A 28-year-old local woman was sentenced to four months in jail and two years of probation Monday, May 18 for trafficking heroin with her boyfriend.
Allina M. Diaz, 28, formerly of Wiscasset, pleaded guilty to class B unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs, class C unlawfully furnishing schedule W drugs, and class E violation of conditions of release during a hearing at the Lincoln County courthouse.
The state reduced the class B charge from class A aggravated trafficking in schedule W drugs and dismissed a charge of class C illegal importation of scheduled drugs in exchange for the guilty plea.
The class B charge removes language about the quantity of heroin in question.
Assistant Attorney General Jamie Guerrette was the prosecutor for the state. During the hearing, Guerrette outlined the evidence he would have relied on if the case had gone to trial.
Guerrette said he would have called several Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents to testify that Diaz conspired with her boyfriend, Nathan E. Brewer, 27, also of Wiscasset, to traffick heroin.
At one point, Brewer and Diaz wired $27,000 to their heroin source in California, Guerrette said. Diaz supplied $7,731 of the sum. Guerrette said he would have presented video evidence of Diaz wiring the money.
A search warrant was executed after Brewer accepted a package determined to contain approximately 10 grams of black tar heroin, Guerrette said.
Brewer pleaded guilty to class A aggravated trafficking in schedule W drugs and class C illegal importation of scheduled drugs March 27. He is serving a five-year sentence at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham.
Diaz’s trafficking conviction stems from the heroin case. The furnishing and violation of conditions of release charges stem from an arrest in Bremen just three weeks before the hearing.
In the latter case, Diaz gave another boyfriend Subutex from her prescription and admitted to using heroin in violation of her bail conditions. Subutex is a medication for the treatment of opiate dependence, although the drug is susceptible to abuse.
Justice Daniel Billings accepted the joint recommendation of Guerrette and defense attorney William Avantaggio to sentence Diaz to four years with all but four months suspended and two years of probation on the trafficking charge. She also has to pay $515 in fines.
Her probation conditions require substance abuse evaluation and counseling and subject her to random searches and tests for drugs. If she violates probation, she could return to custody for up to the remainder of the four-year sentence.
She will serve concurrent 30-day sentences for the furnishing and violation of condition of release charges and pay another $575 in fines for the furnishing charge.
Diaz was also arrested for class E violation of condition of release after admitting to illegal drug use Nov. 5, 2014. She pleaded guilty to that charge Nov. 7 and received a 48-hour sentence.
Diaz lived in Wiscasset at the time of the trafficking investigation. Recent court documents list addresses in Bremen and Waldoboro.
Diaz has made headlines across the state several times in recent months after accusing Moody’s Diner of discriminating against her for religious reasons while she was a waitress at the Waldoboro restaurant. She filed a federal lawsuit against Moody’s May 4.
Moody’s has denied Diaz’s claims.
(Dominik Lobkowicz contributed reporting to this article.)