Hartford Man Gets Time For Federal Gun Offense, Other Charges: Feds

HARTFORD, CT — A local man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to time behind bars regarding firearms possession charges and violations of a prior supervised release.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S attorney for Connecticut, said Denroy Fable, 40, of Hartford, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hartford to eight and a half years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing a firearm, and for violating conditions of a supervised release.

According to the evidence at Fable's October 2023 trial, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force and Hartford Police Department conducted an investigation of a business located at 136 Barbour St. in Hartford that was suspected of trafficking narcotics.

Avery said, the business, a purported clothing store, had an awning that read “The HOLE Ex-Con 360 the movement.”

In October 2022, investigators made two controlled drug purchases of marijuana from the store.

On Oct. 5, 2022, Avery said Fable and others were in the store when investigators conducted a court-authorized search of the store and seized quantities of suspected crack cocaine, psychedelic mushrooms, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, synthetic opioid pills, fentanyl pills disguised as oxycodone, MDMA, drug packaging and processing materials, U.S. currency, and five handguns.

Authorities said one of the handguns seized, a loaded .380 semiautomatic pistol, was found in a pocket of Fable’s jacket that was hanging on a shelf.

Subsequent forensic testing of the firearm revealed the presence of Fable’s DNA, Avery said.

Fable’s criminal history includes state convictions for criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit, and federal convictions for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack.

On Oct. 26, 2023, Fable was found guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

In March 2019, Fable was sentenced in New Haven federal court to 37 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release.

He was released from prison in August 2020 and was on supervised release when he possessed the firearm in October 2022, according to officials

Fable has been detained since Oct. 5, 2022.