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PARIS – Two Oxford County men are charged with growing and selling marijuana after police found plants and 22 pounds of leaves at the home of one of them on Main Street in Greenwood last week.

Mitchell Maddocks, 45, of 11 Rocky Road, Locke Mills, was charged Friday and Gregory Erskine, 51, of 235 Main St., Greenwood, was charged Monday, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said in a statement issued Monday.

MDEA agents, assisted by Bethel and state police, and the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at Erskines’s home about 11:30 a.m. Friday, MDEA supervisor Gerry Baril said. The search of the property, which also housed Erskine’s business, Mountain Machine and Marine, resulted in the discovery of two marijuana growing rooms on the second floor, and two other rooms in the attic where the dried plants were stripped of leaves.

Police seized 10 live marijuana plants, about two ounces of processed marijuana, and the stalks of 148 full-grown and harvested plants. Also seized were 22 pounds of marijuana leaves.

The MDEA estimated the street value of the seizure at more than $22,000.

Maddocks was charged Friday with trafficking marijuana because more than 20 pounds of marijuana plant material was seized, and with cultivating marijuana.

Erskine was arrested Monday on the same charges after he turned himself in at the Rumford Police Department.

Both men are out on bail and will be arraigned in Oxford County Superior Court in April.

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