David B. Fein, United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, announced that Brandon Brown, 30, of Sheffield
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 three
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 June 2010 through August 2010, Brown purchased distribution
quantities of crack cocaine from other members of the drug trafficking
organization and then sold the crack to others for profit.
On February 8, 2012, Brown pleaded
guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute 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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