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Mass. man sentenced in major Sanford drug ring bust

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Yarlin Garcia (York County Jail photo)

PORTLAND, Maine - A Massachusetts man was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Monday in connection with his arrest in Sanford for trafficking in heroin/fentanyl and cocaine.

Yarlin Garcia, 26, of Lowell, will spend 87 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2018.

According to court records on June 20, 2017, Garcia was arrested outside of a residence in Sanford where he was found to be in possession of about 650 grams of a heroin/fentanyl mixture and 560 grams of cocaine that he had brought to Maine with two other associates.

Drug agents probing the drug ring were working on the case for two months, and the investigation revealed that the drugs were brought by a group of individuals coming into Maine from Lawrence and Lowell, according to a Maine DEA press release at the time of the arrest.

The group would sell coke and heroin by the pound to a Sanford man, which he would then resell, officials said.

During the afternoon of June 20, agents searched the Nason Street residence of Nathan Frechette where they seized drugs, a handgun, a sawed off shotgun and more than $35,000 dollars in suspected drug proceeds. Frechette was arrested without incident and transported to the York County Jail.

Then later that night the three from Massachustts - Garcia, Pedro Igyedi and Luis Rosario-Diaz - were arrested at they arrived at Frechette's home from Lowell. Found hidden in the engine compartment of the rental vehicle they were in was 1¼ pounds of cocaine and more than a pound and a half of heroin/fentanyl, police said.

The status of the three other individuals charged in the case was not immediately available from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Portland.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency; the Sagadahoc, York, and Cumberland County Sheriff's Offices; and the Biddeford Police Department and prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice's Strategy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.

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