Bar Harbor Man Arrested on Multiple Drug Charges Stemming From 2023 Overdoses
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BAR HARBOR—According to the Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Police Department’s press release and court records, Dorian D. Cregg, 37, was arrested Friday, December 20, on an arrest warrant charging unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs (class B), aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs (class C), and unlawful furnishing of scheduled drugs (class C).
In an arrest warrant affidavit written by Sgt. Soren Sundberg of the Bar Harbor Police Department, he states that on April 28, 2023, he responded to a medical call at a Bar Harbor restaurant for a woman who was unconscious and not breathing. Sgt. Sundberg, arriving first, began CPR and administered one dose of NARCAN to the woman who responded to the NARCAN, was resuscitated, and was transported to MDI Hospital by Bar Harbor ambulance.
At the hospital the woman told Sgt. Sundberg that a friend had given her what she thought was cocaine. The woman did not wish to tell Sgt. Sundberg who had supplied her with the alleged cocaine.
Approximately three and a half hours later on the same day, another medical call came from the same Bar Harbor restaurant for a woman who was unconscious and not breathing behind the bar. Officers Caleb Mora and Liam Harrington arrived on scene and administered two doses of NARCAN before this woman could be resuscitated and transported to MDI Hospital by Bar Harbor ambulance.
The first woman who overdosed and had been released from the hospital in the interim was actually the one who located the second woman overdosing behind the bar when she returned to the restaurant to collect some personal belongings.
It was later learned that the first woman who overdosed had purchased what she believed to be cocaine from a coworker at a neighboring restaurant. Both of the restaurants have the same owners. The seller of the alleged cocaine was identified as Cregg. The first overdose victim had split what she bought with the second overdose victim.
The second overdose victim was given a third dose of NARCAN at the hospital and was advised to have someone stay with her overnight after being released due to the fact that she was still in danger of overdosing again. She was also told by hospital staff that she had overdosed on fentanyl. She also admitted to knowing beforehand that the first victim was planning on purchasing the cocaine on April 28 and they had agreed to split it.
On April 29, 2023, a search warrant was conducted at Cregg’s residence at 67A Eagle Lake Road with the assistance of a Maine Drug Enforcement Agent and a drug detecting canine from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office. No drugs were found at the time. However, the canine did hit on a certain area indicating that drugs may have recently been there. Epsom salts, which according to the warrant affidavit, is a common cutting agent for illegal drugs, were also located in a large unmarked bag, along with scales, empty plastic bags containing a white residue, and a ledger containing a list of names and money owed by the listed names.
During the course of Sgt. Sundberg’s investigation, a third woman who had overdosed in October 2022 from alleged cocaine was identified. This woman said that she knew that on April 28, 2023, it was most likely that Cregg was the only one in Bar Harbor selling cocaine because she had sworn off cocaine after her overdose, but she had relapsed and Cregg was the only one she could find to buy it from.
This third female said that she was at the same restaurant when the first victim overdosed on April 28, and she immediately started to call and inform everyone that she knew who uses cocaine to throw away anything that they got from Cregg because it was “poison.”
On April 28, 2023, MDI Hospital had taken urine samples from both females who had overdosed at the restaurant that night. On June 5, 2023, the Bar Harbor Police Department retrieved these samples and stored them until January 21, 2024, when they were transported by Sgt. Sundberg to the Maine Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory for analysis.
On October 24, 2024, Sgt. Sundberg received the results of the first overdose victim’s urine analysis. The results showed the presence of carboxy-THC, cocaine, benzoylecgonine, and fentanyl. This first victim told Sgt. Sundberg that she had never knowingly ingested fentanyl prior to the night that she overdosed, including by prescription.
On November 29, 2024, Sgt. Sundberg received the results of the second overdose victim’s urine analysis. The results showed the presence of carboxy-THC, cocaine, benzoylecgonine, diphenhydramine, acetyl fentanyl, and fentanyl.
On December 20, 2024, Sgt. Sundberg applied for an arrest warrant for Cregg based upon the facts of his investigation, and it was signed and granted by an Ellsworth judge. Later that same day, Cregg was located in Bar Harbor, placed under arrest for the charges named in the warrant and transported to the Hancock County Jail.
Cregg bailed from the Hancock County Jail on the same day that he was arrested for $5,000 cash bail.
RESOURCES
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