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Waterbury Drug Dealer Gets Prison For Trafficking Large Amounts Of Heroin, Cocaine Waterbury Drug Dealer Gets Prison For Trafficking Large Amounts Of Heroin, Cocaine
Waterbury Drug Dealer Gets Prison For Trafficking Large Amounts Of Heroin, Cocaine A Connecticut drug dealer has been sentenced to prison for supplying heroin to a member of a Waterbury-area drug trafficking ring. Former New Haven County resident Jesus Nieves, aka "Pop," age 38, formerly of Waterbury, and Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 23 to 63 months in prison, said Vanessa Roberts Avery, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, in May 2020, the DEA New Haven Task Force and Waterbury Police Department began an investigation into a drug trafficking organization that was distributing l…

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by Kathy Reakes
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CT Man Sentenced For Trafficking Fentanyl, Heroin CT Man Sentenced For Trafficking Fentanyl, Heroin
CT Man Sentenced For Trafficking Fentanyl, Heroin A Connecticut man will spend years in federal prison after being sentenced for his role in a drug-trafficking operation, authorities announced. New Haven resident Quentine Davis, age 31, was sentenced by US District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to 63 months behind bars, followed by three years of supervised release after admitting to trafficking fentanyl and heroin throughout the region. US Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery said that the DEA New Haven Task Force launched an investigation late in 2019 into the distribution of heroin and fentanyl in New Haven and Waterbury. The investigation - wh…

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by Zak Failla
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CT Man Sentenced For Distributing Heroin CT Man Sentenced For Distributing Heroin
CT Man Sentenced For Distributing Heroin A Connecticut man will spend more than two years in prison after being sentenced for distributing heroin, federal officials announced. New Haven County resident Adam Mines, age 38, of Naugatuck, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty in December 2021 to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin. US Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery said that according to court documents and statements made in court, in May 2020, the DEA New Haven Task Force and Waterbury Police Department began an investigation into a drug trafficking o…

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by Zak Failla
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CT Man Sentenced For Role In Heroin, Fentanyl Trafficking Ring CT Man Sentenced For Role In Heroin, Fentanyl Trafficking Ring
CT Man Sentenced For Role In Heroin, Fentanyl Trafficking Ring A Connecticut man has been sentenced for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring. Bryan Vinales, age 25, of Waterbury, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 3, to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to Leonard Boyle, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl on July 23, Boyle said.  An investigation by the DEA New Haven Task Force and the Waterbury Police Department found that the Waterbury-based drug t…

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by Nicole Valinote