Following a three-month investigation, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and Portland Police Department on Thursday announced the arrest of a Portland man on multiple drug trafficking charges and the seizure of a significant amount of illegal drugs, cash and a loaded firearm.
27-year-old Charles Aboda was arrested without incident in the afternoon on Tuesday, April 23, in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood.
Aboda faces two counts of aggravated trafficking in schedule drugs (fentanyl, Class A), and one count of unlawful trafficking in schedule drugs (cocaine, Class B).
At the time of his arrest, MDEA agents seized approximately three ounces of fentanyl, cocaine, and $1,000 in suspected drug proceeds.
Aboda was transported to the Cumberland County Jail by Portland Police where his bail was set at $15,000 cash.
According to the MDEA, for the past three months agents with the Cumberland District Task Force and officers from the Portland Police Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) conducted an investigation into suspected illegal drug trafficking by Aboda.
MDEA says information was received that Aboda was selling large quantities of illegal drugs, as well as making smaller, “street level sales” to local drug users.
During the course of their investigation, undercover MDEA agents conducted purchases of illegal drugs directly from Aboda, including of fentanyl, the agency said.
Following Aboda’s arrest Tuesday, MDEA agents executed a search warrant at a residence in the West End area of Portland related to the three-month investigation.
The search of the residence — the address of which was not disclosed — resulted in the seizure of approximately two ounces of fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as a loaded handgun and approximately $10,000 in suspected drug proceeds.
MDEA said the investigation is ongoing and additional charges against Aboda will be reviewed by the Maine Attorney General’s Office.
According to his State of Maine criminal history record, Charles Aboda was born in the northeastern African country Sudan, and has been a U.S. citizen since at least as early as his first recorded arrest in February 2015, when he was charged with refusal to submit to arrest, of which he was found guilty and fined $250.
Throughout 2015, Aboda was found guilty of violating his conditions of release multiple times, collecting $350 in fines and being incarcerated for 30 days.
Aboda is prohibited from possessing firearms due to his numerous drug-related felony convictions.
In November 2015, Aboda was arrested for the first time on felony drug trafficking charges, and was convicted of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs (Class B), for which he was fined $400, and sentenced to two years in prison with all but 60 days of the sentence suspended, followed by two years of probation.
Aboda’s probation was revoked in April 2016 and he was incarcerated for a period of 28 months after being convicted of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs (Class C), a felony.
His next incarceration occurred in October 2018, when Aboda was found guilty of unlawful possession of cocaine (Class C) and sentenced to 120 days in jail, and fined $400.
In May 2019, two felony aggravated drug trafficking charges (Class A) against Aboda were dismissed when he pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful furnishing of scheduled drugs (Class C) — for which he was sentenced to four years in prison with all but five months suspended, and two years of probation.
In October 2020, Aboda was arrested by the MDEA in Portland for Class B unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and two counts of violating conditions of release — charges which were dismissed by prosecutors.
A little over a year later, in November 2021 Aboda was charged with unlawful possession of cocaine base (crack), of which he was found guilty and sentenced in August 2022 to nine months in prison — his most recent recorded incarceration.
Gotta love the cultural enrichment the Left has been telling us about with asylees, refugees and illegal aliens. I’m sure If the Office of New Mainers was in place before now, this would never have happened. 🤥
“Portland man” ? Really ?
Drug trafficking is murder.
Drug traffickers executed upon conviction never reoffend !
When I was growing up in South Portland there wasn’t a person named Aboda in the whole state, no less a brown person. From Portland, my ass.