficking of heroin and cocaine in greater Rumford-Mexico.
An Augusta man and a man from New York were arrested yesterday (Nov. 23) in Augusta on drug charges.
The Augusta Police Department, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, Maine State Police and City Code Enforcement Officers executed a search warrant at 117 Bridge Street...
Jackson Laboratory will receive nearly $12 million in federal money to pay for its new center that will study drug addiction.
The lab's new facility in Bar Harbor will be called the Center for System Neurogenetics of Addiction. It will study mice to see what traits predispose them to drug addiction and use those findings to inform research into human addiction...
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested four people in Winthrop this week for their roles in trafficking heroin throughout Kennebec County. This was a investigation among the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency's South Central Task Force in Augusta, the Winthrop Police Department, the Monmouth Police Department, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police.