BANGOR — A Rumford man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine from his Bangor apartment where his 3-year-old son lived, according to a news release from the U.S. District Court in Bangor.

Wendell White, 52, was sentenced by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. on a charge of conspiring to distribute the drug, which is a purified form of cocaine that is highly addictive.

Court records state that White was part of a conspiracy that from January 2010 to August 2013 brought crack cocaine from New Haven, Connecticut, to Penobscot County. He was known to sell half-gram and gram quantities throughout the Bangor area, and his Sanford Street apartment was used as a location to sell and use crack. His 3-year-old son was living in the apartment at the time, according to the release. 

White’s conspiracy was connected with a New Haven gang called the Red Side Guerilla Brims, a group affiliated with the Almighty Blood Nation. 

Almighty Blood Nation is a prison gang formed in 1978 within the California prison system in San Quentin State Prison.

White was one of 10 people indicted in 2015 as part of an investigation into a drug conspiracy operating out of New Haven and Bangor, the release said. 

White’s case was investigated by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the New Haven, Connecticut, Office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the New Haven Police Department. 

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