ROCKLAND, Maine — A 71-year-old Connecticut man who supplied Suboxone that was smuggled into the Maine State Prison last year will serve no jail time.
Douglas Mazzotta of Middletown, Connecticut, pleaded guilty Monday in Knox County Unified Court to trafficking in Suboxone. Judge Susan Sparaco accepted a plea agreement worked out between Assistant Attorney General Katie Sibley and defense attorney Jeremy Pratt in which Mazzotta was sentenced to five years in jail with all five years suspended.
Mazzotta also was ordered to serve three years probation and was fined $400.
Neither Pratt nor Sibley would state why Mazzotta was not sentenced to any jail time.
The Connecticut man was allowed to sit down throughout the hearing because he suffers from several medical conditions, according to his attorney.
The prosecutor said if the case had gone to trial, there would have been evidence of telephone calls between Mazzotta and t he alleged ringleader inside the prison — Paul Milardo, 41, of Cushing. Milardo is serving time for a drug-related robbery.
Mazzotta, who is charged with two counts of Class A trafficking in Suboxone, mailed strips of the drug to Maine at the direction of Milardo, according to investigators. Milardo allegedly arranged with other prisoners and their relatives to have the strips smuggled into the prison, according to agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Sibley also said investigators seized a package coming from Mazzotta to a person in Maine that had Suboxone strips sealed inside a card that was to be sent to the prison.