PARIS — An Albany Township resident has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for his involvement in manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in Oxford County.
Rodney Levesque, 36, was sentenced in Oxford County Superior Court on Tuesday to two concurrent three-and-a-half-year terms for aggravated drug trafficking charges, and a 364-day concurrent sentence for assaulting an informant.
State prosecutors recommended an eight-year prison sentence, with all but four years suspended, to run concurrent with a five-year prison sentence, with all but four years suspended, for the first two counts, though Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford reduced it in light of Levesque’s guilty plea to the charges in November.
In exchange for the plea deal, additional drug-related counts were dropped.
Levesque was arrested last February in a countywide roundup, along with seven others, following a three-month investigation. Levesque was said to have learned how to cook meth, a highly addictive stimulant, from the operation’s ringleader, David Thompson of Gilead, according to a police affidavit.
Assistant Attorney General David Fisher said previously that had the case gone to trial, witnesses would have testified that on Dec. 20 and 23, 2013, an informant for the state made a controlled purchase of meth from Levesque in Greenwood.
Levesque and seven others were arrested by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency on Feb. 7, as agents dismantled five meth labs and made arrests across Oxford County.
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