BANGOR — A second man pleaded not guilty Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to slaying three people this summer then setting them ablaze in a rental car in what police have called a grisly, drug-related triple homicide.

Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., was ordered held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail by Superior Court Justice E. Allen Hunter.

Sexton and Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 34, of Brockton, Mass., are charged in connection with the deaths of Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford on Aug. 13 in Bangor.

A trial date has not been set. The Maine attorney general’s office, which is prosecuting, has asked that the two men be tried together. The judge has not issued his decision on that motion.

Daluz and Sexton were indicted in September by the Penobscot County grand jury on three counts each of intentional or knowing murder and one count of arson.

Sexton was arrested at gunpoint on Oct. 4 in Brockton, Mass., and initially said he would fight extradition but waived his rights in Brockton District Court on Wednesday, according to a previous report. He was returned to Maine the next day by two Bangor police detectives and has been held at the Penobscot County Jail since then.

Daluz denied his role in the killings when he pleaded not guilty Oct. 4 to the charges against him at the Penobscot Judicial Center. He was denied bail by Superior Court Justice William Anderson.

When arrested on Oct. 2 in New Bedford, Mass., Daluz told police there that he didn’t kill anyone and blamed Sexton for pulling the trigger on Borders, Lugdon and Tuscano, according to a previous report.

The three victims died of gunshot wounds, police have said, and their charred bodies were found by firefighters on Aug. 13 inside a white Pontiac sedan, rented by Sexton, that had been set ablaze in the back parking lot of a Automatic Distributors at 22 Target Industrial Circle, according to a previous report.

BDN writer Nok-Noi Ricker contributed to this report.