Ex-Calais hoops star pleads guilty

BANGOR – A former Calais High School basketball star has pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge in a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Morgan Drew, 19, of Calais was arrested April 8 in a restaurant parking lot in Bangor in an undercover drug operation, according to court documents.

She had with her $2,740 that was to be used to buy 1,000 OxyContin pills, according to court documents.

Drew was formally charged in U.S. District Court on Monday with possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. During the same hearing, she also pleaded guilty and waived indictment.

She has been in jail since April 9 on a probation violation charge related to state charges. She and Sarah Snider, 19, of Milbridge were arrested in March 2002 on charges of burglarizing a Princeton home and stealing more than $600 in valuables.

Both were sentenced in January 2003 in Washington County Superior Court to 18 months in prison with all but 30 days suspended and three years’ probation, after pleading guilty to the charges. By then a student at Husson College in Bangor, Drew admitted at her sentencing that she was addicted to OxyContin and was seeing a drug counselor.

One of the conditions of her probation on the burglary charge was that Drew not associate with known drug users or engage in new criminal behavior. Her conduct on April 8 violated those conditions, according to court documents.

Drew and two others went to the Miller’s Restaurant parking lot that day with Allan Geiser, 33, of Brewer to buy the oxycodone pills from William Hiller of Providence, R.I. According to court documents, he agreed to set up a drug buy in Maine in hopes of receiving a lesser sentence on his own pending drug charges.

Geiser, Drew and the others were arrested when they approached Hiller in the parking lot in the early evening. Robert O. Brewer II, 46, of Bangor was arrested later the same day at his business, The Diamond Connection, in the Airport Mall. All three men have pleaded not guilty in federal court to drug charges.

The plea agreement does not include a recommended sentence but states that Drew will cooperate with prosecutors and that her cooperation will be taken into account when prosecutors make a sentencing recommendation.

The maximum sentence on the charge is 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $1 million and three years of supervised release.

No date has been set for sentencing.