Danbury Man Pleads Guilty in Cocaine Mail Scheme

0:00It's April 23rd. This is Hartford News today, your AI-powered local news. A 42-year-old Dan Berryman just pleaded guilty in federal court to running a major cocaine trafficking ring, shipping the drug from Puerto Rico. Straight to Connecticut through the mail, Roman Santiago, Jr. faced charges for conspiring to distribute and possess within 10 more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, a crime that comes with a mandatory minimum of 10 years behind bars and up to life in prison. This operation ran from September 2024, right through February 2025, with U.S. Postal inspectors nabbing multiple packages headed to addresses linked to him, each packing about 2 kilograms of the stuff. Back on February 12, 2025, agents arrested Santiago and hit his place with a search, uncovering a fresh shipment from Puerto Rico. Plus, extra cocaine, and even some fin though. In the end, they seized over 11 kilograms total, he's out on $50,000 bond now, and

1:03sentencing drops July 23rd, another win, for cracking down on these mail-order drug schemes.