An Augusta man and a man from New York were arrested yesterday (Nov. 23) in Augusta on drug charges.
The Augusta Police Department, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, Maine State Police and City Code Enforcement Officers executed a search warrant at 117 Bridge Street...
During the April 16 episode of 'Saturday Night Live,' the show aired a parody commercial for a fake product called "Heroin AM," which proclaimed to allow people to do heroin while continuing on with their day.
Maybe they should have invested in a GPS before getting anywhere near an international border with $20,000 worth of heroin.
That's correct, a simple wrong turn near the Maine/Canada border led to the arrest of two men from out of state on heroin charges by the US Customs and Border Patrol and the Maine DEA on March 6 at the crossing near Houlton.
I don’t want to repeat this after writing about it a few weeks ago but people, including kids in high school stay off heroin. You’ve seen what it can do in Hollywood over the weekend.
Heroin use in Maine is on the rise. Twenty-eight of 163 people who died from overdoses in 2012 were due to heroin. Last year's numbers will likely exceed those of 2012. The 2013 numbers have yet to be released.
Recently hospitals in Portland have seen higher numbers of heroin overdoses, including two fatalities. The cause is a stronger and more potent form of the drug. So the long and the short of is, Portland Police seem to be taking the "be safe" approach over the "don't do it" approach.