Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced the sentencing of Stefan Bagley Jr., a 23-year-old resident of Stratford. Bagley was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 84 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in firearms trafficking.
Court documents and statements revealed that on July 26, 2023, Bagley was shot while traveling in Bridgeport. Later that day, his vehicle was involved in another shooting incident in the same city. An investigation showed that between October 2022 and October 2023, Bagley purchased over 20 handguns from licensed dealers and sold them to various customers, some of whom were legally prohibited from possessing firearms. He typically removed serial numbers from the guns to make them harder to trace.
Law enforcement has so far recovered only five of the trafficked firearms. One was used in a shooting incident in Stamford.
Bagley was arrested on December 18, 2023, and pleaded guilty to firearm trafficking conspiracy on August 19, 2024. He is currently released on a $100,000 bond and must report to prison by May 5.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with the Bridgeport Police Department and Connecticut State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Gresham prosecuted the case.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), an initiative under the Department of Justice aimed at reducing violent crime through collaboration among various stakeholders to address community-specific issues effectively.
