EX-DETECTIVE SENTENCED TO 45 MONTHS

BRIDGEPORT -- A police detective whose addiction to painkillers led
to involvement with a big-time city drug dealer will be spending 45
months in federal prison.

"The community looks up to its police officers," Senior U.S.
District Judge Alan H. Nevas told retired city Police Detective
Jeffrey Streck, 39, of Monroe, who was also fined $5,000. "They
don't expect them to get involved with drug dealers."

Streck, a muscular 6-footer, was one of nearly three dozen people
caught up in an FBI investigation of drug dealing by Juan and Victor
Marrero -- two Bridgeport businessmen who have pleaded guilty to
drug charges. That same investigation also led to the disclosure
that Mayor John M. Fabrizi abused cocaine.

Nevas noted that addiction is a disease that "cuts across all
lines," occurring not only in housing projects but affluent communities.

The judge commended the former police officer for spending a week in
detox treatment at Bridgeport Hospital following his Feb. 19, 2005,
arrest and then successfully completing a highly intensive
outpatient substance abuse program at Griffin Hospital in Derby.

Still, Nevas thought it important to order Streck into a 500-hour
substance abuse program in prison, and then continue receiving
treatment after his release, when he will be supervised by the U.S.
Probation Office for three years. Nevas also ordered Streck to
perform 250 hours of community service during that supervision.

Moments before being sentenced to his prison term, Streck, rose to
address the judge. But first he turned toward the rear of the
courtroom and apologized to Bridgeport Police Sgts. Rick Donaldson
and Juan J. Gonzalez, who worked on the investigation. "When they
arrested me, they truly saved my life," said Streck, his voice
cracking with emotion. "My life was in a real bad way."

He said he grew up in a family that abused alcohol thinking "maybe
they loved liquor more than loved you.

"Now I understand they couldn't help themselves," said Streck,
pausing frequently to fight back tears. After dealing with his
addiction, he told the judge he is now helping his mother battle her
addiction. The former detective told the judge that he "always wanted
to be a cop" but now will be remembered only "as a dirty cop."

Recently, he said he stopped during a traffic accident in Trumbull
to help rescue the driver.

The responding Trumbull officer told him "I know all about you" and
just walked way.

"I guess that will be my legacy," he said.

For nearly an hour Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Felice Duffy
played several tape recordings in which Streck negotiated the
purchases of oxycodone and small amounts of cocaine from Juan Marrero.

All of the recorded telephone calls occurred during a time Streck
was on disability leave from the department, said Andrew Gaillard,
Streck's lawyer.

Duffy also quoted FBI documents in which Marrero told agents how he
and Streck became friends during workouts at the World Gym in
Trumbull in 2003. She said the pair's relationship grew to
socializing, then sharing painkillers and finally dealing drugs.

Marrero said Streck assured him he would let the drug dealer know if
there was an investigation, the prosecutor said.

"Streck used his position to ingratiate himself with a drug dealer,"
Duffy said. "He abused it to the point of participating in drug
trafficking with him."

But Gaillard said Streck's problems all traced back to job-related
injuries, which led to painkillers and addiction.

"He recognizes he did wrong and screwed up in a big way," Gaillard
said. "He wasn't motivated by the profit, but by the pills."