State v. Johnson

The defendants appeal from their convictions, after a jury trial, of possession of heroin in violation of General Statutes § 21a-279 (a) and possession of drug paraphernalia in violation of General Statutes § 21a-267 (a). They claim that the trial court should have granted their motion to suppress.

On April 2, 1987, Waterbury police received information from a known confidential informant that “cocaine and heroin were being sold from the defendants’ apartment.” The police then set up a controlled buy. They searched the informant, gave him $30 and observed him enter the defendants’ apartment…