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Date: 02-02-2022
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Case Number: 1:21-cr-00083-JAW
Judge: John A. Woodcock, Jr.
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Penobscot County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Bangor, Maine criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged for maintaining a drug-involved premises and distributing fentanyl.
Brenda J. Shaboski, 65, of Bangor, pleaded guilty on July 19, 2021.
Shaboski owned 1702 Union Street in Bangor, a residence referred to locally as “the farm.” From June through December 2020, the location was used by Shaboski and others to buy, sell, and use heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base. Individuals renting from Shaboski or staying at her house sold and used drugs, and the vehicle and visitor traffic to the location was primarily drug related. The residence was used by drug distributers as a location to “cook” powder cocaine into crack. In March 2021, Shaboski also arranged fentanyl sales from her home.
In imposing the sentence, Judge Woodcock told the defendant, “There is no way to overstate the impact of these poisonous and addictive substances on this country and on Maine in particular.” The Court noted that Shaboski “had encouraged what amounts to a virus in the body politic of this community” with the “staggering amount of illegal drugs” involved at her home.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigated the case. The Financial Litigation Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office will receive $23,372 in sale proceeds resulting from the forfeiture of Shaboski’s residence.
USING, MAINTAINING AND MANUFACTURING A DRUG-INVOLVED PREMISES; 21:8/56(a)(1) AND (a)(2)
(1)
DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL AND AIDING AND ABETTING; 21:841(a)(1) AND 841(b)(1)(C)
(2)
Outcome: Defendant sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment on each of Counts 1 and 2 to be served concurrently, 3 years supervised release on each of Counts 1 and 2 to be served concurrently, $200.00 special assessment.
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