BY TIMOTHY LAROCHE
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NEWPORT — A Claremont man named in a 2016 drug investigation has received a one-year jail term from Sullivan County Superior Court.
Oriol Dor, 35, was sentenced tis month to one year in the Sullivan County House of Corrections followed by three years of probation for conspiracy to sell crack cocaine. Dor also received a two- to four-year New Hampshire State Prison sentence for possession of marijuana with intent to sell more than an ounce, suspended on good behavior for five years.
Dor was arrested in December 2016 after a lengthy investigation from the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Drug Task Force and the Claremont Police Department. He was named as one of the key players involved in distributing “significant amounts” of crack cocaine in Claremont and the surrounding towns.
In March 2017, Michael Ferullo, 36, of Claremont, was also sentenced as part of the investigation to serve five concurrent one-year terms in the House of Corrections for two subsequent counts of sale of suboxone, two subsequent counts of conspiracy to sell crack cocaine and one subsequent count of sale of crack cocaine. He was also given three years of probation following his release.
Ferullo was also sentenced to two to four years in state prison for a subsequent sale of crack cocaine charge, suspended on good behavior for five years.
Another person involved in the investigation was Sheena Jones, 34, of Claremont, who was sentenced in May 2017 to four concurrent one-year terms at the House of Corrections for two counts of conspiracy to sell crack cocaine and two counts of sale of crack cocaine. Following her release, she will serve three years of probation. Jones was also sentenced to two to four years in state prison for sale of crack cocaine, suspended on good behavior for five years.
Jones was also sentenced last week to one year at the House of Corrections for welfare fraud, suspended for two years. She was also placed on probation for two years and will be required perform 50 hours of community service and pay $8,579 restitution to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.
Jones was charged with obtaining Food Stamp benefits to which she was not entitled by misrepresenting her household income following lengthy health and human services investigation. She was found to have illegally received more than $8,000 in benefits.
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