A Corinna man and Harmony woman who are father and daughter are the latest to be convicted in a two-county drug trafficking sting that netted 10 arrests last year.

Roger Belanger, 59, of Corinna, and Kelli Mujo, 31, of Harmony and Wellington, and Central Falls, Rhode Island, were convicted of conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and maintaining a drug-involved premise in U.S. District Court in Bangor, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II. The eight others pleaded guilty to similar charges earlier this year.

From 2002 and 2014 the pair ran a cocaine and oxycodone distribution conspiracy that stretched from Rhode Island to the Dexter area, according to the release. It said Mujo and others brought more than 22 kilograms of cocaine and thousands of oxycodone pills from Rhode Island to Maine, where they distributed it in Dexter and surrounding communities in both Penobscot and Somerset counties.

The two were among 10 people from Somerset and Penobscot counties arrested on sealed indictments in April 2015 in what was the breakup of “a major drug conspiracy,” Dexter Police Chief Kevin Wintle said at the time.

Four of those arrested pleaded guilty in July on similar charges. Mark Tasker, 49, of Dexter; Greg Tasker, 28, of Stetson; and Eugene Moulton, 57, and Antoinette Perreault, 48, both of Harmony, pleaded guilty on charges of conspiring to distribute oxycodone and cocaine, as well as possession of the two drugs with the intent to distribute.

On Jan. 25, four others also pleaded guilty in the case: John Williams, 43, of Stetson; Cynthia Williams, 42, of Stetson; Whitney Chadbourne, 22, of Harmony; and Corey Pomerleau, 24, of Harmony.

They face between 10 years and life in prison, a $10,000,000 fine, and between five years and life on supervised release on the conspiracy charge and up to 20 years, a $500,000 fine, three years of supervised release on the premises charge, Delahanty said.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, with assistance provided by the Dexter Police Department, and the Penobscot, Somerset and Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Offices.


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