BANGOR, Maine — A Detroit man who admitted to selling thousands of oxycodone pills was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to seven years and three months in federal prison.
Raymond “Ken” Ferris, 60, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release, according to information posted on the court’s electronic case filing system.
Ferris pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone. In exchange for the guilty plea, the U.S. attorney’s office Tuesday dismissed four other counts including drug possession and distribution charges and maintaining a drug-involved place.
By pleading guilty, Ferris admitted that between April 2013 and April 2015 he sold thousands of 30 milligram oxycodone pills in Somerset County for $40 each, according to court documents.
Ferris had been held without bail since his arrest on state drug charges 13 months ago. He is due in Somerset County court Wednesday to deal with those charges, which include drug trafficking and drug possession, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Ferris was charged in state court on April 16, 2015, after two teams of deputies from the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, along with members of the Waterville Police Department and federal Drug Enforcement Agency, executed search warrants at Ferris’ home, according to a previously published report. He was indicted by a federal grand jury the following month.
Officers reported they seized $4,000 worth of street drugs from Ferris’ home, including more than 100 30-milligram oxycodone pills, 17 bags of heroin, marijuana, prescription pills, “a large amount of drug-related paraphernalia” used to process and inject illicit drugs and $594 in cash.
Tuesday was not the first time Ferris was sentenced on a federal drug charge. In October 2006, Ferris pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than $111,000 worth of cocaine and was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison, the Bangor Daily News reported at the time. He was released May 7, 2010, and began serving four years of supervised release.
Ferris faced up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million on the 2015 conspiracy charge. Under the federal sentencing guidelines, he faced between seven years and three months and nine years in prison.
BDN writer Beth Brogan contributed to this report.