The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that a West Hartford man has been sentenced in connection with a 2024 incident.

By Ronni Newton

A 37-year-old West Hartford man was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 12 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, according to an announcement by David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Nelson Alejandro-Capo was arrested on Nov. 22, 2024, following an investigation into a drug trafficking organization by the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force along with the New Britain Police Department. The organization, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, was operating out of the car dealership Supreme Automotive, located on Main Street in New Britain, and was by headed by Wilfredo Ortiz.

“The investigation included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, physical and electronic surveillance, and several controlled purchases of narcotics, primarily cocaine, from Ortiz and other members of the conspiracy,” Thursday’s press release stated.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Alejandro-Capo supplied Ortiz with cocaine, using co-conspirator Eli Samuel O’Farrill-Fernandez as a middleman. The investigation indicated that on Sept. 24, 2024, Alejandro-Capo supplied Ortiz with approximately two kilograms of cocaine, and on Oct. 12, 2024, he supplied approximately four kilograms of cocaine.

Authorities arrested Ortiz, along with several other members of this drug trafficking organization, on Nov. 14, 2024. As part of the investigation, court-authorized searches of Supreme Automotive, residences, and other locations connected to the organization were conducted, and authorities said they seized “more than five kilograms of cocaine, more than 200 grams of fentanyl, approximately 30 grams of heroin, a kilogram press, seven firearms, ammunition, approximately $75,000 in cash, and 26 vehicles.”

Alejandro-Capo was arrested on Nov. 22, 2024, and on Dec. 17, 2025, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine.

Alejandro-Capo had been released on bond, but according to the press release his bond was revoked and he had been back in custody since Feb. 6, 2026. Online court records indicate that he was also being held on $500,000 bond on charges that include first-degree unlawful restraint, threatening, harassment, and assault in connection with a Jan. 24 arrest by Connecticut State Police Troop H.

Both Ortiz and O-Farrill-Fernandez pleaded guilty to their charges, and are currently serving prison terms of 11 years and three months, and 10 years, respectively.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office noted that the investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force; Homeland Security Investigations; Drug Enforcement Administration; Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division; U.S. Marshals Service; Connecticut State Police; Connecticut Department of Correction; Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles Police; and the New Britain, Hartford, West Hartford, Waterbury, Naugatuck, East Hartford, Brookfield, Milford, Norwich, Orange, North Haven, Meriden, Berlin, and Manchester Police Departments. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Natasha Freismuth, Reed Durham, and David Nelson are prosecutors in the case.

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