West Hartford Man Sentenced for Cocaine Trafficking

0:00It's April 23rd, welcome to Hartford News Today, powered by AI. A 37-year-old West Hartford man just got hit with 12 years in federal prison for feeding cocaine to a trafficking crew running out of a station. New Britain car dealership, Nelson Alejandro Capo, with sentenced Wednesday in Hartford to 144 months behind bars, plus five years of supervised release. The feds say he hooked up the group led by Wilfredo Ortiz at Supreme Automotive with major weight, delivering about two kilograms on September 24th, 2024, and four more on October 12th through a middleman. Investigators from the FBI's Northern Connecticut gang task force and new Britain police built the case last year using wiretaps around the clock. Surveillance and undercover buys, exposing the whole operation step by step. Alejandro Capo got nabbed November 22nd, 2024, pleaded guilty last December to conspiracy on five kilograms or more of Coke, plus two distribution counts, and has been locked up

1:04since early February this year after Bon Guy yanked. Meanwhile, Ortiz is doing 135 months, his partner 120, showing how these task forces are dismantling these networks. One dealer at a time.