Three drug charges, including one felony fully suspended or deferred

Cory Deshong (Rochester Police photo)

DOVER - A Rochester transient who pleaded guilty to several drug charges today was sentenced to 12 months in Strafford County Jail, but will spend no time given that the sentences were all either suspended or deferred.

Under the sentencing handed down by Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will, Cory M. Deshong, 32, saw six months of his sentence suspended for two years and the other six months deferred for a year. All the time will be suspended if he complies with terms of his sentence and remains on good behavior.

Most of the drug charges originated in Lee, but the fentanyl possession charge occurred in Rochester on Dec. 17, 2020, when an employee of the Circle K in Gonic called police to report there was a man who had been "banging around" inside the bathroom and left the convenience store with "a needle sticking out of his arm," according to a Rochester Police affidavit.

A Rochester Police officer caught up with Deshong at the corner of Gear and Gonic roads, where he allowed a consent search and was found to have a loaded needle full of heroin in his pants pocket.

Deshong, formerly of Wakefield, was reported as living in Rochester in woods near the Cocheco River in an August Rochester Police Arrest Log.