Daniel Deandrade was the leader of “the Stratford Operation”, a crack ring in the Bronx.

Daniel Deandrade was sentenced in US District Court in Manhattan.According to court documents, from 1999 through November 2006, Deandrade was the leader of “the Stratford Operation”, a crack ring in the Bronx.The gang distributed anywhere between 80 and 300 kilograms of crack over the course of its existence.
Cocaine was smuggled into the US from Columbia and Deandrade and others cooked it into cocaine in several apartments across the Bronx. The crack was then sold on Stratford and Westchester avenues in the Bronx by several individuals who worked for Deandrade.From 2001 through October 2003, he was also a crack supplier for a narcotics rink in Utica, “the Utica Operation,” that sold crack, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and marijuana.He provide that operation with between 10 and 20 kilograms of crack.