Contact: David B. Joyce
Assistant U.S. Attorney
(207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Curtis
Simmons, of Florida and Belgrade, Maine, was sentenced in United States District Court by United
States District Judge George Z. Singal to 9 1/2 years in prison to be followed by 3 years of
supervised release for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Simmons was also ordered to forfeit
about $23,000 and a shotgun. Simmons pleaded guilty to the offense on March 15, 2012.

In August 2010, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (“MDEA”) and the Kennebec County
Sheriff’s Office (“KCSO”) executed a search warrant at Simmons’s residence in Belgrade. Law
enforcement personnel subsequently seized over 600 oxycodone pills, about $23,000 in cash, and a
loaded shotgun. Simmons was arrested on state charges following this seizure.

On October 14, 2010, law enforcement personnel learned that while in jail, Simmons and his
wife, Allison, were arranging for another shipment of oxycodone pills from Florida to Maine. After
receiving this information, agents with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”)
met Simmons’s wife as she got off of an airplane at the Portland International Jetport. Agents seized
520 oxycodone pills from her bags. Allison Simmons entered a guilty plea on April 24, 2012 to
conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. She is scheduled to be sentenced on August 24, 2012.

This case results from a joint investigation conducted by MDEA, DEA and the KCSO and
the ongoing effort of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a partnership
between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The principal mission of the OCDETF
program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking
and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug
supply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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