Paris Drug Bust

by E.C. Shanor
     OXFORD COUNTY – Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) officers and Paris police say they arrested a drug-dealing South Paris couple.
     
     The arrests came Saturday afternoon, January 30, after a surveillance detail watched them allegedly selling tablets to a bicyclist on Market Square. The police, who had been tipped off, arrested the cyclist, Charles Smallwood, 27, of Norway, not far from the square and say they took from him 33 Percocet tablets which contain oxycodone, worth about $400.
     
     MDEA Agent Zane Loper said Betty Buck, 27, and Toby Boutilier, 34, both of 51 Western Avenue, South Paris, were arrested a short time after Smallwood was taken into custody. However, according to Loper, they had been followed after picking up the drugs at the Walgreen Pharmacy earlier in the afternoon.
     
     Boutilier is on probation from a 2008 conviction for trying to hold up the Rite Aid pharmacy in South Paris. His efforts to flee at that time were thwarted by his aged get-away car, which refused to start, Loper pointed out, resulting in an impromptu game of hide-and-seek around the state office building – a game which Boutilier eventually lost.
     
     Smallwood was arrested on two warrants for unpaid fines. Boutilier's probation officer ordered him held without eligibility for release on bail.