Jail Time For Hartford Gang Member/Drug Dealer, Feds Say

HARTFORD/NEW HAVEN, CT — A Hartford gang member was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 4.5 years behind bars for drug dealing and possession offenses.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, said Edil Ramos, also known as “E,” 40, of Hartford, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.

According to court documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from an FBI Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force and Hartford Police Department investigation into drug trafficking and related criminal acts committed by members and associates of the Los Solidos and Latin Kings street gangs in Hartford’s South End.

Avery said, between February and April 2020, investigators made five controlled purchases of crack cocaine and fentanyl from Ramos, a member of Los Solidos.

Most of the drug sales occurred at Ramos’ residence on Wethersfield Avenue, she said.

Ramos was arrested April 8, 2020. On that date, a search of his residence revealed a 9-mm firearm, a loaded firearm magazine, approximately 1,400 bags of fentanyl, a distribution quantity of crack cocaine and $33,062 in cash, Avery said.

Ramos has been detained since his arrest on April 8, 2020.

On March 28, 2022, he pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base (“crack”), and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

The FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force includes members of the Hartford Police Department, East Hartford Police Department, New Britain Police Department, West Hartford Police Department, Connecticut State Police and Connecticut Department of Correction.