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Canadian Man Gets Year Sentence for Entering Maine Illegally with Drugs

Canadian Man Gets Year Sentence for Entering Maine Illegally with Drugs

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A 31-year-old Canadian national will spend just over a year in prison for bringing illegal drugs over the border to Maine.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Van Buren station stopped Nathan Paul Curran-McQuade for illegally entering the U.S. from Canada in the town of Caswell. Curran-McQuade was stopped while operating an ATV on an ATV trail that borders Canada and was marked with international boundary signs.

Court records show that when stopped by the agents, Curran-McQuade had approximately 14 grams of methamphetamine on his person as well as marijuana in a mason jar in his backpack. He claimed to be traveling to a store in Caswell to get gas and that the drugs were for personal use.

He was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in January.

Curran-McQuade will serve 12 months and a day of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for importing a controlled substance. Curran-McQuade received a concurrent sentence of 100 days for entering the U.S. unlawfully.

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