PARIS — A Rumford woman pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court to two counts of unlawful trafficking in heroin and fentanyl.
Jessica Gardner, 33, was sentenced to eight years in prison on each count, with all but two years suspended. She was fined $400 on each count.
Assistant Attorney General David Fisher said the sentences would run concurrent with each other and concurrent with a two-year sentence for unlawful trafficking in oxycodone. Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford also sentenced Gardner to serve three years of probation.
If the case had gone to trial, Fisher said he would have called officers with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Rumford Police Department to testify.
Fisher told Clifford that on June 9, 2016, a person who was cooperating with the Rumford Police Department wore a wire and used marked cash to purchase two-tenths of a gram of heroin from Gardner.
Fisher said she later sold two-tenths of a gram of fentanyl to the same person.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
Jessica Gardner
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