Edwin Sanchez, 34, of Laurel Heights, Shelton.
That's what Sanchez agreed to when he pleaded guilty Monday to operating for at least a decade what Assistant U.S. Attorney Alina Marquez Reynolds called "Bridgeport's most lucrative heroin trafficking operation."
The prosecutor said Sanchez obtained heroin from people like Gilberto Rivera, a former Latin King official; Jorge Orlando Ardilla and others in New York. She said he then distributed it to people like Luke "Mega" Jones, and Frankie "The Terminator" Estrada, both of whom ran violent drug trafficking rings in the P.T. Barnum housing project.
Rivera, Ardilla, Jones and Estrada have been convicted in previous unrelated cases and are serving lengthy federal prison terms.
Also pleading guilty Monday were Edgar Nieves, 36, formerly of Broadbridge Avenue, and Jorge "Fat Georgie" Morales, 33, formerly of Hollister Street, both in Stratford. The pair was described by federal prosecutors as the top lieutenants in Sanchez's operation.
Reynolds and Assistant U.S. Attorney Harold Chen told Senior U.S. District Judge Alan H. Nevas that they will recommend 30-year
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