ROCKLAND, Maine — Two people charged with drug offenses in Rockland will be serving jail time following hearings Tuesday.
Kevin W. Nelson, 26, of Union was sentenced in Knox County Superior Court by Justice Daniel Billings to four years in jail with all but six months suspended for trafficking in drugs, namely the stimulant Adderall. Nelson also was placed on probation for two years, fined $400 and ordered to repay the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency $255 to replace funds used to make undercover drug purchases from him.
Assistant Attorney General Katie Sibley said Nelson sold Adderall pills to an informant who was working for the drug enforcement agency. Nelson originally was charged with six additional drug transactions from the spring of 2014, but those were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Also on Tuesday, Felicia Timoteo, 22, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to trafficking in oxycodone pills in December 2013 in Rockland.
Sibley said an agreement in her case calls for Timoteo to be sentenced to 12 months in jail and fined $400. The official sentencing will occur in April to allow for coordination with an expected probation violation action by the federal government. Timoteo was on federal probation for a 2012 drug conviction in Massachusetts at the time of her arrest in Rockland.
Timoteo’s arrest came after police responded to a fight at the Trade Winds Motor Inn. Upon investigation, police learned a man from Owls Head confronted Cameron Soto, 22, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, for selling drugs to his sister. Police eventually found 24 grams of crack cocaine and 162 oxycodone pills in Timoteo’s room at the motel.
Soto was convicted last year of drug trafficking and sentenced in September to three years in prison. Sibley said Timoteo had come to Rockland with Soto, who was selling the drugs.