David B. Fein, United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, announced that Roger Sullivan, also known as
“Manny O,” 35, of 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 October 2010, Sullivan was
intercepted several times over a wiretap ordering distribution quantities of
crack cocaine from other members of the drug trafficking organization. He then
sold the crack to his own customers for profit. Also, on October 14, 2010,
Sullivan sold crack cocaine to an undercover law enforcement officer.
Sullivan was arrested in November 18,
2010. On that date, law enforcement officers seized crack cocaine, which was
packaged for sale, and a loaded semi-automatic pistol from a bedroom closet at
the location of Sullivan’s arrest.
On June 30, 2011, Sullivan pleaded
guilty to one count of distribution of cocaine base (“crack cocaine”). As part
of his plea, he also acknowledged that he was responsible for the crack cocaine
and the firearm seized at the time of his arrest.
Forty-seven individuals have been
charged in federal court with various narcotics offenses as a result of this
investigation.
U.S. Attorney Fein noted that federal
prisoners are required to serve at least 85 percent of their sentenced terms of
imprisonment and are not eligible for parole.
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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