Police in Bridgton seized 18 pounds of marijuana and 145 pot plants during a raid on a house at 139 Beartrap Road Saturday.

Bridgton police, a State Police trooper and an Oxford County sheriff’s deputy executed a search warrant at 7:20 p.m. following an investigation by Bridgton Officer T.J. Reese. One pound of the marijuana was packaged for sale and the processed marijuana seized was worth $51,000, police said.

Police charged Robert F. Murphy, 55, and Cynthia M. Murphy, 52, with cultivating marijuana and drug trafficking. They are scheduled to appear in Portland Superior Court on Sept. 2.


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