Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Legal professional for the District of Connecticut, introduced that EDUARDO COLON, 34, of Manchester, pleaded responsible at the moment earlier than U.S. District Choose Omar A. Williams in Hartford to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
In response to court docket paperwork and statements made in court docket, on June 3, 2022, the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Process Pressure made a managed buy of 1,000 wax sleeves of fentanyl from Colon in entrance of his Manchester residence on Buckland Hills Highway. Later that day, a court-authorized search of Colon’s residence revealed roughly 2,100 sleeves of fentanyl, roughly 250 grams of unpackaged fentanyl, and a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
Colon’s legal historical past consists of state felony convictions for narcotics offenses. It’s a violation of federal legislation for an individual beforehand convicted of a felony offense to own a firearm or ammunition that has moved in interstate or international commerce.
Colon pleaded responsible to 1 depend of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or extra of fentanyl, an offense that carries a compulsory minimal time period of imprisonment of 5 years and a most time period of imprisonment of 40 years, and one depend of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, an offense that carries a most time period of imprisonment of 10 years. A sentencing date just isn’t scheduled.
The FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Process Pressure consists of members of the Hartford Police Division, East Hartford Police Division, Manchester Police Division, New Britain Police Division, West Hartford Police Division, Connecticut State Police and Connecticut Division of Correction. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Legal professional A. Reed Durham.
This prosecution is a part of Challenge Secure Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of legislation enforcement and the communities they serve to cut back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. In Could 2021, the Justice Division launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN based mostly on these core rules: Fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist stop violence from occurring within the first place, setting centered and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.