Bangor, Maine: United
States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Michael E. Algiere, 33, of
Oakland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E.
Walker to 85 months in prison and three years of supervised release for
interfering with commerce by robbery.
Algiere pleaded guilty on April 24, 2019.
Court records reveal that on October 31, 2007, the defendant
entered the Oakland Pharmacy in Oakland wearing a black ski mask, a hooded
sweatshirt, and camouflage gloves. He
went to the pharmacy counter holding a knife and demanded oxycodone from the
pharmacist. The defendant absconded with
several bottles of Roxicodone, Oxycontin, and Percocet.
The Maine State Police Crime Laboratory (MSPCL) found DNA on
a ski mask and knife recovered by police at and near the robbery scene, loaded
the DNA profile into the Combined DNA Index System (“CODIS”), but could not
match it to a known offender profile in 2007.
CODIS is a criminal justice database that contains DNA profiles of
convicted offenders and arrestees.
Because participating forensic laboratories regularly add DNA profiles
to CODIS, the MSPCL routinely compares unknown profiles from unsolved cases
against the known profiles in CODIS. In
February 2017, a CODIS comparison revealed that the DNA obtained from the ski
mask and knife matched DNA collected from the defendant. The DNA match was confirmed after federal
investigators collected a sample of the defendant’s DNA.
The case was investigated by the Oakland Police Department,
the FBI, and the MSPCL.
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