Bridgeport Gang Member Sentenced On Gun Charge: Feds

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A Bridgeport gang member will serve more than six years in prison for a gun possession crime, according to a statement from Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Chaz Dear, aka "Spazz," 24, will also serve three years of supervised release.

According to prosecutors, in late 2019, law enforcement received information that Dear, who was on state parole, was selling marijuana. Investigators made a controlled purchase of marijuana from Dear.

Dear was arrested Jan. 30, 2020, after a court-authorized search of his home revealed a Glock 27, .40 caliber handgun with an extended magazine loaded with 23 rounds of ammunition, as well as small quantities of heroin and crack cocaine, according to prosecutors.

Dear 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, and his criminal history includes state felony convictions for narcotics, weapon and larceny offenses.

In text messages in the weeks prior to his arrest in this case, Dear and other GHB/Hotz members discussed their prior and planned shootings of rival gang members, according to prosecutors.

Dear pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon March 31.