Tyevhon King, Heroin Trafficking, CT 2024

TYEVHON KING, also known as “Twin,” 30, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. The admission marks the fall of a key figure in a violent, organized narcotics pipeline that pumped at least 30 kilograms of Mexican heroin into the streets of Bridgeport between April 2015 and March 2017.

Court documents reveal KING was no low-level dealer—he was a central distributor in a tightly run trafficking ring that imported bulk heroin from Mexico, then sliced and sold it across the city. Federal investigators say KING personally received more than three kilograms of the drug during the course of the conspiracy, funneling it to a network of street-level buyers and dealers in high-crime neighborhoods.

The probe, led by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and the DEA’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, included multiple controlled buys that directly linked KING to the sales. Agents also seized vehicles registered to him that had been retrofitted with hidden compartments—”traps”—engineered to smuggle heroin and evade law enforcement checkpoints.

On March 16, 2017, a federal grand jury in Hartford indicted KING and six co-conspirators on charges tied to the heroin ring. KING was arrested days later on March 24 and has remained in federal custody ever since, with no bond issued due to the severity of the charges and risk of flight.

He now faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life, set for pronouncement on May 10 by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant. Prosecutors are expected to push for the harshest penalty, citing the scale of the operation and its devastating toll on Bridgeport communities.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph Vizcarrondo and Alina Reynolds. The investigation was a joint operation between the FBI, DEA, and Bridgeport Police Department—a reminder that federal heat still burns hot on city drug corridors.