A homeless man was arrested on Riverside Street in Portland Sunday on charges of drug trafficking, refusing to submit to arrest, and assaulting an officer, according to Portland Police.
Portland Police say they received a report of a person refusing to leave the Ramada Plaza hotel at 155 Riverside St. at 1:16 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11.
Upon arrival, the suspect had fled the area, but was tracked down within minutes to a parking area near 242 Riverside St., police said.
According to Portland Police, a physical altercation occurred when trying to take the suspect into custody.
29-year-old Scott Thomas, whom police indicated is “unhoused,” was arrested and charged with Aggravated Trafficking of Scheduled Drugs (W), Refusing to Submit to Arrest and/or Detention, two counts of Assault on a Police Officer.
Police say Thomas was in possession of 27 grams of fentanyl.
Thomas was taken to Cumberland County Jail, where he was subsequently charged with Unlawful Possession of Cocaine Base and Aggravated Drug Trafficking in Prison Contraband.
Portland Police say the additional charges came after “[Thomas] was found to possess 3.6 grams of cocaine base inside him.”
As a result of the physical altercation during the arrest, one officer received treatment at Mercy Hospital for a minor injury.
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Fentanyl. Independent Angus supports the head DEMOCRATE, JOE BIDEN. Joe has runed his family now THE INDEPENDENT wants to support JOE ruining Maine’s kids. Come on King switch to the REPUBLICAN. and close the border like TRUMP did.
“Charged with Unlawful Possession of Cocaine Base and Aggravated Drug Trafficking in Prison Contraband”.
Wait, what? how about assaulting an officer and the fentanyl?
Is he back out on the street again, gracing the new riverside home for the “unhoused”? (thanks to our Soros sponsored DA)
Is he one of the sacred cows referred to as “Out-of-State Intakes”? A new term I just learned from our revered Portland Progressives who are doing such a bang-up job of managing the tax revenues.
Look on the bright side…29-year-old Scott Thomas (who probably hails from some other state) is now NOT HOMELESS. Plus he gets 3 meals and a cot. He really hit the jackpot. All it took was a little fentanyl.
“Unhoused”, does it make the bleeding hearts feel better to changed the names of thing, homeless is now unhoused, use to be just Gay, now it’s the LBGQYTHDF4HLIOTP09=S JUST STOP ALREADY!
Millions for airports. Let us first clean up the drugs. Close the boarders or are locals getting a 10% cut for supporting Joe?
So when this illegal immgrant asylum scam finally gets codified and you tack on more homelessness to the already growing problem you have purposefully exacerbated, stuff like this will be happening everywhere, everyday all the time.