Bangor, Maine: A Portland man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute cocaine and oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen sentenced Ross Thompson, 33, formerly of Rangeley, Maine, to time served (one day) and three years of supervised release. Thompson pleaded guilty in March 2019.
According to court records, between January 2016 and July 2016, Thompson and others conspired to distribute cocaine and oxycodone in Franklin County. Thompson distributed drugs supplied by Jordan Richard, who was sentenced to over 13 years in federal prison in January 2019.
Following an incident on July 28, 2016, when Richard shot and killed one of two men who came to his Rangeley residence to rob him, Thompson spirited a large quantity of drugs out of the residence before law enforcement arrived on the scene. Thompson subsequently distributed the drugs to another dealer Richard was supplying.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Maine State Police; and the Rangeley Police Department investigated the case, with assistance provided by the Maine Office of the Attorney General. The case was investigated and prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
