Shawne Gardner was allegedly selling Percocet, Vicodin and Valium.
By Terry Karkos
Staff Writer

PARIS – A Rumford man pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday in Superior Court on multiple felony trafficking charges involving prescription painkillers.

After failing to post either $25,000 cash or $200,000 surety bail, Shawne Randall Gardner, 29, was transported to Oxford County jail.

Gardner, who was arrested on Dec. 17 at his apartment in Rumford by Maine Drug Enforcement agent Tony Milligan during execution of a search warrant, was indicted by an Oxford County grand jury on Jan. 15.

He was charged with:

• Two Class A counts of aggravated trafficking in OxyCodone and Hydrocodone. The charges are considered aggravated because he was allegedly selling the drugs within 1,000 feet of a school zone, that being St. Athanasius and St. John School on Franklin Street.

• One count of Class C aggravated trafficking in Diazepam.

• Three counts of Class C acquiring drugs by deception. Those drugs were OxyCodone, Hydrocodone and Diazepam.

• One count of violating conditions of release, stemming from last spring, when he was arrested for aggravated trafficking in marijuana.

According to Milligan, Gardner was allegedly selling Percocet, the trade name

for OxyCodone, Vicodin and Valium, the trade name for Diazepam, an anti-anxiety agent.

Vicodin is a narcotic analgesic and cough reliever for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain.

At the time of his arrest, Milligan said Gardner was “arrested for exactly the same thing he was arrested for last spring, except he moved to another school zone to do exactly the same thing.”

tkarkos@sunjournal.com

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