Maine Couple Arrested for Selling Fentanyl in a School Zone
When you think of the small Western Maine town of Rumford, the term drug drive-through probably doesn t come to mind. However, according to the town s Chief of Police, that s exactly what was happening at one home.
According to WABI TV 5, Thursday morning on Kerr Street in Rumford, authorities took 38-year-old Matthew Bellegarde and 28-year-old Shannon Long into custody. The pair were charged with aggravated trafficking in fentanyl. Kerr Street is located just a few hundred yards from the Pennacook Learning Center.
Following a long drug investigation, agents from the US Border Patrol, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, Maine State Police and Rumford Police, entered the home on Kerr street Thursday morning. Upon their search investigators collected digital drug scales, packing materials, around 43 grams of probable fentanyl and $3,640 in what they re calling drug proceeds .
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RUMFORD A couple was arrested Thursday morning at their home at 58 Kerr St. after police found over 500 doses of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, there, Police Chief Tony Milligan said.
Forty-three grams of the drug, which is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, were seized from the house occupied by Matthew Bellegarde, 38, and his live-in companion Shannon Long, 28, the chief said.
Each was charged with aggravated trafficking in fentanyl and taken to the Oxford County Jail in Paris.
Matthew Bellegarde and Shannon Long
Rumford Police Department photo
Milligan said for months police and drug investigators had been receiving information from a number of sources, including community members, of an inordinate amount of traffic coming in and out of 58 Kerr St. Police also learned Bellegarde and Long had been selling fentanyl out of the home, he said.