HARTFORD, Conn. — A Bronx, New York, woman who removed her GPS monitor and fled while awaiting trial in a fentanyl case was sentenced Nov. 3 in federal court in Hartford to six years in prison, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Connecticut said Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver sentenced Winifer Acosta Jimenez, 32, to 72 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, in February 2023 the Drug Enforcement Administration arranged to buy two kilograms of fentanyl from a wholesale drug supplier with multiple distribution points in the Northeast. Acosta Jimenez and a co-defendant, Ovidalis Jimenez Pujols, were arrested on Feb. 22, 2023, after they drove the fentanyl from New York to a meeting spot in Milford, Connecticut, prosecutors said.

Acosta Jimenez was released on $100,000 bond after her federal arrest on Jan. 31, 2024, according to the U.S. attorney's office. On July 31, 2024, she removed her GPS monitoring equipment and fled, prosecutors said. She was found and arrested in New York on Dec. 18, 2025, and has been held since.

She pleaded guilty on Feb. 3 to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.

Jimenez Pujols also pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2025, to four years in prison, prosecutors said.

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