New Haven Man, 31, Gets 5-Years For Heroin, Fentanyl Trafficking: Feds

New Haven CT

26 May, 2022

3:59 PM

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NEW HAVEN, CT — A 31-year-old New Haven man was sentenced to serve 63 months, just over five years, in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and heroin, according to U.S. Attorney for CT Vanessa Roberts Avery. Quentine Davis will also serve three years of supervised release after his prison sentence is completed. According to Avery, and court documents and statements made in court, in late 2019, the DEA New Haven Task Force began an investigation into the distribution of heroin and fentanyl in New Haven and Waterbury. The investigation, according to the Justice Department, included thousands of intercepted communications over court-authorized wiretaps. Those wiretaps revealed that Wilton Reynoso was receiving large quantities of fentanyl and heroin from a source in New York and then selling the narcotics to other drug distributors in Connecticut, according to Avery. Reynoso supplied Tyson Quinones with heroin and fentanyl, which Quinones then sold to his own customers in Waterbury, and also distributed to other dealers, including Deeshawn Pittman in New Haven, the US Attorney said. Davis worked with Pittman to sell fentanyl, heroin and crack cocaine to a large customer base in and around New Haven, federal prosecutors said. On June 13, 2020, investigators sought to arrest Reynoso and Quinones, of Waterbury, after intercepting a series of calls indicating that Reynoso and Quinones were planning to conduct a 200-gram heroin transaction. Avery said. On that date, Quinones was arrested at the anticipated meeting place and Reynoso fled from the meeting scene in his vehicle, which was found abandoned nearby, prosecutors said, and he was arrested a short time later after he returned to the vehicle. A search of a location in Waterbury that Reynoso used to store narcotics revealed more than a kilogram of a mixture of fentanyl and heroin, and items used to process and package narcotics, the US Attorney said. Davis has been detained since his arrest on August 17, 2020, per prosecutors. On December 15, 2021, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, records show Reynoso, Quinones and Pittman also pleaded guilty, Avery noted. On September 13, 2021, Reynoso, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment and faces immigration proceedings when he completes his prison term, Avery said. Quinones and Pittman await sentencing. This investigation was conducted by the DEA New Haven Task Force with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The Task Force includes participants from the U.S. Marshals Service, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division, Connecticut State Police and the New Haven, Hamden, West Haven, North Haven, East Haven, Branford, Ansonia, Meriden, Derby, Middletown, Naugatuck and Waterbury Police Departments. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John T. Pierpont, Jr. and Elena L. Coronado through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program. OCDETF identifies, disrupts and dismantles drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs and transnational criminal organizations through a prosecutor-led and intelligence-driven approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.