Hartford Courant · Jun 10, 2021
Man, 50, gets four years for dealing illegal painkillers from New Britain bodega
Citing the 229 people who’ve died of drug overdoses in New Britain since 2015, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced the former co-owner of a Corbin Avenue bodega to four years in prison for selling oxycodone pills to customers.
Noting that Cabrera, 50, had kept a spotless record until his arrest early last year, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall said she found it hard to balance that against a pattern of drug dealing in recent years.
“I see this offense as extremely serious,” Hall told Cabrera during a hearing on Zoom. “On the other hand I have a person who appears to have lived a good life, had a loving family, has absolutely no criminal history.”