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New Haven K-2 Dealer Sentenced

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Synthetic Marijuana products seized by the NYPD during a 2015 raid in Brooklyn.

An admitted dealer of synthetic marijuana--known as K-2--who was arrested after a hundred people overdosed on the New Haven Green was sentenced on Thursday.

A U.S. District Judge says it did not matter to her whether the K-2 Quentin Staggers sold in Fair Haven was the same K-2 that caused overdoses in New Haven last August.

That’s because Staggers already pleaded guilty to one count of possessing K-2 with intent to distribute. She also says Staggers took steps to turnaround his life.

She sentenced Staggers to four-and-a-half months of house arrest, community service and 3 years probation.

Federal prosecutors had charged Staggers with three counts of drug dealing.

Cassandra Basler, a former senior editor at WSHU, came to the station by way of Columbia Journalism School in New York City. When she's not reporting on wealth and poverty, she's writing about food and family.