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Date: 10-12-2018
Case Style:
United States of America v. Darrell Newton, a/k/a “Coast,” a/k/a “D-Coast”
Case Number: 1:17-cr-00073-JAW
Judge: John A. Woodcock
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Penobscot County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Joel Casey, Jody Mullis, Johnathan Nathans
Defendant's Attorney: Joel Vincent
Description:
Bangor, ME - New York Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin, Crack and Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy
Darrell Newton, a/k/a “Coast,” a/k/a “D-Coast,” 39, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute in excess of a kilogram of heroin, more than 280 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack,” and fentanyl.
According to court records, between June 2015 and March 2017, Newton ran a drug trafficking organization that obtained, heroin, crack and fentanyl in Rochester and distributed the drugs in Central Maine. Rochester conspirators were recruited and sent to Central Maine by the defendant to sell the drugs. Those conspirators stayed with Central Maine residents who, in exchange for crack and heroin, allowed the drugs to be sold from their residences and assisted in distributing, storing and transporting the drugs.
The defendant faces between 20 years and life in prison, a $20,000,000 fine, and between 10 years and life on supervised release. 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, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance provided by the Augusta Police Department, and prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.
Charge:
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND TO POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE HEROIN AND COCAINE BASE; 21:841(a)(1) AND 21:846
(1)
POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE HEROIN AND COCAINE BASE, AND AIDING AND ABETTING; 21:841(a)(1) AND (b)(1)(C) AND 18:2
(2)
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