Case DIH-0677

Juan Reyes

Federal · Connecticut · Sentenced 2021

With Michael Nieves, supplied heroin and fentanyl in Hartford from 2017 to 2018 to dealers who sold around Norwich and New London; fentanyl that Christopher Dubicki bought from them and sold killed a 34-year-old Norwich man in July 2017, and investigators linked three more deaths to their drugs.

Court
Federal, District of Connecticut
State
Connecticut
Year of death
2017
Year sentenced
2021
Drugs
Fentanyl; heroin
Conduct
Upstream supplier
Relationship
No direct contact
Conviction
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
151 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what Connecticut’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Connecticut in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govMan who trafficked deadly fentanyl sentenced more 12 years federal prison

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