AUGUSTA (AP) – A corrections officer at the Maine State Prison in Warren was arrested in the Turnpike Mall parking lot Thursday morning on a felony charge of aggravated trafficking in heroin, authorities said.

The arrest of Sean Greenleaf, 32, of Fairfield, came after a two-month investigation into narcotics smuggling at the prison, according to a statement issued by Roy McKinney, the director of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, and George Connick, special agent supervisor of the Augusta Task Force Office serving Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and Waldo Counties.

Officials said the investigation was conducted by the MDEA and investigators from the Department of Corrections.

According to the announcement by McKinney and Connick, investigators had received information that a corrections officer working at the state prison was smuggling drugs to inmates.

The officials said investigators used an undercover drug agent who Greenleaf contacted and the agent arranged to meet him in the shopping center parking lot.

The officials said Greenleaf, who had been employed at the prison since February, was to receive 9 grams of heroin, packaged in four balloons, and an ounce and a half of marijuana. MDEA agents arrested Greenleaf with the assistance of Augusta Police and the Department of Corrections as he took possession of the heroin.

and marijuana, officials said.

Greenleaf was processed at the Augusta Police Department, where he made bail, Connick said.

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