Waterbury Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Violating Supervised Release

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AARON THOMPSON, 50, last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.

 According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 10, 2010, Thompson was sentenced in New Haven federal court to 168 months of imprisonment for his leadership of a Danbury-area crack cocaine distribution ring.  He was released from federal prison in May 2020 and began serving a four-year term of supervised release.

On May 5, 2021, Danbury Police arrested Thompson for risk of injury and sexual assault offenses.  On April 28, 2022, while Thompson’s state case and federal supervised release violation matter were pending, Danbury Police arrested Thompson for narcotics distribution offenses.  He has been detained since that date.

Thompson subsequently pleaded guilty nolo contendere in state court and, on March 20, 2023, received an effective sentence of approximately five years of imprisonment.  Thompson will begin serving his four-year federal sentence when he completes his state sentence, which is currently due to end in April 2027.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David T. Huang.