CT man indicted after crashing car full of drugs. Search of apartment allegedly turns up more

A Bridgeport man has been indicted on narcotics charges after authorities allegedly found hundreds of fentanyl pills and bags of various types of drugs in a vehicle he crashed last year before a search of his apartment earlier this month allegedly turned up hundreds more pills and wax sleeves of fentanyl.

A grand jury returned the indictment in federal court in Hartford on Wednesday against 28-year-old Jermel Bates, also known as “Mel Kitty” and “Kitty,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.