Law enforcement officers also recovered a custom-made red and black AR-15-style rifle with the words “SUU WHOOP” inscribed on it. 50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol that had been reported stolen in Georgia. According to police reports and photographs documenting the search, law enforcement officers located two completed Glock-style privately made firearms (commonly known as “ghost guns”), and a. The Ansonia Police Department searched BURROUGHS’s house the next day. Thanks to the collaboration with the NYPD Major Case Field Intelligence Team, NYSP and Ansonia CT Police Department for their hard work.”Īccording to the allegations in the Superseding Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court and in other public court documents:įrom approximately 2019 through approximately January 2022, BURROUGHS purchased the parts for “ghost guns,” assembled the parts into completed firearms, and then illegally sold the working and completed firearms.īased on review of surveillance video capturing the event from multiple angles, on March 14, 2021, BURROUGHS exited his house in Ansonia, Connecticut with a handgun and-in broad daylight-discharged five rounds at two men who had approached his house. The NYC Crime Gun Intelligence allows law enforcement to identify patterns, leads, and potential suspects such as in this case in order to make our communities safer. This case sends a clear message to those who seek to produce ghost guns for the criminal marketplace. DeVito said: “ATF has no higher priority than stopping the flow of illegal guns of any kind. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant-a convicted felon-was in the business of building and selling untraceable ‘ghost guns.’ Thanks to our law enforcement partners, his dangerous ghost gun business has been shut down.”ĪTF New York Special Agent-in-Charge John B. DeVito, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”), announced that MELVIN BURROUGHS was charged in a superseding indictment with conspiring to traffic firearms, trafficking firearms, and being a felon in possession of ammunition. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John B.

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