Harry Batchelor, Racketeering, Connecticut 2024

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HARRY BATCHELOR Sentenced to 50 Months for Racketeering, Bridgeport CT, 2024

BRIDGEPORT, CT – A 27-year-old Bridgeport gang member has been sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for a racketeering offense, authorities announced today.

HARRY BATCHELOR, also known as ‘Bookie,’ was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 50 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a violent Bridgeport street gang.

According to court documents and statements made in court, the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service and Bridgeport Police have been investigating multiple Bridgeport-based gangs whose members are involved in narcotics trafficking, murder and other acts of violence.

The East End gang, which Batchelor was a member of, distributed heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and Percocet pills; used and shared firearms; and committed at least six murders and other acts of violence against rival gang members and other individuals, authorities said.

On June 5, 2023, Batchelor pleaded guilty to one count conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity and specifically admitted that he distributed narcotics, that he knew the East End gang was involved in violent activity, and that a firearm that belonged to him was used by another East End member to shoot a rival O.N.E. member on October 17, 2019.

Batchelor has been detained since May 6, 2021.

This investigation is being conducted by the FBI’s Safe Streets and Violent Crimes Task Forces, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, Bridgeport Police Department, Connecticut State Police and the Bridgeport State’s Attorney’s Office, with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory and the Waterbury Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rahul Kale, Jocelyn C. Kaoutzanis, and Stephanie T. Levick.

The prosecution is part of the Justice’s Department’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), Project Longevity and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) programs.