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Date: 12-22-2020
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Case Number: 2:18-cr-00143-JDL
Judge: Jon D. Levy
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Penobscot County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Portland, Maine
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Description: Portland, Maine drug possession criminal defense lawyer represented Edward Canty III, a/k/a "Demo," who was charged with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin.
According to trial evidence, between September 2016 and December 2016, Canty and others conspired to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin transported from outside Maine for distribution in Portland.
At the time of his participation in the conspiracy in Maine, Canty was on federal supervised release for a federal drug trafficking conspiracy charge out of New York. He and another conspirator, Akeem Cruz, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, assaulted another individual during the drug conspiracy. In commenting on Canty’s engagement in violence, Chief Judge Levy noted the assault and then added, “Selling heroin to heroin addicts requires a certain level of callousness.”
Another conspirator who was also found guilty at trial, Melquan Jordan, 31, also of Brooklyn, New York, has yet to be sentenced.
The Portland and South Portland Police Departments; the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency; Homeland Security Investigations; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the FBI investigated the case.
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE AND HEROIN AND AIDING AND ABETTING 21:846 AND 841(a)1) AND 18:2
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 66 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
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