United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FEB 22 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Brandon Lancaster, 21, of Norridgewock, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to distributing oxycodone.

According to court records, on August 31, 2016, in a Pittsfield, Maine parking lot, Lancaster sold eleven 30 mg oxycodone pills for $500 to a person working with law enforcement.  Lancaster faces up to 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, and between three years and a life on supervised release.  He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and investigated and prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.