David X. Sullivan, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced the sentencing of Jonathan Cruz-Carmona. The 34-year-old was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment for an assault committed while incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury.
Court documents reveal that on December 18, 2023, Cruz-Carmona assaulted another inmate using a weapon made from a broken pencil and two razor blades. This attack resulted in wounds to the victim's chin and neck, though they were not life-threatening.
Cruz-Carmona pleaded guilty on June 3, 2024, to assault with a dangerous weapon. At the time of this offense, he was already serving a 200-month federal sentence from the Western District of New York for murder with a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The new sentence will run consecutively to his existing sentence.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia E. King.
