Waterville man sentenced to 9 years for fentanyl trafficking
A Waterville man was sentenced in federal district court docket Friday to 110 months in jail adopted by six months of supervised launch for possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute.
Patrick Hanson, 32, pleaded responsible on November 3, 2022.
He was arrested in October 2021 after Waterville police discovered that Hanson had threatened one other individual. After his arrest, he was discovered to have seven packages of suspected narcotics in his possession, together with one bundle that he had kicked beneath a door whereas on the police station, in accordance with a information launch from the U.S. Division of Justice
Police seized roughly 43 grams of a combination containing fentanyl. Two milligrams of fentanyl is taken into account a deadly dose, in accordance with the DOJ.
Hanson was convicted of trafficking oxycodone and cocaine in 2013. Due to the prior conviction, U.S. District Courtroom Justice Decide John A. Woodcock, Jr. discovered Hanson to be a profession offender beneath the federal sentencing pointers, which subjected him to a better really useful sentence.
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