Portland, Maine:
United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sierrha Frisbie,
26, of Auburn, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to
distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
According to court records, between November 2015 and
September 2017, the defendant conspired with others to acquire heroin in
Massachusetts and New York and to distribute it in the greater Portland and
Lewiston areas. In December 2015, she was arrested by troopers on the turnpike
at the York toll plaza and found to have 38 grams of heroin in her possession.
The defendant faces up to 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000
fine, and between five years and life on supervised release. She will be
sentenced after the completion of a pre-sentence investigation report by the
U.S Probation Office.
The case was investigated by the Portland and South Portland
Police Departments, the Maine State Police, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, and the Maine Drug
Enforcement Agency. The Cumberland and York County District Attorney’s Offices
assisted with the prosecution. This case
was prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Combat the
Opioid Epidemic.
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