Kailey Prejean
PORTLAND — A Biddeford woman who admitted she sold methamphetamines to an undercover agent on three occasions in 2019 was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby to two years in federal prison on Wednesday Feb. 3.
Kailey Prejean will also serve three years of supervised release. She pleaded guilty on Oct. 14 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and two counts of distribution.
According to records on file at the U.S District Court in Portland, on July 12, 2019, Prejean sold $250 worth of methamphetamine to an undercover officer in the parking lot of the former St. Mary’s Church in Biddeford. Five days later on July 17, 2019, she sold one half-ounce of methamphetamine to the same undercover officer in the same parking lot. On July 24, 2019, the undercover officer arranged to buy an ounce of methamphetamine from Prejean at the same location.
On that day, police said, Prejean was accompanied by Antonio Morrissey, 32, also of Biddeford. In a news release issued soon after the incident, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said officers with the York and Cumberland MDEA task forces conducted surveillance, while the undercover officer met with Prejean. She negotiated the sale of methamphetamine with the undercover agent while Morrissey held the drugs, the MDEA release stated.
Prejean approached the undercover officer’s car. The undercover officer asked her who the man with her was, and Prejean told him he was her bodyguard, according to court records. The two were taken into custody without incident. Police said Morrissey was carrying 30 grams of methamphetamine, and was armed with a loaded 9mm Glock handgun, which had been stolen in April of that year.
Antonio Morrissey
Agents subsequently served a search warrant at Prejean’s apartment. Seized during the search was an additional 46 grams of methamphetamine and 57 grams of a black substance that drug agents at the time said they believed was black tar heroin. In all, MDEA estimated the street value of the drugs at $10,000.
Morrissey pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, and is awaiting sentencing in federal court.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency; Biddeford Police Department; the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the FBI investigated the case.
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