Man receives 2 years for heroin trafficking in Milo area

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Milo man was sentenced at the Piscataquis County Courthouse on Aug. 22 to two years incarceration at the Maine State Prison in Warren on drug charges, according to a news release issued by the town of Brownville.

John C. Fogg, 43, waived indictment and pleaded guilty just before he was sentenced to one count each of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, a Class B crime; theft of prescription drugs, a Class C crime; and two counts of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, both Class D crimes. Fogg also was ordered to pay a $400 fine.

The sentence was the result of a plea agreement between Fogg’s attorney and the drug prosecutors on the case.

Fogg was arrested March 18 — and then held without bail at the Piscataquis County Jail — after an investigation by the Milo and Brownville police departments into heroin trafficking in those and the surrounding communities. He was suspect in dealing heroin, as well as other illegal drugs over the previous two years.

Law enforcement had a report that Fogg had stolen a Ritalin prescription from a Milo residence. Upon being pulled over in a traffic stop as part of the investigation, he was found to be in possession of an amount of heroin as well as other illegal drugs.

The arresting officers were David Wilson of the Milo Police Department, a former Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officer, and Brownville Police Chief Nicholas Clukey. The follow-up investigation was performed by the two departments with the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department assisting.