David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MIHALKO, 42, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2022, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service identified a series of parcels suspected to contain controlled substances that were being mailed to the Norwich residence of Joseph Wilk, Jr. and a P.O. Box in Norwich that Wilk opened.  On November 21, 2022, investigators conducted a court-authorized search of a suspicious USPS Priority Express parcel mailed from California to the P.O. Box and found that it contained more than one pound of pure methamphetamine.  Investigators determined that Mihalko had been tracking the package.

On December 8, 2022, Wilk picked up the package in Norwich and drove to his residence.  Shortly thereafter, Norwich police officers arrived at his residence.  After Wilk gave his consent, investigators searched his home and seized approximately 2.575 kilograms of methamphetamine, approximately 16 grams of ecstasy, items used to process and package narcotics, two handguns, and $1,740 in cash.

The investigation revealed that several parcels suspected to contain narcotics were mailed to Wilk between May and December 2022.  After Wilk received methamphetamine that had been mailed to him, he would deliver some of it to Mihalko, who at the time was living in the Boston area, and distribute some of his to his own customers in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island.  Investigators subsequently interviewed Mihalko who admitted that he was responsible for sending the intercepted parcel and numerous others.

On October 12, 2023, Mihalko pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.  He has been detained since September 15, 2025, after he violated the conditions of his release and his bond was revoked.

Wilk pleaded guilty to the same charge and has been sentenced.

This investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Narcotics and Bulk Cash Trafficking Task Force and the Norwich Police Department.  The Task Force includes members from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Postal Service – Office of the Inspector General, and the Hartford, Plainville, and Meriden Police Departments.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher J. Lembo and Jocelyn Courtney Kaoutzanis.