Naples, ME Traffic Stop Leads to Charge of Aggravated Trafficking of Illegal Drugs and More
by Gino Devaney on
Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle on
Roosevelt Trail in Naples for a suspended registration. During the inventory of the vehicle, the Deputies located a significant amount of illegal narcotics, a firearm and cash. In total, 253 grams of suspected fentanyl, 177 grams of suspected cocaine and 4.8 grams of suspected cocaine base, “crack”, was seized.
The operator,
Ray Atkisson Jr., 37 years old of Norway, was charged with operating with a suspended license, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, aggravated trafficking of fentanyl, aggravated trafficking of cocaine and trafficking of cocaine base.
The Sebago Lake area has a drug problem as the second major drug seizure in the past few weeks happened early Sunday morning.
According to the Cumberland County Sheriff s Department Facebook page, three people were arrested when a Deputy pulled over a vehicle on Route 302 in Naples for a suspended registration. When the Deputy searched the vehicle, they found 253 grams of fentanyl, 177 grams of cocaine and 4.8 grams of crack cocaine and that was just the drugs. In addition there was a firearm and about $1700 in cash, which we re pretty sure they hadn t just taken out an ATM.
37-year-old Ray Atkinson Jr. of Norway was driving the car and he received a whole bunch of charges including operating with a suspended license, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, and trafficking of three different types of narcotics. Jared McClure of Bath, and Molly Farrington of Norway were charges with drug trafficking as well.