Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELLSWORTH ROBERTSON, also known as “S," 37, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a 2008 federal conviction.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on May 20, 2008, ROBERTSON was sentenced in Hartford federal court to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine. He was released from federal prison in February 2014.
On November 7, 2015, while he was on federal supervised release, ROBERTSON was arrested by the Mohegan Tribal Police Department after he was found in possession of distribution quantities of cocaine and crack cocaine in the wake a stabbing incident at the Mohegan Sun casino. On that date, ROBERTSON and an associate, who is also a convicted felon, were involved in an altercation with another individual who was stabbed and seriously injured.
In May 2016, a court-authorized search of ROBERTSON’s New London apartment revealed two loaded semi-automatic pistols, more than two kilograms of cocaine, approximately 73 grams of heroin, drug paraphernalia, and thousands of dollars in U.S. currency.
ROBERTSON has been detained since his arrest on May 18, 2016.
This matter was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the New London Police Department and the Connecticut State Police’s Statewide Narcotics Task Force. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney John H. Durham.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
