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CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds
CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds The wife of an accused drug dealer and mother of a convicted drug dealer will spend the next two years in prison after she admitted to selling drugs for her husband after he was arrested, federal prosecutors in Connecticut announced on Wednesday, Feb. 1.  Maria Maldonado, age 50, of Hartford, pleaded guilty to drug charges last year, the US Attorney for Connecticut said. She is out on a $75,000 bond and must report to prison on March 1.  Trouble for Maldonado began in 2021 when the DEA raided her and her husband's home and found 13,000 wax folds of fentanyl, more than 300 loose gr…
CT Man Involved In Drug Ring Sentenced CT Man Involved In Drug Ring Sentenced
CT Man Involved In Drug Ring Sentenced A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 43 months in federal prison for his role in a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring. New London County resident Victor Encarnacion, age 34, of Norwich, was sentenced on Thursday, Jan. 27, said Leonard Boyle, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut,  According to the US Attorney's Office, Encarnacion was busted during an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration into the distribution of narcotics and illegal possession of firearms in southeastern Connecticut.  The investigation, which included court-authorized wir…
Man Who Posted Video Of Himself Blowing Stuff Up Gets 3 Years In Jail Man Who Posted Video Of Himself Blowing Stuff Up Gets 3 Years In Jail
Man Who Posted Video Of Himself Blowing Stuff Up Gets 3 Years In Jail A man who posted an online video of himself blowing stuff up has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. David Bourne, 38, of Simsbury, was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to 37 months in prison, followed by supervised release, for illegally possessing and using explosives, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Connecticut. Bourne was arrested in May 2019, about five months after he threw a pipe bomb, which he constructed, into the back of a victim’s truck, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Police started investigating Bourne after Connecticut State Police were called to a Hartland home in December …