Sanford Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Oxycodone

Contact: Julia M. Lipez
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James Levesque, 54, of Sanford, Maine pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to distribution of oxycodone.

Court records reveal that on March 7, 2014, in Sanford, Levesque sold forty 80-milligram oxycodone pills, through a middleman, to an individual working with law enforcement.

Levesque faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.  He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the York County Sheriff’s Office.