Bangor Man Sentenced for Misdemeanor Cocaine Possession in Acadia National Park

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Bangor Man Sentenced for Misdemeanor Cocaine Possession in Acadia National Park

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Oct. 9, 2014. It is reproduced in full below.

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Glenn

G. Watson, 63, of Bangor, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to four

months in prison and one year of supervised release and fined $1,736 for cocaine possession. He

was also ordered to pay the costs of the testing the cocaine seized from him. The defendant

pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2014.

On June 24, 2014, Watson was in a vehicle parked in Acadia National Park. A ranger

approached the vehicle and smelled marijuana. The defendant admitted smoking marijuana and

having it in the vehicle and agreed to a search of the vehicle. The ranger found four grams of

cocaine in the vehicle and seized $2,001 from the defendant and the vehicle.

The case was investigated by the U.S. National Park Service.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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