BANGOR, Maine — A Bangor man will spend five years behind bars for his role in a crack cocaine ring that stretched from New Haven, Connecticut, to Bangor, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
David Chaisson, 23, also will have to serve three years of supervised release on the conspiracy to distribute cocaine charge. He was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court.
Chaisson is responsible for selling and distributing crack cocaine in Penobscot County between January 2010 and August 2013. The half-gram bags were sold for $50 each, and the gram bags were sold for $100 each.
The source of the drugs was in the New Haven area and was transported to the Bangor area by others in the crack cocaine conspiracy group, including members and associates of the Red Side Guerilla Brims, a sect of the Bloods street gang.
Chaisson also allowed gang member Christian Turner, another member of the conspiracy group who was recently sentenced to 25 years behind bars, to live in his Old Town residence and deal crack from the location.
In addition to the sentences of Turner and Chiasson, eight other men have been indicted in connection with the cocaine ring, which saw gang members use Bangor as a market for selling and distributing the drugs.
The court held Chaisson responsible for providing a safe haven for Turner and other gang members to live as they came to the Bangor area to distribute the crack.
The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the New Haven, Office of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, and the New Haven Department of Police Services.
