New Haven Independent

The sentencings took place Wednesday and Thursday in Hartford by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello, according to U.S. Attorney spokesman Tom Carson.

The three men were nabbed in a probe by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency called “Operation King of the Hill.” The feds and local cops did wiretaps on wireless phones, conducted surveillance and controlled buys of heroin in New Haven.

Twenty people have been charged in the probe. The latest three to be sentenced were Samuel Estrada-Vasquez, 45, of Poplar Street; Victor Reyes aka “MacGyver,” 41, of Greenwich Avenue; and Eugene Moreno, 56, of Alden Road in West Haven. They each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. They got 100, 103 and 50 months of prison respectively.

Robbery

In other news, police report an armed robbery at 9:17 p.m. Thursday at 1400 Whalley Ave., which is the Spooner Restaurant.

Crime Map

Click here for a list of crimes on Dec. 3. Click on the image below to see those crimes placed on a city-wide map.

For block-by-block year-to-date crime info, and daily crime maps, check the Independent’s crime log.