3-Year Sentence Handed Down In Drug Case Tied To West Hartford

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A sentence of more than three years has been handed down in a federal fentanyl case connected to a West Hartford connection.

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United State's attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced Friday that 31-year-old Curon Johnson, also known as "Buck," was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.

Johnson is from East Hartford.

According to court documents and statements made in court, the case unraveled in the summer of 2020, when Hartford Police learned that Kyle Pitts, also known as "Bark," and others, were selling fentanyl, and that Pitts was using his apartment on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford to store the potent drug. Between August and October 2020, Hartford Police and the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force made multiple controlled purchases of fentanyl from Pitts, Johnson and Jabari Walcott, of Hartford.

Johnson has been detained since his arrest on Nov. 4. On April 29, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl. It represents Johnson’s second federal narcotics-related conviction, Boyle said.

Pitts and Walcott pleaded guilty to the same charge and await sentencing, Boyle said.