AUBURN – A local man accused of selling drugs to high school students pleaded innocent Tuesday and was released on $500 bail.

Scott Tiner, 20, was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with two counts of trafficking marijuana after drug agents raided his home on Park Avenue in Auburn.

Police say Tiner has been selling marijuana and Ecstasy to local youths for at least a year.

According to a police affidavit released Tuesday, drug agents began investigating Tiner after receiving a call from one mother who found Ecstasy in her 14-year-old daughter’s room and a local father who knew about a situation in which another young girl went to the hospital after taking Ecstasy.

Ecstasy is a synthetic, psychoactive drug chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The girl who went to the hospital was interviewed by police in September 2003. According to the affidavit, she admitted that Tiner was her boyfriend and that they had a sexual relationship.

She also said that Tiner had been giving Ecstasy to her and her friend, who was the same girl whose mother called police earlier, the affidavit says.

Police continued to investigate Tiner and they eventually sent a confidential informant to his home to buy drugs. Equipped with an electronic listening device, the informant bought a half-ounce of marijuana on April 7, then bought another half-ounce last Thursday, the affidavit says.

Investigators said they confiscated scales, drug paraphernalia and $750 in drug money from Tiner’s home Monday.

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