Mexican national with ties to drug cartel gets prison for trafficking cocaine in CT

A Mexican national who previously lived in Connecticut was sentenced to over two years in prison for trafficking cocaine, federal officials said.

Octavio Razon-Mejia, also known as “Pachas,” 37, a citizen of Mexico who last resided in Enfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 28 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

In October 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force initiated an investigation into a drug trafficking organization with ties to a Mexican drug cartel that was operating in the Enfield area as well as Springfield, Massachusetts, court records showed.

Investigators, using court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases and seizures of narcotics, learned that Sergio Horta-Molina of Suffield arranged the shipment of cocaine and other drugs to Connecticut. He then distributed the drugs to others, including Razon-Mejia, who sold the drugs to street-level traffickers and drug customers, according to the court records.

Razon-Mejia has been detained since his arrest on May 5, 2022. He faces immigration proceedings when he completes his prison term, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

Horta-Molina pleaded guilty. On June 6, he was sentenced to 94 months in prison for both the offense and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior narcotics trafficking conviction, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.