Hartford Man Sentenced For Fentanyl Trafficking

Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 11:55 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

BRIDGEPORT, CT.- On Tuesday, a 33-year-old Hartford, Connecticut, man, and the president of a local motorcycle club, learned he would be spending the next six years in federal prison, after being sentenced for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization responsible for distributing kilogram quantities of illicit narcotics throughout the Hartford, Connecticut area.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, Joshua Roman, 33, of Hartford, Connecticut, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Stefan R. Underhill to 72 months in federal prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to a federal narcotics trafficking crime. 

     On May 5, 2025, Roman appeared in Federal Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute 40 Grams or More of a Controlled Substance, Fentanyl.

According To Court Documents

     According to court documents and statements made in the District Court, in July 2022, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force launched an investigation into a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was distributing kilogram quantities of fentanyl and cocaine within the District of Connecticut.

     The investigation included court-authorized wiretaps, physical and electronic surveillance, controlled purchases of narcotics, and other investigative tools. A wiretap uncovered that Roman, the president of the Loose Cannonz motorcycle club, was attempting to broker transactions of kilogram quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil. The investigation further uncovered that Roman and his associates were receiving shipments of fentanyl and cocaine for distribution in the Hartford area.

     On May 18, 2023, Investigators made a controlled buy of around 100 grams of fentanyl from Roman. On June 7, 2023, following the controlled buy, Roman was taken into custody at his Hartford home, where Investigators seized an additional 50 grams of fentanyl from him. On the same day, Investigators executed a court-authorized warrant at the Loose Cannonz’s clubhouse in East Hartford, Connecticut, and located and seized an additional 50 grams of fentanyl.

     Roman, who has remained free on a $100,000 bond, is required to surrender himself to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on October 22, 2025.