BRUNSWICK – A Wilton man was arrested earlier this week as he got off a train, with police saying he was carrying 1,200 doses of fentanyl.
James Young-Dumont, 32 of Wilton, has been charged with aggravated trafficking of a schedule W drug, a Class A felony, as well as violating the conditions of his release and failure to appear. Young-Dumont was also on probation in Massachusetts for an unrelated drug charge and had a warrant from that state for a probation violation. He was also on bail for an unrelated possession of a scheduled drug charge out of Ellsworth.
According to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Steve McCausland, police believed Young-Dumont traveled regularly to Haverhill, Mass. to buy heroin and fentanyl, then return to Maine to repackage the drugs for sale.
When Young-Dumont got off the train at approximately 4:30 p.m., McCausland said in a press release, he attempted to run from the arresting officers but was taken into custody. Maine Drug Enforcement Agency personnel searched Young-Dumont and discovered 120 grams, or 1,200 doses, of the drug fentanyl. Police say the drugs had a street value of $20,000.
Young-Dumont is also on probation in Massachusetts for a previous drug charge and had an outstanding warrant from that state for a probation violation, according to McCausland.
Young-Dumont was transported to Cumberland County Jail. Due to the alleged bail violation, no bail has been set. MDEA was assisted at the scene by Amtrak police.
So, we have a guy who was potentially responsible for 1200 overdose deaths. Lock him up and throw away the key.
How many more times do we need to read about REPEAT OFFENDERS trafficking this poison !!!!! Maybe JUSTICE will actually get served on these people. When people like him make the CHOICE to do these drugs they throw any regard for society away. They endanger so many people besides themselves its not funny and I definitely don’t want them or anyone like them around my children or family. Throw him and other poison pushers in a hole and forget about them !!!!!!
if JUSTICE had been served the first time we would not have to worry about these repeat offenders!!
The potency of these drugs is cause enough to charge these creeps with attempted murder. If these drugs originated out of state then federal charges can be brought. The federal courts are rightfully heavy on sentencing. Thus is a lesson the liberal leaning judiciary in Maine is reluctant to learn. These dealers are peddling death, offer them life in prison, they deserve it.
I will again beat the drum, in response to the comments so far, just how much of our limited state funds and or your tax monies are you willing to spend on prisons to keep these repeat offenders locked up. Get the federal govt. to make this type of offence their problem, let them lock up this guy for interstate trafecing they have the money to keep him we don’t
sounds like the guy doesn’t think the laws apply to him, that he is above them.
You can’t always blame the government.
In my opinion, drug pushers would have no clientele if children were raised to think highly of themselves and not ingest or inhale anything that takes them ‘out of themselves.’ If you don’t teach self-respect and teach it hard, you are opening your family up to the ‘avenues of escape’ that drugs (including alcohol) offers.
I see too many individuals who are hooked, creating hardships for themselves and anyone who loves them. Quite a few eventually end up dying from it.
Until parents instill self-respect into their children we are going to have this world-wide problem of drug peddling and addictions.
Drugs today are instantly addictive. The drug chemists are under orders to make it so. If there is no market, it will dry up…
I bet all the “Pill Heads” in Franklin County are saddened by this news! Why isn’t this guy’s photo & address published so the public can be aware of who he is? What about our rights?
Mr.Donahue, you are forgetting that federal government money is our money.
@Permanent Snowbird, you can’t always blame the parents either.
Banging my drum as well but having a very difficult time comprehending. Mr. Young-Dumont of Wilton was on probation in MA for an unrelated drug charge and had an active warrant from MA for probation violation. Plus he was on bail for yet another (unrelated) possession of a scheduled drug charge out of Ellsworth. Not sure of the sequence of events but if he was allowed to post bail in Ellsworth after the MA offenses and warrant, who on earth made that decision? This man is a repeat offender; he traffics in an extremely dangerous drug. Yet Mr. Young-Dumont seems to have been given multiple chances.
However, in Maine many honest, law abiding people who suffer from chronic pain are not given a second chance due to the new “one size fits all” drug law. Laborers whose bodies are worn out from logging or fishing, people with debilitating pain from car accidents or a disease process. They must continue to work to support their family. Or if completely disabled, they want to at least have some quality of life. Because Maine enacted LD 1646 (SP 671) effective January 1, 2017, 81 year old people are suffering because their pain medication has been cut in half.
There is no specific type of chronic pain. There are a lot of different causes, some respond well to opioids, others don’t. For politicians to make such a broad assumption regarding chronic pain, is dangerous at best, ignorant at least. Yet many Mainers suffer because they aren’t given a second chance like Mr. Young-Dumont. Their doctors say the state is tying their hands and the state says doctors have discretion. Meanwhile, the Young-Dumonts of society continue to repeatedly traffic poison. Peddlers of this garbage on all levels need to be hunted, apprehended, and prosecuted to the fullest extent yet somehow their sentences are all suspended except 33 minutes.
As for the poor people who are in pain as they read the paper? Opioids do indeed have an important place in long term chronic pain management and there are people who can use opioids responsibility (some for decades)
but perhaps not in Maine?
The drug dealers aren’t cooking fentanyl, OxyContin or any of the other drugs people are using. Drug companies are making millions upon millions, and the taxpayer is footing the bill for this problem. People lived on this planet right up until about 25 years ago with out this crap, and there is no frigging reason that we need it know other than the drug companies have created a market for it. Ban the sale of this stuff and watch the problem go away.
Lock all these dealers up together in one giant building and supply them with unlimited amount of hard drugs. Keep the cameras rolling and be guaranteed a hit reality show with the bonus of the problem eventually solving itself.
@Nate ~ Interesting post but I disagree for three reasons. First, fentanyl can and is illegally made or as you referred to it, cooked:
Second, how would you like to suffer with excruciating pain from a kidney stone? A pain so terrible it can drop a man to his knees? That many women who have had both kidney stones and given birth say childbirth was less painful:
So if you had a kidney stone on Friday night you’d have to suffer till Monday when your PCP opened (remember we don’t have walk in clinics) or depending on where you lived, take a 50 mile drive to FMH. Then when they send you home it’s not with a prescription for pain meds because they’re outlawed.
Even worse, what if you had to sit by the bedside as your wife, child or loved one was gripped by the pain of cancer which at the same time was taking their life? Through your tears would you still think pain meds should be banned?
Finally, people have been using a variety of pain remedies including opium for centuries:
I don’t think it’s against the DB’s rules to use links since there’s an icon for them so not sure why my urls didn’t appear but here they are in order:
http://https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl
http://http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/health/kidney-stones-explainer
http://http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-drugs-work-to-help-you-ease-the-pain-1452216695
Good comments Bob.
I guess I don’t know enough about making drugs. Must have missed that class due to work.
How did people survive with out these pills for all these years, and suddenly we HAVE to have them? Its because the drug companies are selling you this bad bill of goods. Thanks for posting links, but I am fully capable of using google on my own.