BANGOR – A Lubec woman who admitted smuggling 159 oxycodone pills inside a condom that was partially hidden inside her vagina has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison.

Lisa Dawn Fitzgerald, aka Lisa Dawn Chute, 31, was one of three people sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge John Woodcock in unrelated cases.

Fitzgerald also was sentenced on Thursday to three years probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine. She faced up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.

Her attorney, Stephen Smith of Bangor, asked that she be sentenced to the eight months she has been held in jail since she pleaded guilty in September to illegally importing the drug. He asked that she serve the rest of her sentence on probation or under home arrest so she could care for her 6-year-old child.

Fitzgerald was arrested May 21 at the Calais border crossing. Border Patrol officers searched the woman, who has dual citizenship in the United States and Canada, after she did not offer any identification.

Fitzgerald told officers that she had been paid $200 to smuggle the painkiller, according to court documents. Smith told the court last week that she smuggled the drugs to feed her own addiction, but agreed to drug rehabilitation after her arrest.

In an unrelated case, an Ellsworth man was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for buying a gun for an ex-convict who was forbidden from owning a firearm.

Travis Sawyer, 25, faced up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for lying on a firearms application. He pleaded guilty to the crime in March.

Sawyer had admitted that about two years ago he bought a gun in Kittery for Lionel Cormier, 51, of Norwood, Mass. Cormier allegedly paid Sawyer $100 for the revolver.

Cormier, who served 16 years in Maine State Prison for robbing a drug dealer in Corinth and cutting off the man’s ear, and several associates have been convicted on federal charges for robbing a ring of robbers two years ago of cash, drugs and guns.

In an unrelated case, Chadd A. Roper, 25, of Kennebunk was sentenced Wednesday to two years and eight months in federal prison on gun and theft charges.

Roper was arrested in January 2003 in Lincoln, Neb., after he fled the state while awaiting sentencing of car theft charges. Before fleeing, he stole credit cards and convenience checks from his parents’ post office box and then forged them.