By Doug Fletcher,Staff Writer

For cops, it’s about as routine as it gets.

They knock on an apartment door to check on the welfare of a woman who earlier requested a restraining order against an abusive acquaintance.

The cops – in this case, Lewiston Officers Rob Ullrich and Tom Murphy – get a tip. They ask a few more questions, look into things a bit more.

Soon they’re on the hunt for someone dodging several outstanding arrest warrants.

They follow the lead across the river and with some Auburn counterparts knock on another door, this time at 705 Broad View Apartments in Auburn. There they find their man, hiding inside the apartment.

They ask a few more questions. The answers point them to a zip-lock sandwich bag filled with OxyContin pills.

They ask more questions. Someone tells them there’s a gun in a car that was borrowed the previous evening.

Officers recover the gun. It turns out to be a pellet gun, but looks very real.

The cops review their case. They link some of the information – and some evidence found during a search of the apartment – to a teletype advising area police of an armed robbery in Oxford County at the Rite Aid in Paris on Friday night, the night before police went to the Broad View Apartments.

The Lewiston and Auburn cops call in Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Agent Brian Rose and Violent Crimes Task Force Agent Trevor Campbell to assist in the investigation. They also call in Paris police Sgt. Michael Dailey to help in the robbery investigation.

By Sunday afternoon, Robert T. Judd, 26, of 173 Fayette Road, Fayette, is a temporary guest at the Androscoggin County Jail. He’s being held on a total of $25,900 cash bail on charges of aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs, a Class A offense, trafficking in prison contraband and two warrants alleging nonpayment of fines.

Oxford County charges linked to the Rite Aid armed robbery in Paris are pending as Dailey continues his investigation in the holdup in that town. He spoke with Judd on Sunday about the robbery, said Lewiston cops.

“We actually recovered more pills than were taken from Rite Aid,” Dailey said. “We’re hoping that leads somewhere else.”

“It was good solid police work,” says Lewiston police Lt. Mark Watson of the investigation, “just good solid police work.