Rocky Hill Oxycodone Dealer Sentenced

ROCKY HILL, CT - Nicholas Dyber, 30, of Rocky Hill, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison and fined $40,000 for dealing oxycodone pills, United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly announced. His prison sentence will be followed by five years of supervised release.

The case against Dyber, a former West Hartford resident, began in 2012 when the "Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Haven Task Force began investigating an oxycodone trafficking operation" Dyber operated.

"The investigation, which included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases of oxycodone, physical surveillance and the use of an undercover officer, revealed that Dyber was being supplied with bulk quantities of oxycodone by Harland Fields of the Bronx, NY, and Eduardo Garcia of Modesto, CA," said Daly in a statement. "At times, Dyber paid Brian Vanderpool, of West Hartford, to travel to New York to pick up oxycodone from Fields and transport the pills to Dyber in Connecticut. Dyber distributed the pills he received from Fields and Garcia to customers and other Hartford-area distributors."

Feds arrested Dyber on October 11, 2013, and in late February 2014, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 10,000 oxycodone pills.

Fields, Garcia and Vanderpool also pleaded guilty, according to Daly. In August 2014, Garcia was sentenced to 60 months in prison; in October 2014, Fields was sentenced to 66 months in prison; and in November 2014, Vanderpool was sentenced to four months in a halfway house and four years of supervised release.

According to Daly, the case was investigated additionally by personnel from the New Haven, Hamden, Branford, Meriden, West Haven, North Haven, East Haven, Derby and Ansonia Police Departments, which are part of the DEA's New Haven Task Force.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Caruso.