Bangor, Maine-
A man from Brooklyn, New York, wanted on numerous outstanding warrants, was taken into custody Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Bangor, Maine and charged with aggravated drug trafficking offenses. A search warrant was also executed on an apartment in the Capehart section of Bangor as part of this investigation.
For the past two months, investigators assigned to MDEA’s North Central Task Force have been investigating the sale of crack cocaine and fentanyl from a Moosehead Boulevard residence in Bangor. This investigation included undercover purchases of crack cocaine from the suspect, 28-year-old Antron K. Owens of Brooklyn, New York.
During the late afternoon of April 13, 2023, MDEA agents and Bangor Police Officers attempted to take Owens into custody as he sat inside a vehicle located a short distance away from Moosehead Boulevard. As agents and officers approached, Owens fled from the car on foot. Officers immediately gave chase. During the foot chase, officers observed Owens throw what turned out to be a stolen 9mm handgun to the ground. Owens was eventually captured a short distance from where he fled on foot. At the time of his arrest, Owens was in possession of approximately $2500 in suspected drug proceeds.
At the time of Owens arrest, he was wanted on ten outstanding arrest warrants. Among them were warrants for Kidnapping, Domestic Violence Aggravated Assault, Domestic Violence Terrorizing, Criminal Restraint, Criminal Mischief, Violations of Conditions of Release, Failure to Appear and Failure to Stop for an Officer. Cash bail set on all the outstanding arrests warrants exceeds $30,000. In addition to the warrants, Owens was out on seven active sets of bail. All warrants and bail conditions are from the State of Maine.
Following Owens arrest, MDEA agents, along with officers from the Bangor Police Department executed a search warrant on a Moosehead Boulevard home where Owens had been staying. Seized from the home was approximately 65 grams of fentanyl and another handgun in which the serial numbers had been removed. Street value of the seized drugs is approximately $10,000.
Owens was booked into the Penobscot County Jail on all the outstanding warrants in addition to Class A, Aggravated Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs (Crack/Fentanyl) and Class C Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, resulting from the MDEA investigation. These charges were aggravated to the most serious felony due to the presence of a gun and because of the amount of drugs seized during this investigation.
Assisting the MDEA during this investigation was the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bangor Police Department.
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Booking photos are available through the Penobscot County Jail’s on-line website.
The MDEA stands committed to working with all federal, state, county and local law enforcement partners in order to continue to identify and disrupt drug trafficking organizations who are attempting to distribute illicit drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine in the State of Maine. This investigation is continuing, and more arrests are likely.
If you suffer with substance use disorder, please call 211 or text your zip code to 898-211 for a list of resources available in your area.
If you have information about this investigation or the illegal sale of drugs in your community, you are urged to contact the Maine Drug Enforcement office closest to you or by texting MDEA to TIP411 (847411) or by calling the MDEA tip-line at 1-800-452-6457.
Shannon Moss
Public Information Officer
Maine Department of Public Safety