LIVERMORE FALLS – Police ended up chasing two Jay men into the woods off Foundry Road early Thursday after someone reported seeing two men chasing another one and hearing a threat.

One of the Jay men now faces criminal drug charges and the other a civil drug charge.

When police arrived after the 1:45 a.m. report on Foundry Road, located behind the police station, two men had fled into the woods on foot while a third stayed where he was, police officer Joe Sage said Thursday.

Sage said he chased one of them, who, it was discovered, hadn’t committed a crime but was running because he was scared. He was let go.

Officer Eric Bernier chased the other man, who was caught hiding in the woods near the recreation field.

Guner Vicelch, 19, of Jay, was found to have a concealed weapon – a folding knife with a blade about 9 inches long – and a digital scale used for weighing marijuana, Sage said.

A drug-detection-trained police dog was called in, he said.

Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy David Rackliffe and his dog, Odin, searched the area of the woods where Vicelch had been hiding and found nearly an ounce of marijuana, divided into three packages for sell and enclosed in a larger plastic bag, Sage said.

Vicelch was charged with misdemeanor furnishing marijuana and having a concealed weapon and a civil violation of possession of drug paraphernalia, Sage said. He was on probation and the charges are violations of his probation, Sage said, so he was also charged with probation violation.

Vicelch was taken to Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, he said. The man who stayed where he was, Steve Mears, 19, of Jay, was issued a civil violation alleging possession of drug paraphernalia, Sage said.