An Auburn man faces up to 40 years in prison and a $5 million fine after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II said in a news release that David Goyette, 27, was dealing cocaine and crack cocaine in the Lewiston/Auburn area for about two years.
Goyette would get cocaine “in kilogram quantities” from a Boston dealer, cook some of it into crack cocaine and sell both kinds of drugs, according to the release.
He was arrested in June as part of a joint federal-state-local law enforcement investigation, officials said. Goyette was arrested after law enforcement agents watched him meet with his dealer and then stopped both Goyette and his dealer in their cars, seizing about $25,000 from the supplier’s car.
A day later, agents seized about 500 grams of cocaine, a scale and jewelry during a search of Goyette’s and his mother’s houses.
Goyette pleaded guilty Friday.
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