The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says two southern Maine men were arrested Wednesday night while they were transporting heroin from Massachusetts to Maine.

The drugs were destined to be sold in the Biddeford-Saco area, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland.

The two were arrested along Route 1 in York by State Troopers who stopped their car.

Jeffrey March, 24, of Saco, and Brandon Perry, 23, of Scarborough, were charged with aggravated trafficking in heroin.

For the past month, agents from the MDEA York District Task Force and State police conducted an investigation into the illegal distribution of heroin by March, McCausland said.

The investigation revealed March, along with others, routinely traveled to Lawrence, Massachusetts to purchase heroin in bulk, which was later sold throughout the Saco-Biddeford area, drug agents said.

On February 10, at about 10 p.m., March and Perry were stopped by Troopers on Route 1 in York. Drug Agents had observed March and Perry leaving the state earlier in the evening in March’s Chrysler 300. The two traveled to Lawrence, Massachusetts and drug agents observed them as they returned to Maine on the Maine Turnpike.

During the traffic stop, a State police drug recognition dog detected drugs on the two men, police said.

About 24 grams of heroin, which is the equivalent of 240 doses, were seized from March and Perry, McCausland said.

Both men were taken to the York County Jail and are being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.

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