Keene woman gets 18 months for fentanyl | The Brattleboro Reformer

By Reformer Staff

CONCORD, N.H. — A Keene woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire, the arrest of Meghan Bowers, 31, happened on March 7, 2018, after investigators received information via wiretaps of a drug deal in Massachusetts. Investigators conducted surveillance of the deal and observed a hand-to-hand exchange between a known drug trafficker and the driver of the car at the driver’s side window.

The vehicle left Massachusetts and agents followed it directly to New Hampshire, where a State Trooper stopped it. During the traffic stop, the trooper located an orange bag inside the car containing approximately 184 grams of fentanyl. Bowers and another occupant of the vehicle admitted that they had been asked to drive another person to Massachusetts to buy drugs and that they had agreed to do so.

Bowers pleaded guilty on Aug. 29, 2018.

“Fentanyl is a deadly drug that has caused grave damage to communities throughout New Hampshire,” stated U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray in a press release announcing the sentencing. “We will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate those who attempt to bring fentanyl into the Granite State.”

The case was a collaborative investigation involving the DEA, the New Hampshire State Police, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the Nashua Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the Essex County District Attorney’s Office, the Internal Revenue Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, United States Customs and Border Protection Boston Field Office, the United States Marshals Service, the United States Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, the Maine State Police and police departments in Manchester, Lisbon, Littleton and Seabrook and Haverhill, Methuen and Lowell in Massachusetts.

This case was supported by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.