RUMFORD — Police are searching for a local man accused of trafficking in dangerous drugs.

Detective Sgt. James Bernard said Wednesday afternoon that Jeffrey Hill, 22, is the fourth of four area men sought during last Friday’s warrant sweep for suspected cocaine and prescription drug dealers.

On April 8, police arrested Kevin Michael Arsenault, 38, of 3 Spring St., in Mexico and Aaron Moses Brasuell, 34, of 21 Rumford Ave., in Rumford on warrants from Oxford County Superior Court in Paris.

Arsenault was charged with two counts of selling cocaine from his home, police Chief Stacy Carter said in a report.

Brasuell was charged with two counts of selling the prescription painkillers Percocet and OxyContin from his home, he said.

Arsenault was released on $100,000 worth of real estate, but Brasuell was unable to post the same bail and was taken to Oxford County Jail in Paris.

Brasuell was released Wednesday on a Maine pretrial service agreement and will be arraigned on May 3, a jail official said Thursday afternoon.

Bernard said the third man wanted on a March 31 warrant was Eric Matthews, 24, of the Isthmus Road in Rumford. He said Matthews turned himself in to Rumford police at 5:50 p.m. Monday.

Matthews was charged with aggravated trafficking in cocaine. He was released on $100,000 real estate bail and will be arraigned on June 17 in the Superior Court in Paris.

Police from Rumford and Mexico, and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents served the arrest warrants on the three after an undercover investigation led by the MDEA and Rumford police, Carter said.

The operation began last fall, “targeting cocaine and pharmaceutical painkiller dealers peddling their drugs,” he said.

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