A Detroit man who pleaded guilty in November to felony drug charges was sentenced 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release in U.S. District Court in Bangor on Tuesday.

Raymond K. Ferris, 60, of Troy Road in Detroit, was sentenced on a charge of possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of oxycodone stemming from a police sweep in Somerset and county in April 2015. The charges against Ferris were elevated because of a prior federal drug conviction as well as the quantity of drugs seized, law enforcement officials said at the time.

Ferris conspired with others in Somerset County between April 2013 and April 2015 to distribute and possess oxycodone supplied by an out-of-state source, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty. He was arrested April 16, 2015, when Somerset County deputies and agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency searched his Detroit home and seized 100 oxycodone 30 mg tablets, heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to the release.

Ferris sold oxycodone throughout Somerset County from his home and from locations elsewhere in the county, according to the court record.

A drug agent who interviewed Ferris after the search warrant would also testify that Ferris admitted to selling “thousands of oxycodone 30-mg tablets (over) the course of two years,” according to the documents. The government also would have offered testimony of a cooperating defendant who had purchased oxycodone from Ferris during the course of the conspiracy.

An undercover DEA agent also twice bought oxycodone from Ferris during the investigation, the release said.

Ferris previously was sentenced to serve four years in federal prison and four years of supervised release in 2006 for possession with intent to distribute more than $100,000 worth of cocaine. Ferris was arrested at his Detroit home in May 2005 on charges of aggravated drug trafficking after police seized cocaine valued at $111,000. Police in that raid also found $4,800 in cash, three rifles, a handgun, drug scales and records.

Ferris was federally prosecuted in 2006 for possession with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of cocaine. He was sentenced in federal district to 51 months in prison.

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