LEWISTON — A Brooklyn man tracked down in Connecticut last week was indicted Wednesday on charges of trafficking crack cocaine and heroin in the Twin Cities.

Corey Ray Howard, 34, was indicted on four counts of aggravated drug trafficking and on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating conditions of release.

Police described Howard as a career criminal with a number of past convictions for violent crimes, including a 1996 armed robbery.

Local and federal police had been investigating Howard on suspicion that he was dealing crack and heroin in the area. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency led the probe with the help of the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force and Lewiston and Auburn police.

Drug agents made undercover buys from Howard and were prepared to arrest him when he vanished from the area, police said.

The U.S. Marshals Service ultimately tracked Howard down near Hartford, Conn., police said. Last week, a pair of local MDEA agents went to Hartford for an extradition hearing. Howard did not fight extradition, police said, and was returned to Maine.

According to the indictment, police seized a Phoenix Arms .25-caliber pistol when Howard was arrested.

When he fled to Connecticut, police said, Howard was already out on bail from previous drug charges. Now he’s charged additionally with dealing cocaine within 1,000 feet of a Lewiston school in February and with dealing crack and heroin in Auburn during the same period.

Howard remained at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.