Bridgeport, CT
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Bridgeport Heroin Trafficker Pleads Guilty
A 31-year-old Bridgeport man pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, according to John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, Green was a member of a Bridgeport-based heroin trafficking organization that, between approximately April 2015 and March 2017, received at least 30 kilograms of heroin that had been transported from Mexico, and then distributed the drug in the Br…
Paterson, NJ
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Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death
PATERSON, N.J. -- A New York couple who sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin from Paterson that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death in New Jersey, a judge ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick, the judge said, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who authorities said bought it from a dealer in Paterson. Representatives of the attorney general's office in both states worked together to bring the charges after Cabral's mother found her son's body in their home on April 3,…
