LEWISTON – A Lewiston woman remained jailed on Thursday, two weeks after she was arrested on drug charges and accused of participating in an organized ring that traffics cocaine throughout the area.

Jacqueline Calhoun, 37, of 135 Bartlett St., was arrested on three counts of aggravated trafficking in crack cocaine, two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and a charge of violating probation.

Calhoun, also known as Pudgy, was served with a warrant on July 7 while she was already serving time at the Androscoggin County Jail. Police said she was arrested as a result of a three-month investigation into the local drug trade.

When she was charged, Calhoun was already serving time after a conviction for furnishing crack in 2004, according to Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Supervisor Gerry Baril.

In April while still on probation and prohibited from possessing, using or distributing drugs, Calhoun sold crack cocaine to an MDEA informant, Baril said.

He said that on two separate occasions in June, Calhoun again sold crack cocaine to an MDEA informant. In one of the incidents, Calhoun used a 15-year-old boy, who was a friend of the family, to assist in the drug transaction, Baril said.

On another occasion she used her 15-year-old niece to deliver crack cocaine concealed inside her mouth, according to police reports.

On the third count of aggravated trafficking, Calhoun was charged with dealing crack after having been convicted of a drug felony in 2004. All of the offenses occurred while she was still serving her period of probation, according to Baril.

Calhoun was one of several local suspects implicated in a Jamaican drug trafficking investigation in 2003. That investigation resulted in the arrest and conviction of a former Bates College professor along with more than a dozen other suspects from Androscoggin and Kennebec counties.