Windsor Locks Woman Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges

NEW HAVEN, CT — A Windsor Locks woman pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to drug trafficking and money laundering offenses related to the distribution of heroin and various prescription medications.

Christine Miles, 59, a retired nurse, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven, according to John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

According to court documents and statements made in court, beginning around 1998, Miles and others conspired to possess and distribute heroin, oxymorphone, hydrocodone and alprazolam, Durham said.

On Aug. 4, 2016, members of the North Central Narcotics Task Force and the DEA conducted a court-authorized search of Miles’ home at 350 North Street in Windsor Locks and seized a large quantity of various prescription medications, approximately two pounds of marijuana, $10,093 in cash and more than $13,000 in gift cards. Miles was arrested on state charges at that time, Durham said.

The investigation revealed that, through this drug trafficking conspiracy, Miles and her husband amassed more than $700,000 in a number of individual and jointly held bank accounts. The investigation also revealed that, after her arrest on state drug charges in Aug. 2016, Miles used $17,359 of drug proceeds to purchase 11 U.S. Postal Service money orders and a bank cashier’s check payable to a New Jersey-based moving company for a planned move from Connecticut to New Mexico, Durham said.

Miles was arrested on federal charges on Nov. 16, 2017, and has been detained since her arrest. On Feb. 2, 2018, another court-authorized search of her North Street residence revealed additional drug evidence and $41,904 in cash, Durham said.

Miles pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, oxymorphone, hydrocodone and alprazolam, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, and one count of engaging and attempting to engage in a monetary transaction affecting interstate commerce, involving criminally derived property of a value greater than $10,000, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, according to Durham.

In pleading guilty, Miles agreed to forfeit her interest in her Windsor Locks residence and $767,056.74 seized from the residence and multiple bank accounts, Durham said.

Judge Meyer scheduled sentencing for Aug. 7, 2018.

File photo courtesy of Windsor Locks Police Department

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