A Connecticut gang member received a five-year federal prison sentence on Tuesday for trafficking narcotics throughout the southwestern part of the state.
Modeste Adodo, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. On Sept. 16, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
In 2022, the FBI Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force reportedly made controlled purchases of narcotics from Adodo, a member and purported leader of the 150 gang based on Bridgeport’s West Side while investigating gang activity, court records show.
“A subsequent wiretap investigation determined that Christian Pichardo was supplying Adodo and other distributors with fentanyl, heroin, crack and powder cocaine and opioid pills,” according to court records. “Some of the drugs seized during the investigation had been cut with fentanyl analogues, nitazines, and xylazine.” Federal officials noted that nitazines are synthetic opioids” stronger than fentanyl,” and xylazine is “a large animal tranquilizer.”
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A wiretap also reportedly caught Adodo discussing his possession of firearms and “transferring a firearm to a gang associate,” court records show.
Adodo was arrested on Aug. 5, 2024. He is currently released on a $100,000 bond and living in New Haven. He is required to report to prison on Feb. 10, 2026, according to court records.
Pichardo pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison on July 14, court records show.
The case has been investigated by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bridgeport, Stratford and Norwalk Police Departments.