Two men are facing separate charges after police raided a marijuana-growing facility in West Gardiner this week.

Kristopher Brill, 37, of Farmingdale, was charged with cultivating marijuana and issued a summons for a future court date after the raid Monday.

Joseph Dunn, 37, of Belgrade, was charged with obstructing government administration. He was arrested and taken to the Kennebec County jail on Monday afternoon, and later freed on $100 bail.

Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Brill, who owned the facility at 937 Hallowell-Litchfield Road, had permission to grow marijuana, but was limited to 18 plants.

“Troopers located 79 plants between 2 and 3 feet tall and well-cultivated,” McCausland said. Brill owns the former Cobbosseecontee Grange building.

Dunn was working on equipment at the facility, McCausland said, adding that Dunn operates a grow products supply store on Route 27 in Augusta.

Troopers raided the West Gardiner building after receiving a tip from Central Maine Power Co. workers.

Maine State Police Trooper Chris Rogers said a transformer had malfunctioned and workers replacing it with a larger one reported the odor of marijuana coming from a building where the windows were boarded up and painted black.

“As we drove down the road, we could smell it,” Rogers said. The raid followed several weeks of surveillance.

McCausland also said Dunn is on federal probation, and investigators were checking with the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services office to see whether he faces other charges.

Dunn pleaded guilty in May 2012 to attempting to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and distribution of marijuana. He was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

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