Posted by DINO PORRAZZO at AMERICAS FREEDOM FIGHTERS

UNDREA KIRKLAND, also known as “Spooda,” 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 210 months (over 17 years) of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in multiple shootings and related gang activity.

Today’s announcement was made by Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Joseph T. Corradino, State’s Attorney for the Fairfield Judicial District; Bridgeport Acting Police Chief Rebeca Garcia; James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division; David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Acting U.S. Marshal Lawrence Bobnick.

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. Kirkand has been a member of the “Greene Homes Boyz” (“GHB/Hotz”), a gang based in the Charles F. Greene Homes Housing Complex in Bridgeport’s North End, whose members and associates distributed heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and Percocet pills; committed numerous acts of violence against rival gang members and other individuals; and celebrated their criminal conduct on social media websites such as Facebook and YouTube.

GHB/Hotz members and associates also committed acts of intimidation and made threats to deter potential witnesses to their crimes and to protect gang members and associates from detection and prosecution by law enforcement authorities. From approximately 2017 until August 2020, GHB/Hotz members were aligned with members of the “Original North End” (“O.N.E.”), a gang based in the Trumbull Gardens area of Bridgeport, against rival groups in Bridgeport, including the East End, East Side and PT Barnum gangs, as well as 150, which is a geographic gang based on the West Side of Bridgeport.

On September 16, 2021, Kirkland pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, admitting that on May 22, 2015, he shot and attempted to kill “KJ,” a member or associate of the 150 gang, at the intersection of Park Street and Shelton Street on Bridgeport’s East Side; on February 27, 2018, he and others shot and attempted to kill “TH,” “RF” and “GS,” members or associates of the East End gang, at 1306 Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport; and on October 4, 2018, he and others shot and attempted to kill “MS,” a member or associate of the East End gang, inside the Greene Homes housing complex.

Kirkland also appears in a YouTube video, surrounded by other GHB/Hotz and O.N.E. members, possessing a firearm with a 50-round drum, discussing acts of violence, and celebrating a jury acquittal in his state trial for attempted murder. Kirkland also asserted in the YouTube video that the acquittal was a result of jury intimidation.

Kirkland has been detained since April 11, 2019.

This investigation is being conducted by ATF, the FBI’s Safe Streets and Violent Crimes Task Forces, 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 Stratford and Naugatuck Police Departments. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rahul Kale, Jocelyn C. Kaoutzanis, Stephanie T. Levick and Karen L. Peck.

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

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