Dominican Drug Courier Sentenced For Connecticut Federal Drug Crime

Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 3:45 P.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

HARTFORD, CT.- A 26-year-old Dominican national, residing in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, will be spending the next three years in federal prison before being deported back to the Dominican Republic, after being sentenced yesterday for a federal drug trafficking crime.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Christian Andres Tejada Segura, 26, of the Dominican Republic, residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Vernon D. Oliver to 36 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to fentanyl trafficking. 

     In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Oliver ordered Tejada Segura to pay a $20,000 fine. On April 4, 2025, Tejada Segura appeared in Federal Court in Hartford, Connecticut, and pleaded guilty to one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute 40 Grams or More of a Controlled Substance, Fentanyl. Tejada Segura, who remains free on a $50,000 bond, must surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on September 11, 2025. 

According To Court Documents

     According to charging documents and statements made in the District Court, during an undercover narcotics investigation, Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration arranged a fentanyl purchase with an individual. On May 24, 2023, Tejada Segura traveled to Connecticut and was taken into custody in the Town of Orange, and was found in possession of 473 grams of fentanyl.

     U.S. Attorney Sullivan commended the investigative work of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Haven Task Force, the West Haven Police Department, and the New Haven Police Department, which led to the successful prosecution of Tejada Segura.