Casey S. Kleykamp, 28, of Boothbay Harbor accepted a guilty plea for Aggravated Trafficking in Scheduled Drugs (heroin), a Class A felony, and Importation of Scheduled Drugs (heroin), a Class C felony, in Lincoln County Superior Court on Monday, March 14. He also pled guilty to the assault of a fellow inmate at Two Bridges Regional Jail.

Kleykamp was facing some serious jail time — 35 years for all charges, including several charges of violation of conditions of release. However, his plea meant that he would accept five years and a day in prison, with the sentences on the lesser convictions served concurrently.

Kleykamp asked for the additional day with the hope that he would be placed at Warren, closer to where friends could visit, rather than Windham. The state made it clear that there was no promise made to that effect, but with a sentence over five years, it would be more likely for Kleykamp to be housed at Warren.

According to the assistant district attorney, based on testimony from cooperating defendants, confidential witnesses, and FBI and drug enforcement special agents as well as local law enforcement, Kleykamp was a major source of heroin in the midcoast from 2013 to 2014. He was living in California at the time, and accepted $27,168 in funds wired through Western Union and other cash transit services; for that sum, he sent 27 packages of heroin to the midcoast, sent to different addresses, from multiple aliases, according to the prosecutor.

Most of the drug was sent through FedEx, but on one occasion, it was sent through the post office, the prosecutor said. When the informants told the postal inspector that the drugs were coming through the post office, the postal inspector, the FBI and MDEA, as well as local law enforcement, set up a sting operation on July 31, 2014.

A drug dog hit on the package, which gave law enforcement probable cause for a warrant, and they discovered that the package contained 10 gross weight grams of heroin, the prosecutor said. A chemist later determined the net weight of the drug to be 8.9 grams.  Video surveillance caught Kleykamp on tape putting the drugs in a sunglasses case at the post office in California, wrapping it and sending it to Maine, according to the prosecutor.

Kleykamp was arrested on August 3 and extradited to Maine, and while he was awaiting trial on the drug charge, he was accused of the assault of fellow inmate Stacy Parker. Parker, 37, of Little Elm, Texas, was arrested July 1, 2014, in Texas on a Lincoln County warrant for Class B unlawful sexual contact with a child on Westport Island. Parker later pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault of a minor and was sentenced in November, 2014. Kleykamp said that he had assaulted him because he had lied to him about his charges while they were riding the extradition bus together.

Kleykamp attempted to get a brief stay so he could settle some financial affairs and help his mother, who is in poor health in California, but the state objected, and Kleykamp was returned to Two Bridges Regional Jail after his sentencing.