WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM BURRUSS, also known as "Cheese," 27, Meriden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sarah F. Russell in New Haven to a fentanyl trafficking offense.
According to court documents and statements made in court, after members of the FBI's Safe Streets Gang Task Force developed evidence that Burruss was selling fentanyl in and around New Haven, investigators made two controlled purchases from him in June 2025. Burruss was arrested on September 9, 2025, after investigators arranged a controlled pu...