Danbury Man Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Violating Supervised Release

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL MIGNANI, 58, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 20, 2017, Judge Meyer sentenced Mignani to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and heroin.  Judge Meyer also found that Mignani had distributed narcotics involved in the overdose deaths of two women in 2016.

Mignani was released from federal prison in June 2020.  On September 12, 2022, while Mignani was on supervised release, a court-authorized search of his Danbury residence revealed approximately 48 grams of loose fentanyl, 79 dose bags of fentanyl, 69 grams of cocaine, various prescription pills, items used to process and package narcotics, and firearm parts and ammunition.

Mignani is being prosecuted by the Danbury State’s Attorney’s Office for his new criminal conduct, and has agreed to a sentence of 15 years of incarceration, suspended after six years.  Judge Meyer imposed the 18-month federal sentence to run consecutively to Mignani’s state sentence.

This matter was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Danbury Police Department.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel George.