BANGOR, MAINE — A Rockland woman was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Thursday for dealing crack cocaine as part of a group of 11 people charged last year.
Jackie Madore, 46, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor by Judge John Woodcock to 110 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.”
In a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty II, from January 2010 to August 2013, Madore conspired to distribute almost a kilogram of crack in Penobscot County and elsewhere. She sold half-gram bags for $50 and gram bags for $100, according to the prosecutor.
Madore transferred proceeds from her sales to her source of supply in the New Haven, Connecticut, area and got cash and crack in exchange. The crack was transported from Connecticut to the Bangor area by other conspirators. Members of the conspiracy from New Haven included members of the Red Side Guerilla Brims, a violent street gang affiliated with the Almighty Blood Nation, a national street gang, according to Delahanty.
Madore was one of 11 people indicted in February 2015 on drug and weapons offenses. Madore pleaded guilty in June 2015 to the drug charge.
Meanwhile, Christian Turner, 44, of Orono and formerly New Haven, Connecticut, received a 300-month sentence for drug dealing and violating federal firearm laws. David Chaisson, 23, of Bangor, got a 60-month prison sentence. Jeremy Ingersoll-Meserve, 38, of Waldoboro, was sentenced in July to 41 months. Wendell White, 49, of Rumford, pleaded guilty in July to a drug charge and is awaiting sentencing. Akeen Ocean, 23, of Bangor and Jermaine Mitchell, 44, of Orono pleaded guilty in June to drug charges and are awaiting sentencing.
The case of the alleged ringleader, Jeffrey Benton, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, is pending in federal court in Connecticut.
Prosecutors say that the group was obtaining guns in Maine by lying about whom the guns were for and then bringing them to Connecticut.
The case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the New Haven Office of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the New Haven Department of Police Services.