BETHEL – A Florida couple was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges of transporting hundreds of Oxycodone pills from that state to Maine.

Wilson M. Mills, 51, and Eugenie R. Macie, 39, both of Southeast 184th Terrace in Ocklawaha, Fla., were each charged with aggravated drug trafficking and illegal importation of drugs.

Chief Alan Carr of the Bethel Police Department said the arrests came after a three-month investigation. Carr said officer George Gould was receiving complaints and information on drug sales in the Bethel area and executed a search warrant with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency on two vehicles suspected of being involved in drug transportation.

“We had information that they were coming back from Florida on Sunday,” Carr said.

He said Mills and Macie were in one of the two vehicles, along with more than 200 tablets of the prescription painkiller Oxycodone. Carr said the MDEA is continuing its investigation into other drugs that were seized.

“Right now the investigation is still going forward,” Carr said. “There could be further charges on the ones that were already arrested, and there could be more people involved.”

Carr said the couple is charged with going to Florida to purchase the pills and returning to Maine to sell them. According to booking sheets at the Oxford County Jail, both Mills and Macie were born in Maine and the couple has a daughter living in Bethel.

The trafficking charge is aggravated due to the amount of drugs and their transportation across state lines.

Mills and Macie remained in jail Monday evening on bail of $75,000 cash or $150,000 worth of real estate each.

“Officer Gould did a super job, along with the MDEA,” Carr said. “We got some bad people off the street for awhile.”