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Two men were arrested during a drug raid in Roxbury, Maine, and charged with heroin and other drug-related crimes, the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

As deputies, agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and local departments drive to a search on Main Street in Roxbury, they saw the target of the investigation, Jeremy Belskis, 29, riding in a car on the highway.

The vehicle was stopped and Belskis was arrested. At his home, police found nearly $1,400, 2.4 grams of cocaine, 2.8 grams of heroin and 8.9 grams of psilocybin mushrooms. Belskis was charged with trafficking heroin, a class B felony. Bail was set at $5,000 cash.

Also arrested was the driver of the car in which Belskis was riding. Jarrod Chessie, 32, of Mexico was charged with possession of heroin, taken to the Rumford Police Department and realeased on bail. More arrests are expected, police said.

Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau....

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