BANGOR -- Two cases were acted on in U.S. District Court here yesterday. They are:

    • Ben Dionne, 29, of St. David pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana." He faces up to 10 years in prison for the crime, which occurred between 2003 to 2006. Court records say that during those years, Dionne was working for another man, identified as Michael Pelletier, bringing in mass quantities of pot from Canada and distributing it in the states.

Dionne was arrested in September 2006, but fled to Canada where he was finally caught and sent back to the states to face a failure to appear charge, to which he also pleaded guilty in court yesterday.

    • Nicole Martin, 26, of Bangor was sentenced to 110 months in prison for possessing - with intent to distribute - heroin, cocaine and Oxycontin. She pleaded guilty to the charge on July 5, 2007. She also admitted at that time to violating the conditions of supervised release for a previous federal conviction.

Court records reveal that in March of 2007, Martin was driving from Portland to Bangor with a load of drugs when she was stopped by Bangor police. Martin admitted to having the drugs in the car - 21 bags of heroin, 4.4 grams of cocaine and 25 1/2 40mg Oxycontin pills. She admitted she'd been selling the drugs for a month at these prices: $80 for a gram of cocaine, $15 for a bag of heroin and $40 per Oxycontin pill.

Her sentence was exaggerated because of previous state and federal narcotics convictions. She was sentenced as a "career offender."

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