PORTLAND (AP) — Maine drug agents say three people have been charged in a scheme to mail prescription drugs from Florida to Maine and resell them.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says 50-year-old Robert Merriam and 32-year-old Jason Parsons, both of Presque Isle, and 23-year-old Joseph Bolda, of South Daytona, Fla., have been charged with aggravated trafficking in oxycodone.
The DEA began investigating reports several months of ago of Merriam receiving pain killer shipments by mail from Florida and reselling them.
Earlier this month, agents intercepted a package with 750 oxycodone tablets destined for Presque Isle, while also intercepting a package with $4,600 cash that allegedly had been mailed to Bolda.
In all, police say more than 20 shipments of drugs were mailed.
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