Hartford Man Pleads Guilty To Dealing Fentanyl: Feds

HARTFORD/BRIDGEPORT, CT — A city-based drug dealer has pleaded guilty in federal court to trafficking fentanyl, authorities said.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, announced Jahquan Blackwin, also known as “Mula,” 27, of Hartford, pleaded guilty Friday, Feb. 23, before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a fentanyl trafficking offense.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in June 2022, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force began investigating Blackwin and others for distributing fentanyl and cocaine in the Hartford area.

Avery said, in July and August 2022, investigators made four controlled purchases of fentanyl from Blackwin.

Blackwin was arrested on a federal criminal complaint on Aug. 17, 2022.

Avery said, on that date, a search of Blackwin’s Judson Street apartment revealed approximately 750 grams of fentanyl, 500 grams of cocaine, 32 grams of crack cocaine, 700 grams of psilocybin, and five kilograms of marijuana.

Investigators also found and seized two loaded Polymer 80 handguns (“ghost guns”), one of which was fitted with a high-capacity magazine and a loaded Glock 43X handgun.

Blackwin pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 40 years.

He will be sentenced June 6.

Blackwin has been detained since his arrest.

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