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Man Sentenced For Stolen Goods Operation Targeting Home Depot, Target, CVS, Lowe’s Man Sentenced For Stolen Goods Operation Targeting Home Depot, Target, CVS, Lowe’s
Man Sentenced For Stolen Goods Operation Targeting Home Depot, Target, CVS, Lowe’s A store owner in the area is heading to prison after buying stolen property from boosters - typically those with opioid addictions - and reselling the items for more than $1.5 million. Paul William Muzyka of North Haven was sentenced to 54 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for his role in a large-scale fencing operation that he ran out of his secondhand store. He must also forfeit $73,143.91. Muzyka and his partner, George Connelly, Jr., operated Ace Amusements, a secondhand store, on Kimberly Avenue in New Haven. While running the store, the two knowingly purch…

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Two Charged With Selling $1.5M Of Items Stolen By Opioid Addicts In CT Two Charged With Selling $1.5M Of Items Stolen By Opioid Addicts In CT
Two Charged With Selling $1.5M Of Items Stolen By Opioid Addicts In CT Two men from Connecticut are facing time in prison after being found guilty of operating an elaborate fencing operation utilizing opioid addicts. Following nearly two weeks of deliberation, a jury this week found New Haven resident George Connelly, Jr., 48, and Branford reisdent William Reidell, 41, guilty of federal charges in relation to their roles in a large-scale fencing operation. According to evidence introduced at trial, Connelly and Paul Muzyka - who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit the interstate transport of stolen property and one count of interstate transport of stolen pr…

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