City man facing December trial over trafficking charges that date back to 2020

Former East Rochester man finally headed to trial in Decemter on slew of drug trafficking charges from 2020

ROCHESTER - A 38-year-old Rochester man, formerly of Grove Street in East Rochester, is finally facing a jury trial on 11 drug trafficking charges stemming from a single 2020 arrest by city police.
Cory Ayers, was formerly charged by a Strafford County grand jury in Nov. 2022.
Ayers is accused of trafficking ethlheptedrone, flualprazolam, fluromethamphetamine, 5-methoxy, Alpha-Pyrrolidinohexanophenone, Dimethyltryptamine, 3-methylemetrcathinone, Psilocybin and methoxyphencyclidine.
All of the drugs listed are either natural or synthetic hallucinagens, synthetic psychadelics, synthetic stimulants or what are known as designer drugs, which are also synthetic and designed to produce a euphoric state.
Ayers was arrested in Rochester on Nov. 27, 2020.
Each charge carries a 10-20 year sentence in New Hampshire State Prison, which could amount to a life sentence. He could also face more than $300,000 in fines.
An agreement to seek a plea agreement between defense and prosecutors was agreed to, but after two more indictments in 2022, any plea deal fell through.
A pretrial hearing was scheduled in January of 2023, but Ayers failed to appear, according to court documents.
That was followed by motion to determine competency in June.
Then in March Ayers requested to cancel the competency hearing.
After a final pretrial hearing today Ayer's trial is set to start on Dec. 2.