RUMFORD — Five people in western Maine have been charged with drug trafficking for allegedly running a cocaine distribution ring that sold up to $250,000 worth of the drug in the past year.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Rumford police arrested four men and a woman today at their homes in Rumford, Mexico, Roxbury and Jay.
MDEA Agent Tony Milligan says the alleged ringleader, 40-year-old Timothy Clark of Mexico, was making several trips a week to Massachusetts to pick up quarter-pound quantities of cocaine and then distributing it to local drug dealers.
Milligan said the investigation began in January 2010.
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