Massachusetts Man Sentenced to Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

Portland, Maine:  A Peabody, Massachusetts man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

U.S. District Court Judge George Z. Singal sentenced Sean Anderson, 39, to 71 months in prison and four years of supervised release.

According to court records, on May 7, 2019, a Maine State Police trooper stopped Anderson for speeding northbound on I-95 in York. The trooper recovered a package containing about nine grams of fentanyl from the ground just outside Anderson’s car, where he had thrown it after pulling over. While Anderson was being booked into the York County Jail, jail personnel found two additional packages containing about 52 grams of fentanyl in his underwear.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; the Maine State Police; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the York County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case as part of the Department of Justice’s Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge, a program designed to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids.