LEWISTON — Bail for an Auburn man was lowered Wednesday to $10,000 cash after he appeared in court on drug furnishing charges stemming from the apparent fatal heroin overdose of a 38-year-old woman who recently had been released from prison.

Eighth District Court Judge Charles Dow lowered the cash bail for Marc Colello, 41, of 29 Washington Park Road, Auburn, from $50,000 to $10,000 or $5,000 with a contract for supervised release.

He was charged with aggravated furnishing of schedule drugs, a Class B felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. A second charge, unlawful furnishing of scheduled drugs, carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Colello didn’t enter pleas to the charges because they are felonies. The case is expected to be presented to an Androscoggin County grand jury for possible indictment.

He remained in the custody of Androscoggin County Jail on Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators said in an affidavit that a fatal overdose was reported at Colello’s residence.

Auburn Police Detective Eric Bell wrote in his report that a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officer told him at Colello’s mobile home that Colello had admitted buying heroin and giving it to Amy Flood, who had overdosed.

Colello told the drug agent that he had bought four “tickets” or doses of heroin from a man he knew as “Scott,” Bell wrote.

After Bell read Colello his Miranda rights, Colello told Bell he had left the home where Flood had been staying and went to a Lewiston location to get a dose of methadone.

He met “Scott” in an Auburn parking lot, where he bought the four doses of heroin for $80, then went home, according to Bell.

There, he split his purchase with Flood, giving her two of the doses. He told Bell he and Flood both sniffed their respective doses of heroin. Twenty minutes later, Colello left home again, he told Bell.

Colello went to an apartment where Flood had lived to gather some of her belongings, he told Bell. Flood had been released four days earlier from prison in Windham, where she had been incarcerated since April.

When he returned a half-hour later to his Auburn home, he found Flood slumped in a chair, Bell wrote in his affidavit. She appeared to be asleep, Colello told him.

He leaned in to kiss her on the cheek and noticed her skin was cold, her lips blue. She was unresponsive when he tried to rouse her, Bell wrote in his affidavit.

Colello told Bell he called 911, then stretched Flood’s body on the floor and administered CPR until medics arrived. A paramedic pronounced Flood dead at the scene.

Police searched Colello’s home after he consented. Four “tickets,” identified as small pieces of paper folded and sealed with black tape, were found in the living room area, Bell wrote.

Colello, a certified medical marijuana care provider, also had plants and their harvest in his home, Bell wrote.

“Flood’s death marks the 32nd overdose incident and fifth overdose death in Auburn this year,” Auburn Deputy Police Chief Jason Moen wrote in a news statement. “Auburn police are committed to combating this epidemic that is killing our residents.”

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