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Hartford resident Franklyn Nieves, 63, has been sentenced to 28 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release for willfully allowing the building to be used to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Nieves managed a six-unit apartment building at 8-10 Hamilton St. in Hartford, where a drug organization stored, processed and distributed the drugs. Nieves, who lived in one of the units, was aware of the drug trafficking activity at the building, helped to secure the basement of the building for the trafficking organization’s drug activities, and knew that a teenager was working for the organization and serving drug customers at the building.
Nieves was arrested on Dec. 7 last year. He pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining drug-involved premises on May 14. Nieves remains released on a $50,000 bond and was ordered to report to prison on Jan. 16 next year.
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