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New London restaurant owner Joshua Feldman was sentenced to four years of probation on Wednesday for drug distribution.
Feldman, the 47-year-old co-owner of Noble restaurant on Bank Street, is one of the 26 New London-area defendants indicted in 2019 on federal drug trafficking charges. He pleaded guilty in June 2019 to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 50 to 100 grams of cocaine.
Feldman appeared virtually Wednesday before Senior U.S. Judge for the District of Connecticut Vanessa L. Bryant, who sentenced him and ordered him to serve 100 hours of community service in the first year of probation, preferably in offering food services to individuals suffering from addiction.
Published January 21. 2021 9:26PM
By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
HARTFORD Federal prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for a Connecticut drug dealer convicted for his role in the killings of three people beaten to death in a turf dispute over crack cocaine sales.
The U.S. attorney s office notified Azibo Aquart s lawyer about its decision late last month, according to a document filed Tuesday in federal court in New Haven.
A spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Connecticut had no immediate comment Thursday.
Aquart, now 39, was sentenced to death in 2012 for the 2005 killings in Bridgeport, becoming the first federal court defendant in Connecticut to receive the death penalty since federal capital punishment was reinstated in 1988.