Bronx Man Sentenced on Federal Drug Conspiracy Charge

Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Anthony Gomez, a/k/a “Tone”, 35, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced at the U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to a term of imprisonment of three years and five months and a 3 year term of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute oxycodone.

According to court records, between January 2012 and March 2012, Gomez conspired with Maurice McCray and others in Waterville, Maine and surrounding communities to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. Gomez was one of McCray’s New York sources of supply for oxycodone.  Gomez is the twenty-third person to be convicted and sentenced in the federal investigation into drug distribution in the Waterville, Maine area. He was arrested following an 18 month long fugitive investigation by the U.S. Marshal’s Service.
     
The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with assistance from the Waterville, Maine Police Department.