Former Stratford Man Gets Prison Time For Dealing Heroin

STRATFORD, CT — A former Stratford resident was sentenced Monday to more than a year in prison for dealing heroin and having unregistered destructive devices, according to federal officials

Jesse Papcun, 32, received 37 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Connecticut.

Papcun was selling heroin and fentanyl before he was arrested in November 2018, the news release said. Inside a safe at Papcun’s home, officials found narcotics, items for processing and packaging drugs, and two destructive devices, according to the news release.

Papcun’s arrest was the result of an investigation by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and the Bridgeport Police Department, the news release said. The effort led officials to bring charges against five other people in addition to Papcun, all of whom have since pleaded guilty, according to the news release.

Papcun pleaded guilty Jan. 9 to conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession of an unregistered destructive device, the news release said. He is free on a $100,000 bond but must report to prison Jan. 7, 2021, according to the news release.