A Bangor man is expected to appear Tuesday in Bangor’s federal court for arraignment on charges that he took part in a major international conspiracy to import marijuana.

Timothy Meucci, an employee at a local bowling alley, was charged in a secret indictment on multiple drug counts involving the August 1989 importation of about 5,000 pounds of marijuana from Colombia to Mount Desert Island by sailboat.

Meucci was named in an indictment along with six other people. The indictment was returned by a Bangor grand jury in October 1992, but was made public only last week.

If convicted as charged, Meucci and the other alleged conspirators face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine on each of four counts, including conspiracy to import marijuana, importation of marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and distribution of marijuana.

Other people named in the indictment with Meucci include Robert Quinn Jonas, already in federal custody and expected to appear in Bangor’s court on Thursday, April 15; Alan Clark of Oriental, N.C., recently arrested in North Carolina; Gary L. Krubsack of La Pointe, Wis., arrested in Orlando, Fla.; Frederick A. Pierce, with addresses listed in Augusta, Norridgewock, and Boca Raton, Fla.; and Wilhelmus Dirk Jacob Fleurbaaij, also known as “Dutch Willie,” of St. Martin, Netherland Antilles, who is a fugitive.

Two other indictments have been returned in connection with the same smuggling conspiracy. One defendant, Michael Mittenberg, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 19 years, seven months in prison. One other defendant has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing, while two other defendants are expected to enter guilty pleas, according to a court clerk.

The indictment alleges that Meucci and the other defendants conspired from 1988 to November 1989 to purchase large quantities of marijuana from Colombia. Fleurbaaij was hired as a sailboat captain and Alan Clark as a crewman to transport the marijuana by sailboat from a Colombian mothership, which the alleged conspirators met in the Caribbean Sea, to an unloading site in Maine, according to the court document.

One conspirator with navigational skills and a familiarity with the waters around Mount Desert Island allegedly was used to meet the sailboat and pilot it to Pretty Marsh, Maine. A cottage at Pretty Marsh was rented for use as a command post, “including communicating with the sailboat and housing some of the awaiting off-loaders and transporters,” stated the indictment.

Smaller boats were used to meet the sailboat and unload the marijuana, and arrangements were made for vehicles and drivers to transport the drug “for distribution elsewhere,” according to the document.

“Conspirators received substantial moneys from the distribution of the imported marijuana and would sometimes be compensated with marijuana as well as money,” stated the indictment.