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D’Andre Burrus Sentenced to 18 Years for Racketeering, Waterbury CT, 2024
A Waterbury gang member has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for his role in a violent street gang. D’Andre Burrus, also known as ‘Dopeman,’ was sentenced to 216 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in the 960 gang.
According to court documents, Burrus, 30, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and admitted to trafficking heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine in furtherance of the 960 enterprise. He also admitted to conspiring to murder members of a rival gang in retaliation for the murder of a fellow 960 member.
The investigation into the 960 gang began in an effort to address drug trafficking and related violence in Waterbury. The FBI, ATF, and Waterbury Police have been investigating multiple Waterbury-based groups, including the 960 gang. On September 14, 2021, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a 36-count indictment charging Burrus and 15 other 960 gang members with racketeering, narcotics trafficking, firearm possession, murder, attempted murder and assault, and obstruction of justice offenses.
On October 11, 2018, 960 members Gabriel Pulliam and Julian Scott shot into a crowd of people, killing an innocent bystander, 30-year-old Fransua Guzman, and paralyzing a second victim. Burrus was in one of two cars 960 members drove to the scene of the shooting.
Burrus has been detained since his arrest on February 19, 2019. This investigation has been conducted by the FBI’s Northern Connecticut Gang Task Force, Waterbury Police Department, ATF, and U.S. Marshals Service, with the assistance of the Southington Police Department, Watertown Police Department, New Milford Police Department, Connecticut State Police, Connecticut Department of Correction, Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory, and the DEA Laboratory.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Geoffrey M. Stone, John T. Pierpont, Jr. and Natasha M. Freismuth, and Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Don E. Therkildesen, Jr. and Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney Alexandra Arroyo of the Waterbury State’s Attorney’s Office, who have been cross-designated as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys in this matter.
This prosecution is a part of the Justice’s programs including Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF). PSN is a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce gun violence and other violent crime, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations through a prosecutor-led and intelligence-driven approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
Key Facts
- State: Connecticut
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Violent Crime|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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