WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ISMAEL ROMAN, also known as "Poochie, " 47, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarah F. Russell in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for a cocaine trafficking offense and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in January and February 2026, an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Hartford Task Force revealed that Jose Colon,...