PORTLAND — A Turner man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Maine.

U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adalberto Sepulveda-Ruiz was sentenced in U.S. District Court. Sepulveda-Ruiz pleaded guilty in April 2011 to charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine.

Court records show Sepulveda-Ruiz and two other Turner men — Noe Rodriguez and Reymundo Rodriguez — arranged to travel to North Carolina and back to Maine in October 2009 to pick up several kilograms of cocaine to sell.

Law enforcement officers stopped the three men in North Carolina as they returned to Maine. More than 7 kilograms of cocaine were found secreted inside one of the door panels of their vehicle.

Noe Rodriguez and Reymundo Rodriguez were sentenced in June in U.S. District Court to 49 months and 32 months, respectively.

Delahanty said the case involved the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Auburn Police Department.