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Date: 08-03-2021
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Case Number: 3:20-cr-00229-JBA
Judge: Janet Bond Arterton
Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (New Haven County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Connecticut United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.
Curon Johnson, also known as “Buck,” 31, of East Hartford, was charged with Conspiracy to Distribute, and to Possess with Intent to Distribute, Fentanyl.
In the summer of 2020, Hartford Police learned that Kyle Pitts, also known as “Bark,” and others, were selling fentanyl, and that Pitts was using his apartment on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford to store fentanyl. Between August and October 2020, Hartford Police and the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force made multiple controlled purchases of fentanyl from Pitts, Johnson and Jabari Walcott, of Hartford.
Johnson has been detained since his arrest on November 4, 2020. On April 29, 2021, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl. This is Johnson’s second federal narcotics-related conviction.
The FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force includes members of the Hartford Police Department, East Hartford Police Department, New Britain Police Department, West Hartford Police Department, Connecticut State Police and Connecticut Department of Correction.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian P. Leaming.
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE; Conspiracy to Distribute, and to Possess with Intent to Distribute, Fentanyl)
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Outcome: Pitts and Walcott pleaded guilty to the same charge and await sentencing.
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