Connecticut Man Sentenced to 6 Years for Fentanyl Trafficking

Bangor, Maine:  Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Raheem Childers, 32, of New London, Connecticut, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to six years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl.  Childers pleaded guilty on August 16, 2016. 

According to court records on May 26, 2017, federal agents executed a search warrant at a hotel room in Orono, Maine where they found Childers, $2,500, and 168 grams of fentanyl.  Childers admitted that he had been in the area selling the drug.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance provided by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department.  This case was investigated and prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.