Dominican national who was part of CT drug trafficking ring gets almost 3 years in federal prison

A 29-year-old man from the Dominican Republic was sentenced to virtually three years in federal jail on Wednesday for his position in a Waterbury-based drug trafficking ring, federal officers stated.

Jeffrey Amarante-Perez was sentenced by U.S. District Decide Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to a complete of 30 months in jail, adopted by three years of supervised launch, for trafficking fentanyl and heroin, based on the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace. He pleaded responsible to conspiracy to own with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl on Nov. 15, 2022.

In line with a joint investigation between the DEA New Haven Activity Power and  Waterbury Police Division, a Waterbury-based drug trafficking operation headed by Nestor Sosa-Ortiz acquired massive portions of fentanyl and heroin from suppliers in Connecticut and New York and distributed the medicine by way of a community of sellers that included Sanchez-Martinez.

Sosa-Ortiz was arrested in New York Metropolis on a separate federal cost for heroin and fentanyl trafficking in Might 2019 however continued to run the drug operation from jail utilizing smuggled cell telephones, court docket information stated.

The operation used an house on Bishop Avenue in Waterbury to retailer massive quantities of fentanyl and heroin and to organize the medicine on the market, based on court docket information. Investigators executed search warrants on the Bishop Avenue house and 4 different areas on Oct. 29, 2019, and seized roughly six kilograms of fentanyl and heroin,100,000 luggage of fentanyl/heroin,1,000 fentanyl drugs that had been disguised as Percocet drugs, one firearm, $50,000 in money, drug ledgers and different objects, court docket information stated.

A number of members of the drug ring had been arrested, the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace stated.

Officers realized that Jeffrey Amarante-Perez and his brother, Jeisson Amarante-Perez, offered an alternate supply of drug provide for the Sosa-Ortiz operation. Jeisson Amarante-Perez and Edwin Rivas-Cruz, a drug courier for the brothers, had been recorded as they organized the drug transactions, court docket information stated. Drug ledgers seized through the October raid confirmed drug money owed to Jeffrey Amarante-Perez of greater than $30,000.

Jeisson Amarante-Perez, Rivas-Cruz, and Sosa-Ortiz have pleaded responsible and await sentencing.

Jeffrey Amarante-Perez has been detained since his arrest on July 1, 2022.