Plea Entered In Gun/Drug Case Related To Murder Probe

HARTFORD/MANCHESTER, CT — A plea has been entered in a drug and gun case with ties to a Manchester murder, a leading prosecutor said.

John H. Durham, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that 35-year-old Hartford resident Denroy Fable, who goes by the street name of “Kik,” 35, entered a guilty plea on Monday before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to firearm and narcotics offenses.

According to court documents and statements made in court, beginning in late December 2017, members of the FBI’s Connecticut Violent Crime Task Force and Hartford and Manchester police were searching for a "fugitive" wanted in connection with a homicide in Manchester.

Investigators developed" information connecting Fable to the fugitive being sought," Durham said.

On Jan. 2, investigators stopped Fable’s car in the vicinity of Airport Road in Hartford and found a loaded Ruger 9mm handgun and quantities of crack cocaine and marijuana in his jacket, Durhgam said.

After Fable was arrested, investigators searched Fable’s residence on Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford and located the fugitive. A search of the residence also revealed "resale quantities of cocaine, crack and fentanyl/heroin" along with "other evidence of narcotics trafficking, and multiple rounds of assorted ammunition," according to case records.

Fable’s criminal history includes state convictions for criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit.

Durham said It is a violation of federal law for a person previously convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm or ammunition that has moved in interstate or foreign commerce.

Fable pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, and offense that carries a maximum prison term of 10 years, and one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base (“crack”) and heroin, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

Judge Hall scheduled sentencing for Jan. 28, 2019.

Fable has been detained since his arrest.

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