After his prison term, Trevor Pierce was also sentenced to serve five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven.
His sentencing stemmed from “Operation Samson,” an initiative headed by the ATF and the Bridgeport and New Haven Police Departments targeting violent criminals, illegal firearm possession and firearm trafficking.
In the spring of 2014, 40 ATF special agents and personnel were deployed with New Haven and Bridgeport Police to conduct numerous covert operations.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in March 2014, the ATF began an investigation into Carlos “Camby” Colon and Carlos “Joel” Colon, known narcotics and firearm traffickers in Bridgeport.
Law enforcement had received information that Joel Colon was interested committing an armed robbery of a drug dealer. During the investigation, which employed the use of an undercover ATF agent, the Colons recruited Pierce and others to commit an armed robbery of 15 kilograms of cocaine from what they believed to be a narcotics stash house.
On April 11, 2014, Pierce, the Colons, Humberto Soto, Markus Mendez, Nelson Diaz and Hiram “Gringo” Mojica gathered in Stamford, where they believed they would be informed of the address of the narcotics stash house, and would then head there to rob it.
Instead, all seven were arrested at that time.
A search of the car used by Pierce, Diaz and Mojica turned up a loaded .40-caliber pistol, an EO Tech sight, black gloves, as well as two rolls of duct tape that Diaz had recently purchased. A search of the center console of the vehicle that Soto and Mendez drove revealed a loaded and 9mm pistol.
Pierce has been detained since April 11, 2014. On March 10, 2015, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
His criminal history includes state convictions for robbery, sexual assault, assault and breach of peace.
Camby Colon, Joel Colon, Soto, Diaz, Mendez and Mojica have also pleaded guilty.
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