Bradley Bellfleur, 33, of Bangor, was sentenced on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to six years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl.

Bellfleur was enrolled in the Penobscot Adult Treatment and Recovery Court as part of his sentence for a 2022 burglary conviction when investigators received information that he was trafficking fentanyl, according to court records cited by the U.S. Department of Justice in a news release.

Police searched Bellfleur’s home and found drug trafficking paraphernalia, according to the DOJ. Additionally, the department said messages obtained from his cell phone showed that he was working with people in Massachusetts to get fentanyl to distribute in the Bangor area.

Bellfleur was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine in 2016, according to the DOJ.

 

Ethan Andrews is the night editor. He was formerly the managing editor at The Free Press and worked as a reporter for The Republican Journal and Pen Bay Pilot.