JAY – A traffic stop by police on Tuesday resulted in the arrest of two local men charged with unlawful trafficking in a substance suspected to be heroin.
According to Detective Michael Mejia of the Jay Police Department, on Tuesday afternoon local officers and a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agent “observed suspicious circumstances in which a motor vehicle and its occupants were believed to have just been involved in drug activity,” he said.
Jay Officer Dylan Rider located the vehicle shortly before 1 p.m. and conducted a stop to investigate further.
The occupants of the vehicle were identified as Cameron Rose, 21, of Jay, and Kahner Dee, 21, of Jay. Cameron was known by police to be out on bail with conditions of release attached as the result of a previous arrest on felony aggravated drug trafficking charges. Those charges, Mejia said, are in connection with an opiate overdose that occurred in March of 2016 in Jay. As a condition of Rose’s bail he is required to submit to random search and testing, he added.
The vehicle and occupants were searched by police who reportedly found “20 dosage units of a substance suspected to be heroin,” Mejia said. That amount equates to about a total of two grams of substance.
Both Cameron and Kahner were placed under arrest, charged with Class B felony unlawful trafficking of schedule drugs. Cameron is also charged with violating conditions of his release, a Class E misdemeanor crime.
Both are scheduled for an initial appearance in Franklin County Superior Court on Aug. 23.
Don’t these people understand that they can kill someone with that stuff? Or maybe they do and just don’t care
What bothers me is because some individuals CHOOSE to traffic in narcotics, genuine people with serious chronic pain issues are often denied prescriptions.