By Will Tuell

Two men on trial in a Machias courtroom for murdering 17-year-old Brandin Guerrero of Massapequa, New York, on Nov. 4, 2021, were found guilty of the murder on March 15 following nearly two weeks of testimony dominated by witnesses presented by the Maine Attorney General’s Office who implicated both the accused and the victim in a complex web of gang-related drug trafficking that has sent shockwaves throughout coastal Washington County since gunshots echoed throughout downtown Machias nearly two-and-a-half years ago.