A Massachusetts man faces 20 years in prison for helping traffic drugs in Penobscot and Aroostook counties.
Daviston Jackson, 28, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Stacey Neumann at U.S. District Court in Bangor.
Jackson is the 21st person to be sentenced for a role in a drug trafficking ring, and his sentence was among the longest. In all, 22 were charged. The group allegedly distributed methamphetamine and fentanyl from Massachusetts to northern Maine from 2018 to 2021.
After a two-week trial, Jackson and Daquan Corbett were found guilty of conspiring to distribute the drugs and for possessing with intent to distribute. Corbett, 30, also of Brockton, has not yet been sentenced.
The two men allegedly organized the trafficking group’s operations, using a dealer network, according to court records. Jackson allegedly delivered or coordinated the delivery of large amounts of the drugs from an out-of-state supplier and distributed them to dealers in Penobscot and Aroostook counties.
Jackson and others in the group allegedly took money from the sales back to Massachusetts, according to court records.
Investigators from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency led the case, with assistance from Maine State Police and local police from Orono, Bangor, Brewer, Caribou, Presque Isle and Houlton.
