RUMFORD – An apartment building owner and two tenants were arrested Friday during a multi-agency drug bust. Cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and 29 guns were seized.

Gary Tardif, 43, of 73 Plymouth Ave., was charged with cocaine trafficking, manufacturing cocaine base (crack), and unlawful possession of cocaine. He was also issued a summons for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Tardif was released on $21,000 surety bail, and is scheduled to be arraigned on Oct. 5 in Rumford District Court.

Tardif lives on the third floor of the apartment building that he owns.

Also arrested were first-floor tenants, Charles Rabon, 48, and his wife, Sharon Rabon, 47. Each was charged with aggravated trafficking in cocaine, a Class A felony.

The Rabons were each released on $20,000 surety bail, and are scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 2 in Rumford District Court.

Armed with search warrants for the first and third floor apartments, Rumford and Mexico police, Oxford County deputies, and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents raided the building Friday.

In Tardif’s apartment, MDEA special agent supervisor Gerry Baril said police found usable amounts of cocaine and marijuana, and residue from the manufacture of crack cocaine, which was hidden in a safe.

“The paraphernalia used to mix cocaine powder with baking soda prior to cooking it’ into crack, was still wet, from what appears to have been an attempt to flush’ away evidence by Tardif shortly after entry was made on the first floor,” Baril stated Sunday in a press release.

In the Rabons’ apartment, Baril said officers found about 84 grams (three ounces) of cocaine, most of which had already been packaged in gram and 8-ball (3.5 grams) quantities for distribution.

Also found and seized were an unidentified amount of currency and 29 firearms, including a loaded .357 Magnum handgun found in a vehicle.

Baril said the street value of the cocaine seized was about $8,000.

Assisting in the raids was a drug-sniffing dog from the U.S. Border Patrol. Baril said the dog successfully located concealed drugs and areas where drugs may have recently been concealed and removed.

Friday’s raids came from follow-up investigations to ongoing multi-jurisdictional cocaine trafficking investigations by the MDEA, and Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield and Oxford County police.

Last week, officers from the agencies arrested a Byron man and a Dixfield man on cocaine charges, and searched a Rumford building for drugs.