David B. Fein, United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, announced that Eleazar Thompson, 30, of
Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District
Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by
four years 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 September 2010 through October 2010, Thompson
purchased distribution quantities of crack cocaine from other members of the
drug trafficking organization and then sold the crack to others for profit.
Thompson was on state parole at the time
of the offense.
On August 31, 2011, Thompson pleaded
guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine
base (“crack cocaine”).
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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