HARTFORD, Conn. — A Jamaican citizen who had been living in Bridgeport pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Hartford to fentanyl trafficking and to lying to investigators about his identity, the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut said.

Conrod Davy, 41, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and one count of making false statements, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, an investigation by a Drug Enforcement Administration task force based in Hartford found that Davy was trafficking large quantities of fentanyl and was involved in processing and packing the drug. Investigators bought about two kilograms of fentanyl from him in a controlled purchase on April 24, prosecutors said.

Davy was arrested April 30. After his arrest, he told investigators he was a U.S. citizen named "Timothy Stater" and gave a false date of birth, according to prosecutors. Investigators determined that he was a Jamaican citizen who had been removed from the United States in November 2019 as a result of a criminal conviction in Florida, the office said.

The fentanyl charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life; the false-statement charge carries up to five years. Davy has been held since his arrest.

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