District of Maine

Contact: James M. Moore
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Oscar
Nunez, 28, of Verona Island, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawful possession of a firearm.

Court records reveal that on July 23, 2012, investigators found a High Point .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun during the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s Verona
Island residence. A Maine State Police Crime Lab forensic analyst found the defendant’s DNA on the handgun. The defendant was prohibited from possessing the handgun because of a prior felony conviction in New York for the criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Nunez faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives, the Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the
Maine State Police as well as the Hancock and Penobscot County Sheriff Departments.

Contact: Benjamin M. Block
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Anthony Thea, 20, of Portland, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transportation and possession of child pornography.

According to court records, in August 2014, an undercover federal agent identified a computer later traced to Thea making images of child pornography available for download via a peer-to-peer file sharing program. On October 9, 2014, federal agents executed a search warrant at an apartment in South Portland where Thea occasionally stayed and seized a laptop. Thea admitted owning the laptop and using a peer-to-peer file sharing program to download images of child pornography. He also said that he had used his cellular telephone to make video recordings of minors in public restrooms and saved them on his computer.

A forensic analysis of the laptop’s hard drive revealed 2,680 still images and 903 videos of child pornography and about 80 digital recordings of minor males urinating in restrooms that
Thea recorded between June 2011 and May 2013 without the knowledge or consent of the victims.

Thea faces between five and 20 years in prison on the transportation count and up to 20 years on the possession count. He also faces a fine of up to $250,000, and supervised release of up to life on each count. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
Homeland Security Investigations, with the assistance of the South Portland Police Department.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Elizabeth Mikotowicz, 26, Bangor, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts” or “monkey dust.” Mikotowicz pleaded guilty to the charge on May 12, 2014.

According to court records, between April and December 2011, the defendant illegally distributed MDPV in Penobscot County and elsewhere. The defendant distributed MDPV to others who were using and selling the drug in the Bangor area. Mikotowicz is one of eighteen defendants who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Ryan Ellis to distribute the drug. Ellis previously pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Contact: Gail Fisk Malone
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Patrick
Curley, 51, of Passaic, New Jersey, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to two years in prison and one year of supervised release for extortion. He pled guilty on April 7, 2013.

According to court documents, in March 2010, Curley applied on-line for a job with
Vescom, a Hampden, Maine-based security firm. On April 21, 2010, Curley met Vescom’s
Senior Vice President for a job interview in New York. In e-mails and a voice message left after the interview, he expressed ongoing interest in the job. On April 27, however, he e-mailed
Vescom’s Senior Vice President and falsely accused her of sexual harassment and discrimination and threatened to sue. In the months that followed, both he and an attorney representing him contacted Vescom employees and staff counsel seeking $130,000 to settle the claims and threatening to sue and take his claims to the media if they could not reach a financial settlement. Curley’s claims of sexual harassment and discrimination were false and were intended to extort money from Vescom.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Contact: David B. Joyce
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Portland indicted Tasheem Carter, 29, of Far Rockaway, New York and Lewiston, Maine, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and oxycodone and
Christian Dent, 31, of Far Rockaway and Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Also charged were Sabree Branch, 23, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lewiston, for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession of cocaine base, and unlawful use of a communication facility; Michael Boney, 28, of Far Rockaway and Auburn, Maine, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; Isar Coleman, 31, of Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; Angela
Crabtree, 32, of Auburn, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; Katelynn
Dubois, 21, of Wales, Maine, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone; Lee Eirby, 66, of
Lewiston, for maintaining a drug-involved premises; Isaac Fofie, 26, of New Sharon, Maine, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin; Kourtney Francoeur, 21, of
Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; Jamel Hamilton, of Far Rockaway, for conspiracy to distribute heroin; Willie Jackson, 32, of Lewiston, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; Rebecca Thompson, 33, of Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; and Barney Whitfield, 33, of Lewiston, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin.

According to court records, the charges arise out of the distribution of cocaine and heroin in the greater Lewiston/Auburn area. This morning, federal, state and local agents arrested
Branch, Coleman, Crabtree, Dubois, Eirby, Fofie, Francoeur, Hamilton, Jackson, Thompson and
Whitfield while executing warrants. Carter, Dent and Boney were all previously arrested on criminal complaints. The defendants arrested today will make their initial appearances in the
U.S. District Court in Portland today.

Dent faces between five and 40 years in prison, a $4,000,000 fine and supervised release for life on the drug charge or between 10 years and life and an $8,000,000 fine if he has a prior felony drug conviction. On the gun charge, Dent also faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and three years of supervised release. Branch faces between five years and life, a fine of $250,000 and five years of supervised release on the gun charge, up to 1 year, a $100,000 fine and up to 1 year of supervised release on the possession charge and up to 4 years, a
$250,000 fine and supervised release of up to one year on the communication facility charge.
Eirby faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. The other defendants face up to 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine and supervised release for life.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency; the Lewiston and
Auburn Police Departments; the Maine State Police; and the Southern Maine Gang Task Force comprised of agents and officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations; and the Portland and Biddeford Police Departments.

An indictment or criminal complaint is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

Press Alert: On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, at 10:30a.m, U.S. Attorney Delahanty, Lewiston Police Chief Michael Bussiere and Androscoggin County District Attorney Andrew
Robinson will hold a press conference regarding these cases at the Lewiston Police Department, 171 Park Street, Lewiston, Maine. Media members should arrive by 10:20 a.m. and will be asked to provide identification credentials.

A federal grand jury in sitting in Portland indicted Tasheem Carter, 29, of Far Rockaway, New York, and Lewiston, Maine, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and oxycodone and Christian Dent, 31, of Far Rockaway and Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today.

Also charged were Sabree Branch, 23, of Philadelphia and Lewiston, for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession of cocaine base and unlawful use of a communication facility; Michael Boney,  28, of Far Rockaway and Auburn, Maine, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; Isar Coleman, 31, of Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; Angela Crabtree, 32, of Auburn, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; Katelynn Dubois, 21, of Wales, Maine, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone; Lee Eirby, 66, of Lewiston, for maintaining a drug-involved premises; Isaac Fofie, 26, of New Sharon, Maine, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin; Kourtney Francoeur, 21, of Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; Jamel Hamilton, of Far Rockaway, for conspiracy to distribute heroin; Willie Jackson, 32, of Lewiston, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; Rebecca Thompson, 33, of Lewiston, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; and Barney Whitfield, 33, of Lewiston, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin.

According to court records, the charges arise out of the distribution of cocaine and heroin in the greater Lewiston and Auburn area.  This morning, federal, state and local agents arrested Branch, Coleman, Crabtree, Dubois, Eirby, Fofie, Francoeur, Hamilton, Jackson, Thompson and Whitfield while executing warrants.  Carter, Dent and Boney were all previously arrested on criminal complaints.  The defendants arrested today will make their initial appearances in the U.S. District Court in Portland today.

Dent faces between five and 40 years in prison, a $4 million fine and supervised release for life on the drug charge or between 10 years and life in prison and an $8 million fine if he has a prior felony drug conviction.  On the gun charge, Dent also faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and three years of supervised release.  For the gun charge, Branch faces between five years and life in prison, a fine of $250,000 and five years of supervised release; for the possession charge, Branch faces up to one year in prison, a $100,000 fine and up to one year of supervised release; and for the communication facility charge, faces up to four years in prison, a $250,000 fine and supervised release of up to one year.  Eirby faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release for maintaining a drug-involved premises.  The other defendants face up to 20 years in prison, a $1 million fine and supervised release for life.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Lewiston and Auburn Police Departments, the Maine State Police, the Southern Maine Gang Task Force comprised of agents and officers from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Portland and Biddeford Police Departments.

An indictment or criminal complaint is merely an accusation and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, at 10:30 a.m, U.S. Attorney Delahanty, Chief Michael Bussiere for the Lewiston Police and District Attorney Andrew Robinson for Androscoggin County will hold a press conference regarding these cases at the Lewiston Police Department at 171 Park Street in Lewiston.  Media members should arrive by 10:20 a.m., and will be asked to provide identification credentials.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank
Curtis, 35, formerly of Canaan, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and oxycodone.

According to court records, between January 2010 and March 2012, Curtis conspired with Maurice McCray, William Waters and others in Waterville, Maine and surrounding communities to obtain cocaine and oxycodone from out-of-state dealers, bring it to Central
Maine and distribute it.

The defendant faces up to 20 year in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine
Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the Waterville Police Department.

Contact: David B. Joyce
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that
Barry Diaz, 32, of Stamford, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by
Judge John A. Woodcock, to 22½ years in prison to be followed by 6 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and unlawful use of a telephone. Diaz pleaded guilty to the charges on December 20, 2013.

According to Court documents, Diaz and others acquired oxycodone pills outside of
Maine. Some of these pills were obtained from people in Connecticut who diverted lawfully issued oxycodone prescriptions. Others were obtained in bulk from California and elsewhere.
The pills were transported to Maine by Diaz or other conspirators working with him and were given to street level dealers for distribution in Kennebec County and elsewhere. During the investigation, law enforcement officers seized more than 600 30-mg oxycodone pills from members of the conspiracy.

According to the evidence presented at the trial of Diaz’s co-defendant, Mark Razo, Diaz and Razo operated the interstate drug conspiracy while Razo was serving a drug sentence in a
California state prison. Razo used contraband cellular telephones from inside the prison to arrange transactions, recruit couriers and cause the transport of drugs across the United
States. Diaz was Razo’s point person for distribution of drugs across the country. A four pound methamphetamine shipment that was seized in Iowa was among the drug shipments orchestrated by Diaz and Razo.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the
Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, the Southeast Iowa Drug Task Force, the Wapello County
(Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, investigators from the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the Stamford (Connecticut) Police Department, the Augusta (Maine) Police
Department, and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. The investigation was part of the ongoing effort of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The principal mission of the
OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that April
Kane, 29, formerly of Bucksport, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge
John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 45 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts” or “monkey dust.”

According to court records, between April and December 2011, the defendant illegally distributed MDPV in Penobscot County and elsewhere. The defendant distributed MDPV to others who were using and selling the drug in the Bangor area. On November 3, 2011, she was arrested by the Veazie Police Department after she was found in possession of over 180 grams of
MDPV, prescription drugs, marijuana, cash and a stun gun. Kane is one of eighteen defendants who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Ryan Ellis to distribute the drug. Ellis previously pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Veazie Police Department.

Contact: Darcie N. McElwee
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
William McBroom-Stees, 43, of Springfield, Missouri was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District
Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for interstate stalking. McBroom-Stees pleaded guilty to the charge on September 23, 2014.

Court records reveal between November 9 and November 21, 2013, McBroom-Stees made threatening telephone calls from Missouri to his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child while she was driving from Illinois to Rockland, Maine, where she was relocating. In the calls and text messages, McBroom-Stees threatened to kill and harm her, her immediate family, and others.
On November 13, McBroom-Stees threatened that if she did not return to Missouri by their child’s birthday, he would “start the worst f***ing bloodbath in America” and dared the police to come after him. That call was recorded by the victim with the help of a Knox County Sheriff’s
Office detective. Phone records revealed McBroom-Stees placed hundreds of calls and sent numerous text messages to the victim, many of which were threatening, causing substantial emotional distress to the victim and her family.

The investigation was conducted by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, the Rockland
Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wayne
E. Boulier, Jr., 34, of Presque Isle, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief
Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to seven years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Boulier pleaded guilty to the charge on February 24, 2014.

Court records reveal that on the evening of April 6, 2013, the defendant went to a bar in
Presque Isle. A bouncer at the pub approached the defendant, told him that he needed to leave and escorted him to the door. As the defendant fell onto the sidewalk outside, he pulled up his shirt and pulled out a loaded pistol. A bar patron and a second bouncer restrained the defendant and took the pistol from him. Boulier was prohibited from possessing firearms because he had
12 prior state felony convictions.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms &
Explosives, the Presque Isle Police Department and the Maine State Police.

Contact: Darcie N. McElwee
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: PRESS ALERT: Gregory Owens, 58, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was arrested yesterday on charges filed in U.S. District Court of interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in connection with a home invasion shooting on December 18, 2014, at a residence in Saco, Maine. Owens will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland today at 11:00 a.m.

Contact: Julia M. Lipez
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Marco
Gordon, a/k/a “D,” a/k/a “Detroit,” 34, of Detroit, Michigan; William Weston, a/k/a “Wild,”
34, of Portland; Russell Gordon, a/k/a “Murder,” a/k/a “M1,” a/k/a “Black,” a/k/a “B,” 31, of Ansonia, Connecticut and Portland were arrested in Portland today and charged in U.S.
District Court by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as, crack cocaine. Kristi Lowell, 30, of Portland, was also arrested in Portland today and charged by criminal complaint with maintaining a place to make, distribute and use controlled substances.

According to court records, the charges arise out of the distribution of crack cocaine in
Portland. This morning, federal, state and local agents arrested the four while executing warrants. The defendants will make their initial appearances in the U.S. District Court in
Portland today.

Russell Gordon faces between five and 40 years in prison and a $5,000,000 fine. Lowell faces up to 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. The other two defendants face up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine, or up to 30 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine if they have a prior felony drug conviction.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Portland, Biddeford and Lewiston Police Departments; the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency; the Maine
State Police; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives. The Portland Police Department Special Reaction Team assisted federal agents with the entry and arrests.

A criminal complaint is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John
Tapley, 58, of Sedgwick, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S District Court in Bangor to possession of child pornography.

Court records and proceedings reveal that in January of 2013, Tapley brought his laptop computer to a computer repair shop for service. A service technician found sexually suggestive images of prepubescent girls on the computer and reported it to the police. Law enforcement agents obtained a search warrant for the computer and found images and videos of child pornography.

Tapley faces a minimum of 10 years and up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He faces an enhanced sentence because of two prior Maine Superior Court convictions for unlawful sexual contact. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit, and the Ellsworth Police
Department.

Contact: Donald E. Clark
Gail Fisk Malone
Assistant United States Attorneys
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Bangor, Maine: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that James M.
Cameron, 52, formerly of Hallowell, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief
Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to 15 and 3/4 years in prison to be followed by six years of supervised release. On August 23, 2010, following a six-day bench trial, the defendant was found guilty by Chief Judge Woodcock of 13 counts of transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography. Following the conviction, the defendant was jailed. He was indicted on
February 11, 2009.

The Indictment arose out of four types of activity that occurred over a 17-month period between July 2006 and December 2007: (1) the uploading of child pornography images and videos by the defendant from a computer in his residence to Yahoo! photo albums and briefcases he created; (2) the sending and receiving of child pornography over Google Hello, a free chat and file sharing computer program, by the defendant using laptop computers he carried while on trips and family vacations; (3) the receipt by the defendant of e-mails containing child pornography; and (4) the possession of child pornography on computers found at his residence.
All of the computers were seized from his residence on December 21, 2007 during the execution of a search warrant.

On March 10, 2011, Chief Judge Woodcock sentenced the defendant to 16 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. On August 9, 2011, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (“1st
Circuit”) granted the defendant’s motion to be released on bail pending appeal and he was released on August 11, 2011. On that same date, Chief Judge Woodcock set bail conditions including that the defendant submit to active GPS location monitoring. On November 14, 2012, the 1st Circuit reversed the defendant’s convictions on six counts but affirmed his convictions on the seven remaining counts. As a result, the defendant remained convicted of transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography.

Following 1st Circuit’s decision on the appeal, the defendant cut off his GPS location monitoring bracelet and fled in violation of the bail order. On December 2, 2012, he was arrested by United States Marshals in New Mexico and thereafter returned to Maine. On
February 19, 2013, he pled guilty to Criminal Contempt for violating the bail order.

From August 1990 until April 2008, the defendant worked as an Assistant Attorney
General for the State of Maine, primarily handling drug prosecutions.

At re-sentencing, Chief Judge Woodcock found that the offenses involved 150-300 child pornography images, that the images depicted prepubescent children, sadistic and other violent conduct, that the defendant traded the images in order to obtain such images from others, that the defendant did not accept responsibility for his conduct by waiting to admit his guilt until after he was convicted and that the defendant obstructed justice when he fled.

The Office of the United States Attorney praised the investigation conducted by the
Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit and the United States Marshals Service.

Contact: Daniel J. Perry
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gary
Prolman, Esq., 52, of Saco, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z.
Singal to two years in prison and two years of supervised release for conspiracy to launder
$177,500 worth of marijuana trafficking proceeds. Prolman pled guilty on April 29, 2014.

According to court records, between 2011 and October 2013, David Jones and others illegally distributed hundreds of pounds of marijuana in Maine and elsewhere. Between June and
September 2012, Prolman laundered about $177,500 worth of those drug proceeds by: (1) taking cash from Jones to purchase an interest in Prolman’s sports agency business; (2) illegally structuring cash deposits and cashier’s check purchases to avoid federal currency reporting requirements; and (3) using structured cashier’s checks to jointly purchase real estate with Jones in a transaction where only Prolman’s name appeared on the deed as the owner.

Prolman received three separate $50,000 cash installment payments, largely consisting of low denomination bills delivered in a backpack. When Prolman attempted to deposit more than
$10,000 from the first $50,000 installment into bank accounts he controlled, a bank teller advised him of the federal currency reporting requirement for deposits exceeding $10,000. Under federal law, financial institutions that receive more than $10,000 in cash from a customer are required to report the transaction to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Structuring occurs when a customer breaks up cash transactions into multiple increments of less than $10,000 to avoid this cash transaction reporting requirement. Structuring is illegal under federal law and is commonly associated with the laundering of drug proceeds. After being advised of the reporting requirement by the bank teller, Prolman structured numerous cash deposits and paid $60,409 to close the joint real estate purchase using seven structured cashier’s checks.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the IRS, and resulted from the ongoing effort of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces
(OCDETF), a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lamar
Young, 27, of Lewiston, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

According to court records, in late 2012 and early 2013, Young and other individuals sold crack cocaine out of an apartment in Lewiston. Young and other members of the conspiracy bought crack cocaine and cocaine powder from suppliers in Massachusetts, brought it to Maine, cooked the powder into crack cocaine, packaged it for distribution, and sold it.

In March of this year, Young was arrested in the bedroom of an apartment in Lewiston.
After his arrest, officers found a digital scale and several plastic bags containing cocaine powder and crack cocaine in a dresser drawer in the bedroom. Officers also found a Hi-Point .380 caliber pistol in the bedroom that Young kept to protect the drug operation.

Young faces a sentence of between 5 and 40 years in prison and a $5,000,000 fine on the drug conspiracy charge. He faces a sentence of no less than 5 years, to be imposed to run consecutively to his drug conspiracy sentence, and a $250,000 fine on the firearm charge. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation
Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives; the Lewiston Police Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Contacts: Julia M. Lipez, Richard W. Murphy
Assistant United States Attorneys
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Robert Thompson, 53, of Rockwood, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to federal income tax evasion and illegally selling lobster charges.

Court records reveal that between 2008 and 2011, Thompson was the dock manager for the Spruce Head Fisherman’s Co-op in South Thomaston, Maine. In that capacity, Thompson illegally bought lobsters from Co-op members for cash, rather than buying and selling those lobsters through the Co-op system. Thompson resold the lobsters he bought for cash to J.P.’s
Shellfish, a seafood distributor in Eliot, Maine. Thompson was not a licensed seafood dealer, making the sales to J.P.’s Shellfish illegal under Maine law. Under the federal Lacey Act, it is illegal to sell lobsters in violation of state law. Thompson also failed to report his profit from these side deals as income on his federal income tax return thus evading over $49,000 in income taxes.

Thompson faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine on the Lacey Act charge and up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the tax evasion charge. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The charges are the result of a collaborative investigation conducted by the Internal
Revenue Service; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Law
Enforcement; and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

Contact: David B. Joyce
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Matthieu O’Rourke, a/k/a “Tony Angeless,” age 36, of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S.
District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release for bank robbery. O’Rourke pleaded guilty on June 11, 2014.

According to court records, on September 27, 2014, O’Rourke entered a Key Bank branch located in Portland wearing a bright construction vest, sunglasses, a hat and carrying a hard hat. He walked to a teller window and presented a note stating, in substance: “I’m a crazy person. No one will be hurt as long as you give me the money out of both drawers.” The teller complied and gave O’Rourke about $1,280. On October 30, 2013, O’Rourke was arrested in
Rivera Beach, Florida.

At the sentencing hearing, O’Rourke was subject to an enhanced sentence as a career offender. His prior convictions included a 1998 conviction for solicitation to commit murder for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison.

This case was investigated by the Portland Police Department, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the United States Marshals Service.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael
Thompson, 27, of Dexter, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to robbing a
Rite Aid pharmacy in Guilford, Maine.

According to court records, on March 10, 2012, Thompson entered the Rite Aid pharmacy wearing a bandana, hood, sunglasses and gloves. He jumped over the pharmacy counter, brandished a large hunting style knife and demanded narcotics. A pharmacist opened the locker containing narcotics and Thompson filled his back pack with more than $500 worth of drugs.

The defendant faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine
State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James
F. Ford, 59, of Monroe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A.
Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a drug involved premises, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Ford was found guilty after a jury trial on
November 21, 2013.

Court proceedings revealed that in November 2011 a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s home in Monroe where agents found a large and sophisticated indoor marijuana growing operation and two rifles. Trial evidence revealed that the defendant and other family members conspired to grow hundreds of marijuana plants at the residence. The defendant, a convicted felon, also illegally possessed the two rifles found at the residence.

The investigation was conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John
Whittenburg, 62, of Buxton, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to receiving child pornography.

According to court records, in April 2012, investigators looking into the sharing of child pornography over the internet interviewed Whittenburg at his home in Buxton. Whittenburg admitted that he had downloaded child pornography and consented to a search of his residence.
Investigators found numerous child pornography files stored on his electronic equipment, including a video file depicting a minor female engaged in sexual activity that he had downloaded in October 2011 using a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.

Whittenburg faces a sentence of no less than 5 years and no more than 20 years in prison, up to a $250,000 fine and supervised release of up to life. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit and the U.S. Secret Service.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jessica
Bryden, 22, of Greenbush was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John
A. Woodcock, Jr. to 97 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts” or “monkey dust.” Bryden pleaded guilty on April 15, 2014.

According to court records, between April and December 2011, the members of the conspiracy illegally distributed large quantities of MDPV in Penobscot, Aroostook and Knox counties. The defendant packaged and distributed MDPV to other members of the conspiracy who were selling the drug in the Bangor area. She also collected payment for the drug from other members of the conspiracy. Bryden is one of eighteen defendants who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Ryan Ellis and others to distribute the drug. Ellis previously pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.

In imposing sentence, Chief Judge Woodcock referenced “the staggering scope of
Bryden’s involvement in dealing bath salts,” said the government was appropriate to characterize the defendant and her one time boyfriend and co-defendant, Ryan Ellis, as the “Bonnie and
Clyde of bath salts,” and observed that “you and Mr. Ellis have had a permanent, profound and deleterious impact on this area.”

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Brewer and Bangor Police Departments.

Contact: Donald E. Clark
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that the District of Maine collected $1,525,980 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $847,901.95 was collected in criminal actions and $678,078.23 was collected in civil actions.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday that the Justice Department collected
$24.7 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014. More than
$24 billion in collections in FY 2014 represents nearly eight and a half times the appropriated
$2.91 billion budget for the 94 U.S. Attorney’s offices and the main litigating divisions in that same period.

“Every day, the Justice Department’s federal prosecutors and trial attorneys work hard to protect our citizens, to safeguard precious taxpayer resources, and to provide a valuable return on investment to the American people,” said Attorney General Holder. “Their diligent efforts are enabling us to achieve justice and recoup losses in virtually every sector of the U.S. economy. And this result shows the fruits of the Justice Department’s tireless work in enforcing federal laws; in protecting the American people from violent crime, national security threats, discrimination, exploitation, and abuse; and in holding financial institutions accountable for their roles in causing the 2008 financial crisis.”

The U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, along with the department’s litigating divisions, are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the U.S. and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the department’s Crime
Victims’ Fund, which distributes the funds to state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.

The largest civil collections were from affirmative civil enforcement cases, in which the
United States recovered government money lost to fraud or other misconduct or collected fines imposed on individuals and/or corporations for violations of federal health, safety, civil rights or environmental laws. In addition, civil debts were collected on behalf of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Internal Revenue Service, Small Business Administration and Department of Education.

Additionally, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Maine, working with partner agencies and divisions, collected $484,379 in asset forfeiture actions in FY 2014. Forfeited assets deposited into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes.

Contact: Jim Moore
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Clyde
Eldridge, 65, of Calais, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to making a false statement to federal agents.

According to court records, Eldridge owned C&E Feeds, a feed and pet store in
Calais. In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its Canadian counterpart, Environment Canada, were investigating the illegal use of the pesticide cypermethrin. On
September 23, 2010, when asked by two EPA special agents to identify anyone to whom he had sold cypermethrin and whether he had kept records of the sales, Eldridge said he sold different amounts of cypermethrin to different people and that he did not keep track of the sales. The investigation revealed, however, that Eldridge sold cypermethrin on 10-11 occasions to one regional production manager employed by Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd., a subsidiary of Cooke
Aquaculture, and that on each occasion Eldridge made a note of the quantity picked up by the manager. In April of 2013, Cooke Aquaculture pled guilty in New Brunswick Provincial Court and paid a $490,000 fine for illegally using pesticides that killed hundreds of lobsters in waters that were about a mile from Maine’s border.

Eldridge faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced after completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division and
Environment Canada.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam
Hathorn, 36, of Bangor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A.
Woodcock, Jr. to 90 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts” or “monkey dust.” Hathorn pled guilty to the charge on April 2, 2014.

According to court records, between April and December 2011, the members of the conspiracy illegally distributed large quantities of MDPV in Penobscot, Aroostook and Knox counties. The defendant packaged and distributed MDPV to others in the Bangor area. He collected payment for the drugs and used the money to purchase additional quantities from other members of the conspiracy. Hathorn is one of eighteen defendants who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Ryan Ellis to distribute the drug. Ellis previously pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.

In imposing sentence, Chief Judge Woodcock noted that Hathorn was “involved in a very bad business” and “caused a lot of harm” to his own community.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Brewer and Bangor Police Departments.

Contact: Jim Moore
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Tonia
Smith, 42, of Perry, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to fraudulently acquiring
Hydrocodone and food stamp fraud.

According to court records, from July to November 2013, Smith used her position as a pharmacy technician at the Indian Health Service Center on Pleasant Point Reservation in Perry to steal the pain medication Hydrocodone from the pharmacy and then shredded records that the pharmacy was required to keep in order to conceal her thefts. The investigation also revealed that from January to November 2013, Smith bought EBT cards from food stamp recipients for amounts less than the credit assigned to each card and then used the cards to make unauthorized purchases.

Smith faces up to 4 years in prison on the drug charge, up to 5 years in prison on the food stamp fraud charge and a fine of up to $250,000 on each charge. She will be sentenced after completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Offices of Inspector General of the U.S.
Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture and the Pleasant Point Police
Department.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William
Waters, 33, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge
John A. Woodcock, Jr., to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. Waters pled guilty on March 31, 2014.

Court records reveal that on March 15, 2013, the defendant and Ebony Howard were encountered by officers with the Waterville Police Department who had information that Waters and Howard were travelling with a large number oxycodone tablets. Waters and Howard were driven to police headquarters where officers seized 645 oxycodone 30 mg tablets from
Howard. Waters admitted that Howard was doing him a favor transporting the pills, that he got them in New York City and that he intended to distribute them to customers in Maine. At sentencing, Waters was identified as a courier for a central Maine drug dealer, Maurice McCray, who was sentenced yesterday.

In imposing sentence, Chief Judge Woodcock told Waters that his name was “all over the
Maurice McCray case” and told him the March 15th event in Waterville was “not a one-time event.”

The case was investigated by the Waterville Police Department, with assistance from the
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel
Hines, 38, of Bangor was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor by Chief Judge John A.
Woodcock, Jr. to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts” or “monkey dust.”

According to court records, between April and December 2011, the members of the conspiracy illegally distributed large quantities of MDPV in Penobscot, Aroostook and Knox counties. The defendant obtained MDPV from other members of the conspiracy and traded, sold or otherwise distributed it to others. In November 2011, following the search of a co- conspirator’s residence in Bangor and the seizure of a large amount of MDPV, the defendant assisted another person in removing from the residence MDPV that the police had not found during their search. This additional quantity of MDPV was eventually distributed to another person, who was later caught by law enforcement. Hines is one of eighteen defendants who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Ryan Ellis and others to distribute the drug. Ellis previously pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.

The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Brewer and Bangor Police Departments.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Maurice
McCray, 34, of Waterville, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor by
Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 188 months in prison and six years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute oxycodone and 500 grams or more of cocaine. McCray pled guilty on March 26, 2013.

Court records reveal that between January 1, 2012 and March 17, 2012, McCray obtained over 500 grams of cocaine and over 6500 oxycodone tablets from New York City, transported them to Waterville himself or using numerous couriers, and distributed them in Kennebec and
Somerset Counties.

In reviewing McCray’s nearly 20 year criminal history, Chief Judge Woodcock noted that the only time McCray was not breaking the law was when he was in jail. He added that drug dealing was “a way of life and a business” for McCray who had some good personal qualities, but no “moral compass.”

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security – Office of Homeland Security Investigations; the Maine
Drug Enforcement Agency; the Maine State Police; the Police Departments of Waterville, Augusta, Fairfield, Oakland, and Skowhegan; and the Somerset and Kennebec County Sheriff’s
Offices. The Kennebec and Somerset County District Attorney’s Offices and the Office of the
Maine Attorney General also provided assistance in the investigation.

U.S. Attorney Delahanty praised the cooperation among these law enforcement agencies noting that “this interstate drug trafficking organization was dismantled because local, state, county and federal law enforcement agencies worked closely together.”

Contact: Michael J. Conley
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Billy
Schildroth, 37, of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by
Judge Nancy Torresen to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery. He pled guilty on August 1, 2014.

According to court records and evidence introduced at the plea hearing, on February 13, 2014, Kyle Desmarais drove Schildroth to a Rite Aid pharmacy located in Old Orchard Beach so that Schildroth could rob the pharmacy. Schildroth absconded with Oxycontin (oxycodone) and Suboxone (buprenorphine) after putting his hand inside his coat and telling the pharmacist that he had “a gun and five bullets” and not to alert anyone or he would shoot the pharmacist in the face.

In rendering the sentence, Judge Torresen noted the danger Schildroth’s actions posed to both the pharmacist and the community and Schildroth’s criminal history that included a residential burglary and two drug trafficking convictions.

On October 8, 2014, Desmarais was sentenced to 2½ years for aiding and abetting pharmacy robbery.

The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Old
Orchard Beach Police Department.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ebony
Howard, 29, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor by
Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 22 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone. Howard pled guilty on June 4, 2014.

Court records reveal that on March 15, 2013, the defendant and William Waters were encountered by officers with the Waterville Police Department who had information that Waters and Howard were travelling with a large number oxycodone tablets. Howard and Waters were driven to police headquarters where officers seized 645 oxycodone 30 mg tablets from
Howard. At sentencing, Howard was identified as a courier for Waters, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday. Waters worked closely with central Maine drug dealer, Maurice
McCray, who is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow.

The case was investigated by the Waterville Police Department, with assistance from the
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jay
Dandreo, 53, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge
Nancy Torresen to 18 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for willfully failing to pay child support and possessing with the intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana.
Dandreo was convicted of both charges on July 29, 2014, after a two-day jury trial.

According to evidence introduced at trial, in May 2004, the Maine Department of Health
& Human Services (MDHHS) ordered Dandreo to pay for the support of his four minor children.
Between May 2004 and November 2013, Dandreo failed to make any child support payments, resulting in an unpaid obligation of over $70,000. In August 2012, Maine Drug Enforcement
Agency (MDEA) investigators searched property located in Limerick, Maine owned by
Dandreo’s father and seized 183 marijuana plants growing at several locations on the property, as well as drug distribution paraphernalia and several firearms.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General; MDHHS, Office of Family Independence, Division of Support
Enforcement & Recovery; and MDEA.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Michael Rock, 54, of Kittery, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D.
Brock Hornby to 39 months in prison, consisting of 27 months for violating conditions of supervised release and an additional 12 months for providing a false document to his federal probation officer. Rock was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his release from prison. Rock pleaded guilty to the charges on May 8, 2014.

According to court records, in November 2013, Rock was on federal supervised release following a conviction in the District of Maine for providing false information in a credit application. He had previously been convicted twice in this district for mail fraud. As a result of his convictions, he owed over $60,000 in restitution to his victims. As part of his supervised release, Rock was required to answer truthfully all inquiries by his probation officer and provide the officer with any requested financial information. After Rock’s probation officer received information leading her to suspect that he had violated his release conditions, she instructed him to complete a financial disclosure form. On the form, Rock failed to disclose a bank account through which he conducted most of his financial activity. The officer’s investigation also revealed that Rock failed to disclose that he was paying rent for a second residence in York in addition to the residence in Kittery that he disclosed.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Probation Office.

Contact: Michael J. Conley
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Hamadi Hassan, 32, of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy
Torresen to 30 years in prison for leading a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Hassan pleaded guilty on May 12, 2014. Judge Torresen also sentenced Hassan’s co-conspirator, Biniam Tsegai, 28, of Portland, to eight years for his role in the conspiracy. Tsegai pleaded guilty on May 15, 2014.

According to court records, between November 2010 and February 2012, the defendants were part of a drug trafficking conspiracy that acquired cocaine in Boston and distributed crack cocaine in the greater Portland area. Hassan was the leader of the conspiracy, took orders for crack cocaine from customers and co-conspirators, transported cocaine from Boston to Maine, and prepared, packaged and delivered crack cocaine to his customers and co- conspirators. Tsegai prepared crack cocaine for sale and distribution after it had been brought to
Maine and he took orders for and delivered user-level quantities of crack cocaine to customers.

The defendants operated their drug trafficking ring out of hotels in the greater Portland area. They often carried firearms and held large sums of cash. They hid crack cocaine throughout the greater Portland area in milk containers or cigarette cartons left randomly on the sides of the roads, in bushes, under trees and in wooded areas. On May 16, 2011, police recovered over 20 grams of defendants’ crack cocaine inside a cigarette box located in the play area of a local day care facility.

Judge Torresen noted that Hassan’s lengthy criminal history, including three prior convictions for drug trafficking and violent crimes, and his violent nature warranted the lengthy sentence imposed on him. According to evidence presented at the sentencing hearing, Hassan threw a female co-conspirator to the ground and broke her ribs by stomping on them because of an unpaid drug debt, choked a second female co-conspirator while promising to kill her if she cooperated with authorities, and forced a third female co-conspirator to sell narcotics from her hospital bed while she was admitted. Hassan was subject to an enhanced sentence as a career offender.

The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
Portland Police Department, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Maine State Police and the Southern Maine Gang Task Force, which is comprised of agents and officers from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Immigration & Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Portland and Biddeford Police Departments.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Chad
Amodio, 42, of Northwood, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today in U.S District Court in
Bangor to interstate travel to have sex with a minor.

Court records and proceedings reveal that in March 2014, Amodio began having inappropriate sexual conversations on a chat website with a 13-year-old girl. Police were alerted and an undercover officer took control of the minor’s account. Amodio communicated with the undercover officer and made plans to travel from his home in New Hampshire to Maine in order to have sex at the girl’s home. Shortly after arriving at the Penobscot County address provided by the undercover officer, Amodio was arrested. Alcohol and a bottle of lubricant were found in his vehicle which he admitted purchasing in anticipation of the planned sexual encounter.

Amodio faces up to 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Bangor Police Department, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, and the Maine State Police.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Richard M. Moulton, Jr., 31, of Sanford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by
Judge Nancy Torresen to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for transporting child pornography. Moulton pleaded guilty to the charge on May 21, 2014.

According to court records, in February 2014, Moulton sent an email message to the undercover email account of a federal agent, attaching four video files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit activity and asking: “Can u send 4 back also.” Evidence presented at the sentencing hearing showed that Moulton frequently used his email account to solicit child pornography from others and to send child pornography videos and images.

In imposing sentence, Judge Torresen noted the seriousness of the crime Moulton had committed and the lasting impact that such offenses have on the children depicted in the images traded online. Judge Torresen also stated that each person who possesses or distributes such images bears some responsibility for the sexual exploitation of these children.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
Homeland Security Investigations and the Sanford Police Department. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S.
Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James
Stile, 58, of Sangerville, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Portland to pharmacy robbery.

Court records and proceedings reveal that on September 12, 2011, Stile entered the E.W.
Moore and Sons pharmacy in Bingham, Maine and pulled what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun from his pants. Stile pointed the gun at the owner and the three employees who were behind the pharmacy counter. He then ordered the three employees to lie on the floor behind the counter. A customer subsequently entered the store and Stile ordered the customer to go behind the pharmacy counter with the employees. Stile told the owner of the pharmacy to fill a bag with narcotics. As the owner filled the bag with narcotics, Stile tied the hands and feet of the customer and the three employees. Once the bag was full of narcotics, Stile instructed the owner to lie down on the floor. Stile then tied the hands and feet of the owner and fled the store.

Stile faces up to 25 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the
Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine State
Police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Contact: Julia M. Lipez
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John
W. Price, 59, of Kittery, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge D.
Brock Hornby to 45 days in prison for structuring currency transactions and for illegally purchasing lobsters. Price was also fined $100,000.

Court records reveal that between 2008 and 2010, Price, the owner of J.P.’s Shellfish, a seafood distributor in Eliot, Maine, purchased lobsters for cash from a dock employee of the
Spruce Head Fisherman’s Co-op in South Thomaston, Maine. Price directed his employees who withdrew the cash from the J.P.’s Shellfish business bank account not to withdraw more than
$10,000 in cash at any one time, so as to avoid federal regulations requiring banks to file reports involving cash transactions of more than $10,000. The dock employee who sold the lobsters to
Price was not a licensed seafood dealer, making the sales illegal under Maine law. Under the federal Lacey Act, it is illegal to purchase lobsters in violation of state law.

“This scheme to transact enormous amounts of American lobster on the black market undermines the ability of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Maine to sustainably manage this fishery, which is so critical to Maine’s overall economy,” said NOAA Special Agent in Charge Logan Gregory. “The Office of Law
Enforcement will continue to work with its state and federal partners to expose these schemes and hold the participants accountable.”

The charges are the result of a collaborative investigation conducted by the Internal
Revenue Service, NOAA, Office of Law Enforcement, and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

Contact: Halsey B. Frank
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Janis
F. Woods, 65, of Conway, New Hampshire pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to interstate transportation of stolen checks and tax evasion.

According to court documents, between 2009 and 2012, Woods used her position as bookkeeper for Grover Gundrilling, Inc., of Norway, Maine, to issue herself 169 unauthorized checks totaling over $742,000 which she deposited into a bank account in New Hampshire.
Between 2007 and 2009, she used her position as bookkeeper for VM Foods of Conway, New
Hampshire to issue herself $220,000 in unauthorized checks. By failing to report the stolen funds on her federal income tax returns, she evaded almost $284,000 in taxes.

Woods faces up to ten years in prison and twice the gain or loss as a fine for the interstate transportation charge and up to five years in prison and twice the gain or loss on the tax evasion charge. She will be sentenced after completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S.
Probation Office.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal
Revenue Service.

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard
A. Kincaid, III, of Waterbury, Connecticut was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by
Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing cocaine. He was also ordered to forfeit $3,906 and a 2008 Chevrolet Impala.

According to court records, on March 25, 2014, the defendant drove the Impala from
Connecticut to a Bangor residence to deliver about seven ounces of cocaine to an individual there. The defendant also collected money from drug customers at the residence. He was arrested a week later when he returned to Bangor.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine
Drug Enforcement Agency.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kevin
Rockwell, 31, of Leduc, Alberta, Canada, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transporting child pornography. He was indicted in May 2013.

According to court records, in April 2013, Rockwell, who was in Canada, sent an email message to the undercover email account of a federal agent in Maine, attaching a file containing
38 images of sexually explicit conduct involving young children. In May 2014, Canada ordered him extradited and surrendered to American law enforcement officials.

Rockwell faces a sentence of between five years and 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He also faces a term of supervised release of between 5 years and life. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
Homeland Security Investigations and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Benjamin A. Rossignol, 22, of Stockholm, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District
Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 22 years in prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for possessing and distributing child pornography. Rossignol pleaded guilty to the charges on May 8, 2014.

Court records reveal that in October 2013 the defendant created images of child pornography using a minor child. He sent three of those images to a covert internet investigator with the Queensland Police Service (“QPS”) in Australia. On November 8, 2013, federal and state agents executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence in Stockholm. A forensic examination of the defendant’s cell phone and his computer revealed images identical to the ones sent to the QPS investigator and other child pornography.

The investigation was conducted jointly by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit, the Bangor Police Department and the Queensland Police Service.

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jesse
Mansir, 31, of Gardiner, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to pharmacy robbery.

Court records reveal that on August 21, 2014, Mansir entered the Rite Aid Pharmacy in
Gardiner, approached the pharmacy counter and handed a threatening note to a pharmacy technician. He told the technician that he had a gun and he concealed one of his hands. The pharmacist gave Mansir two bottles of Oxycodone and he fled.

Law enforcement officers located Mansir with the aid of a K9 and recovered one of the stolen Oxycodone bottles. A Gardiner police officer identified Mansir as the robber after reviewing surveillance video from the pharmacy. Two of the pharmacy employees also identified him as the robber from a photo array.

Mansir faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Gardiner Police Department, the Maine State
Police, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John C.
Slater, 66, of Gardiner, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to bank robbery.

According to court records, on June 23, 2014, the defendant robbed $15,000 from the
Bank of Maine, in Hallowell, Maine after handing a bank employee a demand note that read: “Im Here to Rob your Bank, no silent Alarms my cell Phone rings, your all dead, I have a hand grenade, and a gun, no marked bills, or inked, if so, one day I will come back and kill all of you, do you understand.???”

The ensuing investigation identified the defendant as a suspect. On June 27, 2014, law enforcement officers executed search warrants at two locations where the defendant had been living. Those searches revealed evidence that connected the defendant to the bank robbery. On
July 9, 2014, the defendant was arrested in New Hampshire.

Slater faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and mandatory restitution. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation
Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Hallowell, Augusta and Gardiner Police
Departments; the Maine State Police; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Charles
Fourcloud, a/k/a “Arlynn E. Knudsen,” 59, of San Jose, California, was sentenced today in
U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for stealing and embezzling funds from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant
Point. He was also ordered to pay $22,571.61 in restitution. Fourcloud pleaded guilty on June
26, 2014.

Court records show that in May 2013, the defendant was hired by the tribe to serve as its chief financial officer (CFO). He applied for the CFO position using a fictitious employment history and fake references. He also concealed the facts that in 1997 he was convicted in federal court in the Western Division of South Dakota of conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft from an Indian tribal organization, theft from a program receiving federal funds, money laundering and structuring and that he served an eight year prison sentence. From April through
August 2013, the defendant fraudulently obtained and stole about $20,000 from the tribe by submitting fraudulent travel expense reports and supporting documentation and by submitting fraudulent documentation related to moving expense reimbursement.

The investigation was conducted jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Office of Inspector General and the Pleasant Point Police Department.

Contact: Donald E. Clark
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Stacey
A. Backman, 41, of Brunswick, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock
Hornby to 20 months in prison for federal program and tax fraud. She was also ordered to pay
$365,168 in restitution. She pled guilty to the offenses on June 9, 2014.

According to court records, the defendant was a fund accountant at Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI). CEI is a private, nonprofit, charitable Community Development Corporation and
Community Development Financial Institution based in Wiscasset, Maine that received more than $10,000 in federal funds each year. From 2010 to January 2014, the defendant embezzled
$365,168 from CEI and failed to report the embezzled income on her federal income tax returns. CEI learned of the embezzlement in January 2014 and terminated the defendant’s employment.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG); the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigations Division; the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, OIG; and the Wiscasset Police Department.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Perrin
Oliver, 44, of Bangor and formerly of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in U.S.
District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Oliver pleaded guilty to the charge on
December 19, 2013.

According to court records and proceedings, on July 4, 2013, Oliver, a previously convicted felon, was arrested by the police after a stand-off at his Bangor apartment. During the course of that stand-off, Oliver fired multiple rounds of ammunition from his apartment. After his arrest, officers found a Rossi .38 Special revolver in Oliver’s waistband. A safe located in
Oliver’s apartment contained a SIG Sauer .380 semi-automatic pistol and crack cocaine belonging to Oliver.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives and the Bangor Police Department.

Contact: Craig M. Wolff
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that
Michael Kurnik, 25, of York, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to traffic in counterfeit goods.

According to court records, Kurnik regularly purchased what purported to be OtterBox cell phone cases from suppliers in China and resold them to individuals in the United States.
These individuals in turn often sold the cases on eBay and other online sites. One of the resellers, who lived in Maine, told Kurnik in May 2013 that he had been contacted by OtterBox and told that he was going to be sued for selling counterfeit cases on eBay.

Despite being told of the OtterBox lawsuit, Kurnik continued to buy the phone cases from China and resell them in the United States. In December 2013, he sent a shipment of counterfeit cases to the reseller in Maine, who by that point was cooperating with law enforcement. A search warrant was executed at a warehouse in Manchester, Pennsylvania used by Kurnik and agents seized about 6,700 counterfeit OtterBox cases. Kurnik admitted in an interview that by May 2013 he knew the cases he was selling were counterfeit, but he continued buying cases from China to resell in the United States until December 2013.

Kurnik faces up to 10 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
Homeland Security Investigations.

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kevin
Lee Ross, 52, of Penobscot, Maine, was found guilty today after a one-day jury trial in U.S.
District Court of possessing child pornography.

Court proceedings revealed that in July 2011 a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s residence in Penobscot. The defendant was the only person at the residence at that time. Agents found a child pornography video playing on one of the defendant’s computers. A forensic examination of computers seized from the residence revealed thousands of images and hundreds of videos of child pornography.

Ross faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or both. He agreed to forfeit the computers. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Maine
State Police Computer Crimes Unit.