Contact: Joel B. Casey
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373
Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kelli Mujo, 31, of Harmony and Wellington, Maine and Central Falls, Rhode Island, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 14 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine and maintaining a drug involved premise. Mujo and her father, Roger Belanger, were convicted following a jury trial on August 19, 2016.
The evidence at trial revealed that between 2002 and 2014, the defendant and her father ran a cocaine and oxycodone distribution conspiracy that stretched from Rhode Island to the Dexter, Maine area. Conspirators obtained over 22 kilograms of cocaine and thousands of oxycodone pills in Rhode Island and transported to Maine where it was distributed in Dexter and the surrounding communities.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, with assistance provided by the Dexter Police Department, the Penobscot, Somerset and Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Offices.