Man who sold heroin out of his store gets prison sentence

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Hartford man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for selling heroin out of the convenience store he owned.

Federal prosecutors say 38-year-old Luis Reyes-Gutierrez was sentenced this week. He pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin.

The investigation that led to Reyes-Gutierrez’s arrest started in 2014 with multiple undercover heroin buys from a street level dealer. The investigation found that the dealer and other dealers were getting raw heroin from Reyes-Gutierrez, who with his brother owned the D-Town Supermarket in the city.

Prosecutors say Reyes-Gutierrez has been in custody since 2016. A native of the Dominican Republic who was in the U.S. legally, he also face deportation at the completion of his sentence.