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A Bristol man who had a very large fentanyl stash in Waterbury that included three kilograms and 75,000 glassine bags was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison, officials said.
Terry Collins, 31, who pleaded guilty Oct 2, 2024, to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and to money laundering, admitted he supplied a Waterbury drug ring as well as scamming a pandemic relief loan, pocketing nearly $20,000, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors said the amount of fentanyl seized in the case was a record for law enforcement in the state.
Collins was arrested as part of a case investigated by the DEA New Haven Task Force, the DEA Tactical Diversion Squad, the Waterbury Police Department, and other law enforcement agencies.
Law enforcement determined that Gawayne Fisher was trafficking drugs in and around Waterbury while on federal supervised release, according to federal prosecutors.
The investigation, which included court-authorized wiretaps on multiple phones, physical surveillance, and controlled purchases of narcotics, revealed that Fisher and others were selling large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine, as well as counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax pills, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said Collins supplied fentanyl to Fisher’s organization, and he maintained a location on Yale Street in Waterbury to store, process, and package narcotics. On Jan. 27, Fisher was sentenced to 18 years in prison for this drug trafficking offense and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction. --->READ MORE HERE
John Diehl admitted to defrauding the government out of $379,000 worth of SBA loans.
The former Missouri House Speaker pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud connected to a Small Business Administration loan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the money was used to settle lawsuits related to previous scandals.
John Diehl, the former speaker who resigned after a sexting scandal involving a legislative intern, entered the plea in federal court Thursday. He admitted to defrauding the government out of $379,900 worth of SBA loans.
5 On Your Side has learned some of that money was used to settle a lawsuit involving the former legislative intern. Diehl settled the case in 2023, eight years after the 2015 sexting scandal that led to his resignation.
Prosecutors stated that the misuse occurred between 2020 and 2024, after he requested the money for his law firm under the CARES Act.
He applied for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). The EIDL program was designed to help struggling small businesses during the pandemic by providing low interest loans for working capital, payroll and other fixed debts.
In 2020, his business was awarded $94,900. Prosecutors said he used that money to pay credit cards, college tuition, a mortgage, multiple cars and country club dues. They said he also transferred $50,000 of the funds into the company's retirement plan, in which Diehl was the only participant.
In March of 2022, he requested a loan modification and received an additional $285,000. Diehl said that the Diehl Law Group will use the funds “to alleviate economic injury caused by disaster."--->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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