Admitted Middletown Meth Dealer Gets 5-Plus Years

MIDDLETOWN, CT — A Middletown man who admitted to dealing drugs has been ordered to spend more than five years in a federal prison.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Jason Fabel, 46, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 70 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking methamphetamine.

According to case records, on March 16, 2022, Fabel was arrested after the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force and the Middletown Police Department conducted a court-authorized search of his Middletown residence and seized approximately 100 grams of methamphetamine, a "quantity" of ketamine, narcotics paraphernalia, and a loaded 9mm handgun.

According to case records, on April 27, 2023, while Fabel was free on bond and awaiting trial, he was arrested for violating conditions of his pretrial release by possessing approximately 24 grams of methamphetamine, 6 grams of ketamine, and 10 grams of MDMA, also known as ecstasy.

Fabel has been detained since April 27, 2023.

On July 15, 2024, he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.