Date: 04-23-2024

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United States of America v. Tyler Vangel

Case Number: 23-cr-83

Judge: Jon D. Levy

Court: The United States District Court for the District of Maine (Cumberland County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office for Portland

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Portland, ME criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a Drug Supplier.

Child Exploitation Investigation Leads to 50-Month Sentence for Defendant’s Drug Supplier

A Portland man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for conspiring to distribute cocaine.

Tyler Vangel (aka Tyler Linscott, Tyler Carter, Andrew Flanagan), 30, was sentenced to 50 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on October 31, 2023.

Sebastian Demers in early 2022 for suspected child exploitation, law enforcement learned that Demers was also selling drugs and that Vangel was Demers’ supplier. Investigators opened a separate inquiry into Vangel and learned that between January 2021 and June 2022, Vangel regularly obtained and transported large quantities of cocaine from a Lawrence, Massachusetts-based supplier to be distributed by himself and others, including Demers, to customers in Maine. Among the evidence seized during the investigation was Vangel’s phone, which revealed orders from lower-level distributors requesting a “basket” (3.5 grams) and “half key” (half kilogram) as well as Vangel responding about having a “brick” (kilogram).

Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case.

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Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 50 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release

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