An Oxford County woman pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to multiple drug charges after selling methamphetamine to an undercover FBI agent.
Mandy Shorey, 43, of Peru is charged with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, conspiring to distribute and possess methamphetamine, and using a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
From July 2022 to January 2023, Shorey made two sales of methamphetamine from a Massachusetts supplier to an undercover FBI agent in Portland, according to court records. The drugs coming from Massachusetts were intended for sale in Androscoggin, Cumberland and Oxford counties, according to an affidavit from the FBI agent.
After several such controlled buys, the undercover officer arranged in November 2022 to buy two pounds of meth from Shorey. They met at 125 Sherwood St. in Portland, a short-term rental Shorey booked to do the deal, according to the agent.
On January 26, 2023, Shorey sold about one pound of meth to the officer at the same Portland location. That night, her supplier, Angel Luis Lozano of Lowell, Massachusetts, sold Shorey roughly 459 grams of meth which she then sold to the undercover officer.
Lozano, who was stopped by police that night and found to have the drug sale money, has also pleaded guilty to federal drug charges for his role in the conspiracy, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Shorey faces a sentence of 10 years to life in prison followed by supervised release for five years to life, and a fine of up to $10 million for the drug charges. She faces a minimum sentence of five years and a fine of up to $250,000 on a related firearms charge, based on her having brought a gun to one of the undercover drug deals.
