AVON – Two women and a man were arrested Friday, after police reportedly found heroin and cocaine in a residence on the River Road in Avon.
Brandice Dotolo, 37 of Freeman Township; Oscarlin Pequero-Ortiz, 22, of Avon; and Chrissie Laforge, 40 of Winsted, Conn., were each arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated trafficking, all Class A felonies, following a search of an Avon residence by law enforcement agencies which is alleged to have discovered 95 grams of suspected heroin, 67 grams of suspected crack cocaine and $5,000 in suspected drug proceeds.
According to an affidavit filed by Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Detective Stephen Charles, a team of law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at a River Road address at approximately 4:45 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Charles wrote in the affidavit that he interviewed Laforge, Pequero-Ortiz and Dotolo after the residence was secured. Laforge reportedly admitted to bringing heroin and crack cocaine to the residence from out of state, including a recent trip shortly before law enforcement arrived, and that drugs inside the house were for resale by Pequero-Ortiz and Dotolo. Laforge indicated that she had most recently brought to the residence approximately four, 10-gram bags of heroin along with two-and-a-half packs of crack cocaine, each approximately 10 to 15 grams of cocaine per pack.
Pequero-Ortiz reportedly told Charles that he stayed at the Avon residence and watched Dotolo as well as maintained and sold the drugs brought to the house by Laforge. The affidavit indicates that Dotolo told police that she resided at the home and allowed Pequero-Ortiz to stay there in exchange for receiving heroin as a result of the arrangement. She also reportedly admitted to assisting in arranging sales of drugs to people in the area, describing it as “she takes the calls and Oscarlin [Pequero-Ortiz] makes the sales,” according to the affidavit.
Laforge, Pequero-Ortiz and Dotolo were all arrested and transported to Franklin County Detention Center. Laforge was released Saturday on $10,000 cash bail, while Pequero-Ortiz and Dotolo both appeared in court Monday. Bail was set at $15,000 cash for Pequero-Ortiz and $500 cash and a Maine Pre-Trial Services contract for Dotolo.
When will the rest of Phillips/Avon be cleaned up?
Nice work.
Good work officers. ” of Avon ” lol
Big raids in farmington today
Bravo FCSO. Now let’s see what the DA does.
All three singing like birds.
Excellent job by the FCSO. Thank you Sheriff Nichols and your deputies.
Now it’s time for the court system to send these folks away for a long long time. The amount of death being packaged and sold for distribution equates to a mass murder in numbers of potential deaths to the knuckleheads using this poison. Furthermore, the transportation across states lines makes the perpetrators guilty of Federal violation.
The Maine state system is often considered lenient in their sentencing drug dealers from away. Governor LePages, binder of bad actors, comes to mind. The motivations in regard this sentencing bias may be many, but there’s a glaring difference in real-time being served between Federal and State sentencing. The death these clowns deal in our towns is very real, there sentences, not so much. This overly lenient aporoach isn’t working for Maine. The balls in the DAs office now, see where it goes.
@Get low – “All three singing like birds.” – Of course they are! Lookin out for #1. No loyalty in the biz.
This is what people get for spending money like it’s water and flaunting their “assets”. Why is working for a living so difficult for some? What goes around comes around.
The real useful song would be their giving the names and locations of their suppliers and the financial “big Boys”, plus any “protection” they have. Now wouldn’t that be a song worth hearing? Lauri
He watched her?? What does that mean?
Any one else wonder why the person renting the house was not arrested or even mentioned? Seems a bit strange
Thank you FCSO!
Glad to see you are pro-actively watching out for us.
Hope the courts don’t let us down.
Thank you for cleaning our area up a bit! It is a great start and I certainly hope to see more of it!
Law and Order!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/oscarlin.pegueroortiz
https://www.facebook.com/brandice.dotolo
Sorry folks, should of done it in farmington if you didnt want to be arrested, after what I read in the latest published articles