PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jeffrey Pare, 29, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to trafficking Oxycodone. Pare pleaded guilty as charged in a federal indictment returned on Aug. 19, 2015, to three counts of distribution of Oxycodone.
Appearing before U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., Pare admitted to the court that on three occasions, between July 17 and Aug. 14, 2014, he sold Oxycodone tablets to an undercover Providence Police Department detective assigned to the Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force. According to information presented to the court, on July 17, 2014, Pare sold the undercover law enforcement officer 69 Oxycodone tablets in exchange for $2,100 in cash; on July 25, 2014, Pare sold 200 tablets to the undercover officer for $5,800 in cash; and on Aug. 14, 2014, Pare sold the undercover officer 491 Oxycodone tablets in exchange for $22,400 in cash. All of the transactions occurred in Woonsocket.
Pare’s guilty plea is announced by Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Woonsocket Acting Police Chief Captain Michael R. Lemoine, and Providence Police Chief Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
Pare was charged by way of a federal criminal complaint and arrested by DEA Drug Task Force agents and Woonsocket Police on July 15, 2015. At his initial appearance in U.S. District Court on July 22, 2015, Pare was ordered released on $50,000 unsecured bond to home confinement with electronic monitoring. Pare, who remains on home confinement, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., on Aug. 18, 2016.
