A Stamford, Connecticut man who kept selling crack cocaine after a federal judge had already sentenced him to prison — and while he was out on bond waiting to report to prison — was sentenced on Friday, October 30, 2026, to an additional 14 months behind bars. Danny Turkvan, 55, also known as “Smooth,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in federal court in Bridgeport, U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan for the District of Connecticut announced. The additional term comes on top of the 46-month federal sentence Turkvan received in August 2025 in his original drug-trafficking case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, District of Connecticut
Sentenced, released to report later — and, prosecutors say, dealing again within weeks
On August 13, 2025, Turkvan was sentenced in federal court in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for his part in a narcotics trafficking conspiracy that operated across southwestern Connecticut. As is common in federal cases where a defendant is not considered a flight risk or a danger at that stage, he was left free on a $150,000 bond and ordered to report to prison on October 16, 2025, to begin serving the sentence. The investigation that followed found that Turkvan continued to distribute narcotics after that August sentencing — in the very weeks he was supposed to be preparing to surrender, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, District of Connecticut
On October 11, 2025 — five days before his report date — Stamford police arrested Turkvan on state charges and seized crack cocaine that prosecutors said he intended to distribute. He has been detained ever since. On July 8, 2026, he pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, known as crack. Friday's hearing in Bridgeport closed that second case: Judge Underhill imposed the additional 14 months for the dealing Turkvan admitted doing after he had already been sentenced once. Reporting by the New England Signal, published the same day, sets out the same sequence of dates and charges.
Source: New England Signal
The organisation behind the first case: the Rodney Canada network
Turkvan's original case grew out of a much larger investigation. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration's account of the August 2025 sentencing, the DEA's Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force and the Stamford Police Department identified Rodney Canada, also known as “Supreme,” as the leader of a drug trafficking organisation distributing large quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine in Stamford and elsewhere in southwestern Connecticut. The investigation used court-authorised wiretaps and controlled purchases of narcotics, and showed that Canada and others coordinated street-level distribution through Turkvan and other members of the conspiracy.
Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, August 2025 sentencing release
Turkvan, Canada and several other members of the conspiracy were arrested federally on May 14, 2024. That day, investigators carried out court-authorised searches at locations in Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport and Darien and seized approximately three kilograms of cocaine, nearly 400 grams of raw fentanyl, more than 500 bags of fentanyl, five firearms, a bulletproof vest and seven vehicles, the DEA said. On April 11, 2025, Turkvan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Canada pleaded guilty as well and, as of the DEA's August 2025 account, was awaiting sentencing.
Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, August 2025 sentencing release
Federal defendants who are allowed to remain free on bond and report to prison on a set date hold that freedom on conditions — above all, no new crimes. When a defendant is caught dealing in that window, prosecutors do not treat it as a mere violation of the old case: the conduct is charged as a fresh federal offence, with its own guilty plea and its own prison term stacked on top of the first. That is the path Turkvan's case took — a new arrest by Stamford police in October 2025, a new federal plea in July 2026, and a new 14-month term in October 2026 — quite apart from the 46 months he already owed.
Who ran the case, and what happens next
The second investigation was conducted by the Stamford Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Stolfi Collins, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Collins also prosecuted the original conspiracy case, alongside Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey M. Stone, through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) programme, according to the DEA. The original investigation drew in the Bridgeport Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, the Connecticut State Police, and the Norwalk, Danbury and Darien police departments.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, District of Connecticut
Turkvan has been in custody continuously since his October 11, 2025 arrest, so there is no second surrender date to await: he now serves the balance of his original 46-month sentence together with the additional 14 months imposed on Friday, followed by the three years of supervised release attached to his first sentence. For Stamford and the surrounding Fairfield County communities — home to a growing Punjabi and wider South Asian population across the New York–Connecticut corridor — the case closes a two-year federal effort against a network that, investigators said, moved fentanyl and crack through ordinary neighbourhoods in four Connecticut towns.