David B. Fein, United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kristin Longobardi, 31, of East
Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree
Burns in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one
year of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
This matter stems from a joint law
enforcement investigation conducted by the FBI New Haven Safe Streets Task
Force, the DEA New Haven Task Force, the New Haven Police Department, and the
Hamden Police Department. Through the use of court-authorized wiretaps,
investigating officers identified and dismantled a large drug trafficking
organization that was centered in the Newhallville section of New Haven and
Hamden and was responsible for the distribution of crack cocaine and cocaine
throughout the Greater New Haven area.
According to court documents and
statements made in court, from June through August 2010, Longobardi was
intercepted over a wiretap ordering crack cocaine from a co-defendant. She then
distributed a portion of the crack she purchased to others.
On May 2, 2011, Longobardi pleaded
guilty to one count of using a telephone to facilitate a narcotics trafficking
felony
Forty-seven individuals have been
charged in federal court with various narcotics offenses as a result of this
investigation.
This matter was investigated by the FBI
New Haven Safe Streets Task Force (composed of members of members of the New
Haven, Milford, and Hamden Police Departments and the Connecticut Department of
Correction), the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Haven Task Force
(composed of members of the New Haven, West Haven, Meriden, Ansonia, Hamden,
and Branford Police Departments), along with substantial participation by
members of the New Haven and Hamden Police Departments. The United States
Marshals Service also has assisted the investigation.
The investigation was funded in
significant part by the United States Attorney’s Office Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement Task Force and supported by the Office’s Project Safe Neighborhoods
and Anti-Gang programs.
This matter is being prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorneys Christopher M. Mattei and Robert M. Spector.
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