Danbury Man Sentenced To 18 Months For Violating Supervised Release

DANBURY, CT — A Danbury man who violated the conditions of his release from jail on drug charges has been sentenced Tuesday to 18 months of imprisonment.

In 2017, Paul Mignani, 58, had been sentenced to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and heroin. The court also found that Mignani had allegedly distributed narcotics involved in the overdose deaths of two women in 2016.

Mignani was released from federal prison in June 2020. On Sept. 12, 2022, while Mignani was on supervised release, a court-authorized search of his Danbury residence revealed approximately 48 grams of loose fentanyl, 79 dose bags of fentanyl, 69 grams of cocaine, various prescription pills, items used to process and package narcotics, and firearm parts and ammunition, according to a news release from the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut.

Mignani is being prosecuted by the Danbury State’s Attorney’s Office for his new criminal conduct, and has agreed to a sentence of 15 years of incarceration, suspended after six years. The 18-month federal sentence will run consecutively to Mignani’s state sentence.