BANGOR, Maine — A local woman was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 10 years in federal prison for her role in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated out of an Ohio Street apartment.
Kizzy Fader, 35, of Bangor also was sentenced to five years of supervised release after she completes her prison term.
Fader, who was convicted in May by a jury on one count of conspiracy to distribute with the intent to possess 28 grams or more of cocaine base, is the first of more than a dozen defendants to be sentenced.
“I think there is a good person inside Kizzy Fader, but she’s been hidden by someone you didn’t want to be,” U.S. District Judge John Woodcock told Fader, the mother of four children, just before he imposed her sentence. “You’ve been putting Kizzy first. Kizzy has been putting her own desire for drugs before what’s best for her children. I think you have to think about putting other people first.”
Fader wept as Woodcock spoke.
An emotional Fader told the judge she did not turn to drugs until she was 30 after a relative was killed.
“All that hurt and pain caused me to lose my soul,” she said. “I was broken and did not know how to fix myself.”
Fader told Woodcock he would not see her again.
She is one of more than a dozen people arrested Nov. 3, 2011, after officers with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Bangor police raided adjoining apartments at 100 and 102 Ohio St. in Bangor. The investigation, which has been linked to a Dominican drug-trafficking operation based in New York City, has led to the indictment of 13 people by a federal grand jury, including Fader, according to court documents.
Woodcock on Tuesday called Fader a “midlevel dealer” who would have faced five years in prison if she had not helped distributors after the raid recover a large amount of crack cocaine police missed and hidden it in her stove.
She faced a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10 million because of the amount of crack cocaine for which the jury found her responsible.
She will enjoy her stay.
I do feel bad for the kids. Her I could care less.
Minimum sentence given out in Maine! for crack cocaine of all drugs.
I wonder what value judgments of where to expand their drug networks Dominican and other Caribbean drug dealers are making when they read ‘get caught in Maine, get a minimum sentence’, contrasted to others states in the country that are giving out lengthy sentences.
‘Welcome to Maine, Open for minimum jail sentences for Drugs dealing’
And if it had been powder cocaine her sentence would have been a fragment of what it is for crack. Ahh, the vagaries of the federal sentencing guidelines.
It may be that crack is instantly addictive and the user can think of nothing else, while powdered is a slow addiction (and psychological, I’m told).
Or it may be that most crack offenders are black and powder cocaine offenders are white.
Most sex offenders of children are White. Virtually all vandalism sprees are done by whites. Virtually all graveyard sprees of knocking over tombstones are done by whites. Embezzlement crimes,whites.Stock fraud,whites.Robbing pension money,whites.Real estate crimes, whites.
It was a Federal offense tried and sentenced in a Federal court to be served in a Federal prison.
Too bad for her she was in federal court. If she had been in a Maine state court, her weeping and self-serving statements probably would have worked and got her a far shorter sentence.
If it was a county court she would have received 90 days suspended.
Ten years, Federal? That’ll hold her.
or she will crack up !
From the article: An emotional Fader told the judge she did not turn to drugs until she was 30 after a relative was killed.
I have a feeling that was not the reason.
Good. Clamp down on these crack heads. Maine has changed so much in the past twenty years.
Who would vote this down? You want these people selling crack in your neighborhood?
Picture?
It’s really too bad. Her FB page is filled wth angry, bitter posts despite her claim to ‘live her life right by God’. I hope she gets the help to find her way, because as of now her kids are going to have 5 years without a Mama.
Read it again,it’s 10 years
Oops. I read the 5 yr part too quickly and thought is was one of those ’10 yrs with all but 5 suspended’ foolish sentences.
No lenience for drug dealers should ever be allowed. Dealers are scum and destroy families each time they hook a person into using drugs. Her kids will be better off away from her.