United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut
Press Release

WATERBURY MAN SENTENCED TO 41 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR PCP OFFENSE

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR SANTIAGO, 33, of Rosewood Avenue, Waterbury, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release.  On August 29, 2008, SANTIAGO pleaded guilty to two counts of using a telephone to aid the distribution of phencyclidine (“PCP”).

On March 26, 2008, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging SANTIAGO and several other individuals with various narcotics offenses involving the distribution of PCP in New Haven and the surrounding area.  The charges against SANTIAGO stem from two recorded telephone conversations between SANTIAGO and co-defendant Anthony Washington that resulted in Washington selling one ounce of liquid PCP to SANTIAGO on February 27, 2008.  Washington’s cellular telephone was the target of a wiretap investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New Haven Safe Streets Task Force.

SANTIAGO has been detained in federal custody since his arrest by Task Force agents on March 14, 2008.

Washington pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of phencyclidine.  On January 20, 2009, he was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment.

This matter was investigated by the FBI New Haven Safe Streets Task Force, which is composed of representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New Haven Police Department, the Ansonia Police Department, the Milford Police Department, the Hamden Police Department, the East Haven Police Department, the Connecticut State Police and the Connecticut Department of Correction.  This matter is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert M. Spector.

CONTACT:

U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Tom Carson
(203) 821-3722
thomas.carson@usdoj.gov