Former West Hartford Football Star Sentenced on Drug Charges

Former Conard High School football standout Jamie Coleman was sentenced Tuesday for his involvement with the violent Hartford gang of drug dealers known as the West Hell Gang, according to the Hartford Courant.

The Courant reports Coleman, 24, was sentenced to two years in jail for selling crack cocaine with the gang. Coleman was one of 25 West Hell gang members and associates indicted by a federal grand jury last year.

Coleman, who at one point had a scholarship to play football at UConn before it was withdrawn after he sustained a knee injury, wrote a remorseful letter to the judge.

In the long hand-written letter he wrote, via the Courant:

“I know now that what I was doing was wrong not just because it’s against the law, but morally. It’s not a way that I want or can continue to live my life.”

Read the full story at the Hartford Courant here.