New Haven, Conn.-A Berlin, Conn., resident who had assembled an arsenal of weapons with tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as ammonium nitrate and nitro methane for bombs and improvised explosive devices, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to 101 months in prison plus three years supervised release. Alan Zaleski, 49, has been in federal custody since being found guilty of 28 counts of illegal possession of firearms in March 2009. “This defendant possessed an arsenal of illegal weapons, the size and scope of which Connecticut law enforcement has rarely, if ever, encountered,” declared U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Fein. Zaleski and his weapons cache were uncovered in 2005 after a tree cutter working for a local utility on Zaleski’s property accidentally triggered an explosive, causing permanent hearing loss in one ear.
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