Keon Council, Heroin Distribution, Connecticut 2021

Waterbury, Connecticut – A 44-year-old man from Waterbury was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for distributing heroin in the city.

Keon Council, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in May 2020, the DEA New Haven Task Force and Waterbury Police Department began an investigation into a drug trafficking organization that was distributing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, and crack in the Waterbury area.

The investigation included court-authorized wiretaps on multiple phones used by members of the organization, physical surveillance, controlled purchases of narcotics, and motor vehicle stops that resulted in the seizure of drugs.

On November and December 2020, Council was intercepted multiple times on a wiretap ordering distribution quantities of heroin from James Grant, also known as “Bobo,” “Bo,” and “Jimbo,” and then sold the drugs to his own customers.

Council has been detained since his arrest on March 3, 2021, when law enforcement executed seven search warrants and seized approximately 40,000 bags of suspected heroin, 350 grams of cocaine, and 50 grams of crack cocaine, and nine firearms.

This investigation has been conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration New Haven Task Force and the Waterbury Police Department, and was led by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patrick F. Caruso and Brendan Keefe through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program.

U.S. Attorney Leonard C Boyle thanked the State’s Attorney’s Office for the Judicial District of Waterbury for its close cooperation in investigating and prosecuting this matter.

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