Maine has become a “wholesale distribution hub” for drug dealers in the northeastern, To bring a number of crime to rural areas, a police chief Fox News told Digital.

The New England state, typically known for its robust coastline and beautiful autumn foliage, has gradually been filled with illegal substances as several gangs are establishing themselves in the area. Chris Martin, Police Chief of the Brewer Police Department In Maine, Told Fox News Digital that his area has become a distribution node for illegal drugs.

“What we have seen in the past, especially four years, is that our area has turned into a wholesale distribution hub. So we have kilos available by fentanyl and methamphetamine and cocaine. And it is a dramatic market change that we had not seen 10, 20 years ago.

Martin, who also serves as the city’s director of public security, said the increase in illegal drugs has also brought an increase in crime. Since it is often expensive to buy street medicine, Martin said that individuals are addressing crime to finance their addiction.

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Jesse Harvey, the founder of the Church of SAFE injection, with Naloxon, he gives out to anyone who needs it outside his parked car near Kennedy Park in Lewiston on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

“With that we also see the presence of organized crime. Street gangs Out of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, they actually bring the offer here, “Martin said.” Drug abuse causes crime. And if you have one or 200 $ 300 a day habit, especially if it is an opioid like Fentanyl, it doesn’t take a day off. If you don’t have the drug you get sick. So how can anyone advice for one, two, $ 300 day habits every day of the week? You always have to commit crimes. “

Martin said these crimes include theft, prostitution, human trafficking, burglary and drug sales. He added that about 90% of the crimes that his officers respond to “have a drug Nexus.”

“All of these things go hand in hand and the driving force delivers this narco economy if you want,” Martin said of the emergence of illegal drugs in Maine. “All of these things make kind of a perfect storm.”

Maine is felt implications throughout the state. On April 1, officials arrested two people in Dixfield, who allegedly possessed “225 grams of cocaine and crack cocaine, 10 grams of fentanyl, various unidentified capsules and pills, three loaded firearms and $ 4,350 in drugs News Center Maine.

“I’ve never seen anything like what we are experiencing here in Maine.”

– Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Bobby Charles

In Bangor, Maine, 27-year-old Dylan Caruso was shot to death over $ 600 caused by another man for drugs in 2024, according to Fox 23.

According to Connecticut PostA convicted murderer arrested in October 2024 in Maine, was pulled over and allegedly found to be in possession of a burdened firearm and drugs. The individual, Cyrus Griffin, was not allowed to leave the state of Connecticut.

Maine Democratic Government Manager Janet Mills said in September 2023 that Fentanyl is responsible for 80% of all drug reductions throughout the state.

State lawmakers are divided into how to attack Illegal narcoticsidemic.

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Jesse Harvey, the founder of the Church of SAFE injection, shows some volunteers what he hands out to clients from his mobile needle exchange near Kennedy Park in Lewiston on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Harvey gives clients a safe place to dispose of used needles, naloxon, cleaning of needles and other objects seen as damage reduction tools in gendhant. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

The Sen of the Republican State. Brad Farrin who lost his 26-year-old daughter to an overdose of drugs, suggested a bill By 2023, it would have reclassified trafficking in fentanyl for a crime in class A. The bill was voted down, primarily by Democrats.

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Republican Bobby Charles, who runs for Maine Governor and served in the former Bush administration as assistant state secretary of international drugs and law enforcement agents, Fox News Digital told the state to become more serious to confront this epidemic.

“I’ve never seen anything like what we are experiencing here in Maine. This state when I grew up in this state could have had five overdoses throughout the state. Last year, this state had 10,000 overdoses and many of them mortals,” Charles said. “I sit down next to people and they lean quietly to me and say this happened to me two days ago, I lost my daughter to Fentanyl two years ago … Do you know what the destruction is? It’s huge and it’s unforgivable. It’s immoral and it has to be stopped.”

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A bag of pills that a person fell off in the box at the drug station at the back Bay parking space. The station was one of several locations throughout the Portland area of ​​national prescription medicine. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Charles has placed blamed square on state democrats and mills who, in his view, have not done much to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into Maine.

“The traffickers have entered this state and because the Democrats have cut the gut out of law enforcement, in my opinion they have betrayed them. There is not a single situation where a prosecutor feels he has enough money or has the ability to prosecute these cases. They have been abandoned, ok? “Charles said.

“The bottom line is that they are trying to transform Maine into the inner city of Chicago or Badlands of Philly. And I will not stand for it. Mainers won’t stand for.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Mills’ office for comment.