Norwich Man Sentenced For Dealing Meth: District Attorney

NORWICH, CT — A Norwich man has been sentenced for dealing methamphetamine, according to a statement from Vanessa Roberts, U.S. attorney for Connecticut.

Joseph Wilk, Jr., 53, will serve 3 years of probation, including 6 months of home confinement. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.

According to prosecutors, in 2022, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service identified parcels suspected to contain drugs that were sent to Wilk's Norwich home and a P.O. Box in Norwich that belonged to him. Investigators searched a suspicious package mailed from California to Wilk's P.O. Box in November 2022 and found it contained more than 1 lb. of pure methamphetamine, prosecutors said.

Investigators found that Wilk’s co-conspirator, Michael Mihalko, had been tracking the package.

Wilk picked up the package in Norwich and drove to his home, prosecutors said. Shortly thereafter, Norwich police officers arrived at his residence.

Investigators searched his home and seized approximately 2.575 kilograms of methamphetamine, approximately 16 grams of ecstasy, items used to process and package narcotics, two handguns, and $1,740 in cash, according to prosecutors. Wilk was arrested on state charges at that time.

The investigation revealed that approximately 17 parcels suspected to contain narcotics were mailed to Wilk between May and December 2022.

After Wilk received methamphetamine that had been mailed to him, he would deliver some of it to Mihalko, who at the time was living in the Boston area. He would also deal some of it to his own customers in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Wilk also trafficked liquid Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, according to prosecutors.

Wilk pleaded guilty in federal court last year to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Mihalko, 41, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty to the same charge last year and awaits sentencing.