CARTHAGE – A Carthage man is accused of trafficking in cocaine and furnishing marijuana after police searched his Goodwin Mill Road home Thursday night and confiscated those drugs.
Franklin County deputies and a drug agent used a search warrant to enter the home and confiscate about 20 grams of cocaine, about a pound of marijuana, $800 in suspected drug proceeds, and drug paraphernalia that included scales and baggies, sheriff’s Lt. Niles Yeaton said Friday.
Deputy Ken Charles arrested Steven Virgin, 55, on felony charges of trafficking in a Scheduled W drug and furnishing a Schedule Z drug, Yeaton said.
Charles had been investigating Virgin for a couple of months and gained enough probable cause to obtain a search warrant, he said.
Six deputies, a police dog named Odin that’s trained in drug detection, and an agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency executed the warrant at Virgin’s home at about 6 p.m.
The cocaine has an estimated street value of $2,000 and was divided into numerous packages, Yeaton said.
The marijuana, also estimated to have a street value of $2,000, was divided into baggies with the bulk of it in a larger plastic bag, he said.
Virgin remained held on $5,000 cash bail Friday afternoon at the Franklin County jail in Farmington.
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