Prison Sentence For Trafficking Fentanyl Handed Out To Windsor Man

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A resident of Windsor was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.

Alexander Lee, 22, was sentencedby U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport, according to Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

According to court documents and statements made in court, a DEA New Haven Tactical Diversion Squad investigation, which included court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases of narcotics and the seizure of drugs that had been shipped through the U.S. mail, revealed that Lee and others received thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, and other controlled substances, from a source of supply on the west coast of the U.S., and then distributed the drugs to various street-level distributors and numerous drug customers in Connecticut, Avery said.

In February 2022, Lee traveled to California and shipped a package back to his Windsor residence. The package, which was intercepted and searched pursuant to a federal search warrant, contained about 18,000 fentanyl pills disguised as oxycodone. In May of that year, Lee again traveled to California and shipped a package to an associate in Bloomfield. A search of the package revealed 1,800 tablets of Alprazolam (Xanax) that appeared to be manufactured in Mexico, Avery said.

During the investigation, investigators also seized about 25 pounds of marijuana, seven firearms and thousands of dollars in cash, according to Avery.

Lee was arrested on June 29, 2022. On May 22, 2023, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. He was released on a $100,000 bond, and is required to report to prison on October 10, Avery said.

The investigation was conducted by the DEA New Haven Tactical Diversion Squad, with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Connecticut State Police; East Central Narcotics Task Force; and the Windsor and Enfield Police Departments. The DEA Tactical Diversion Squad is composed of personnel from the DEA and the officers from the Bristol, East Windsor, Hamden, New Britain, West Haven, Newington, Manchester, Glastonbury and Watertown Police Departments.