Hartford man sentenced for fentanyl distribution

Tablets suspected to be fentanyl are placed on a graph to measure their size at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York, New York.A Hartford man was sentenced to Thursday to seven years in federal prison and five years probation for his role in a fentanyl trafficking operation.

According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement officials received information in January 2019 that Leggett and Dante Barnes, also known as “Tre,” were trafficking narcotics in Hartford. The investigation revealed that Leggett and Barnes were using Leggett’s residence on Lenox Street in Hartford to package and store fentanyl and other…