Mexican Resident Sentenced For Trafficking Cocaine Into Enfield

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A citizen of Mexico last residing in Enfield was sentenced Tuesday to 25 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine by a federal judge in Bridgeport.

Juan Sanchez-Razon, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley. He has been detained since his arrest on June 21, 2022. On March 3, 2023, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, according to Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in October 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force began investigating a drug trafficking organization, with ties to a Mexican drug cartel, operating in the area of Enfield and Springfield, Mass. The investigation, which included court-authorized wiretaps and controlled purchases and seizures of narcotics, revealed Sergio Horta-Molina of Suffield arranged the shipment of cocaine and other narcotics to Connecticut, then distributed the drugs to other members of the organization who, in turn, sold the drugs to street-level traffickers and drug customers, Avery said.

During the investigation, Horta-Molina, who owned Molina's Cafe on High Street in Enfield, arranged the shipment of a package from California to Sanchez-Razon’s residence in Enfield. On April 27, 2022, Sanchez-Razon, also known as "Juanito," delivered the package to another person, who was stopped by law enforcement as he was attempting to deliver the package to Horta-Molina, Avery said.

A search of the package revealed a kilogram of cocaine. On May 5, 2022, a search of Sanchez-Razon’s home yielded about 100 grams of cocaine and about $7,000 in cash, Avery said.

Sanchez-Razon faces immigration proceedings when he completes his prison term, according to Avery.

Horta-Molina pleaded guilty and was sentenced in June to 94 months of imprisonment for both the offense and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal narcotics trafficking conviction, Avery said.