LEWISTON – A Boston man accused of dealing crack cocaine in Lewiston and invading the home of a Sabattus couple a year ago was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison.

Mitchell “Mix” McGuire, 28, was convicted at a jury trial in July of conspiring to distribute crack. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland under federal guidelines which mandate that he receive no less than 30 years in prison.

According to testimony at trial, McGuire moved to Lewiston in 2001 and shared an apartment on Oxford Street with 26-year-old Susan Gray.

Between June and December of 2002, McGuire and Gray traveled to Boston once a week to purchase crack, prosecutors said. The dope was brought back to Lewiston where it was sold.

Police said on Dec. 30, McGuire stormed into a Spruce Street home in Sabattus searching for a man who he claimed stole cocaine from him.

The man he was looking for was not home, police said. So McGuire, ordered the man’s parents to show him around the house. He also ordered the couple to lie on the floor and bound them with duct tape, police said.

Nobody was hurt during the invasion, and no shots were fired.

“During this entire incident, the homeowners’ 10-year-old daughter was lying in her bed fearful to leave her room while listening to her parents’ ordeal,” Sabattus police Sgt. Rick Bates wrote in an affidavit.

After McGuire left the home and the break-in was reported to police, several local and federal agencies became involved in the investigation.

The man McGuire had gone to the Spruce Street home to collect money from later learned that his parents had been bound with tape, police said. That man called McGuire and demanded an explanation.

McGuire said “that he was not going to be stiffed again and that he had better return his money or (McGuire) would go back to his parents’ house and take care of this himself,” Bates wrote in the court document.

The son of the victims told police that McGuire was the man they were looking for in the home invasion.

Police went to McGuire’s Oxford Street apartment shortly after and searched the residence with a warrant. Investigators said they found a revolver, two ski masks, two rolls of duct tape and rubber gloves at the apartment. They also found more than a dozen crack rocks inside a condom, police said.

McGuire was charged with drug dealing and with violating bail conditions stemming from a November 2002 arrest on drug trafficking charges.

Gray was also arrested during the investigation. She was charged with conspiracy to traffic crack cocaine. In September, she was sentenced in U.S. District Court to server 30 months in federal prison.

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