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Date: 10-22-2024
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Judge: Victor A. Bolden
Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (New Haven
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office in New Haven
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Shortly after midnight on September 5, 2021, Troy Harris, age 50,, who had absconded from state parole, approached a woman in the parking lot of a supermarket in Bristol. Pointing what appeared to be handgun at the victim, Harris demanded that she leave her car and give him the keys. After the victim complied, Harris threw her to the ground and drove and away in her car.
In the early morning hours of September 7, 2021, Harris drove the victim’s car to Hoffman’s “Guns for the Good Guys,” a federal firearms licensee located in Newington, and crashed it through the store’s front entrance. He then entered the store, kicked out a display case, and stole five handguns before fleeing the scene on foot. He was arrested the next day.
State charges against Harris relating to the carjacking are pending.
Only one of the five stolen firearms has been recovered by law enforcement.
This matter was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Newington and Bristol Police Departments.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel E. Cummings through the Justice’s Department’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce gun violence and other violent crime, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. In May 2021, the Justice Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results. For more information about Project Safe Neighborhoods, please visit www.justice.gov/psn.
U.S. Attorney Avery thanked the State’s Attorney’s Office for the Judicial District of New Britain for its close cooperation in investigating and prosecuting this matter.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 60 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution of $36,166.30.
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