Burbridge
GOSHEN – A Port Jervis man was sentenced in Orange County Court on Monday to 13 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision in connection with his April 1, 2016 possession of a loaded .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol.
Richard Burbridge, 46, pled guilty on January 3 of this year, to criminal possession of a loaded pistol inside his residence and that he had a previous criminal conviction.
Burbridge, who was released on bail, had been offered a four-year prison sentence. But after he pled guilty to the gun possession charge, he was arrested on March 3 by Port Jervis City Police on 16 drug charges. He is currently being held in the Orange County Jail.
The District Attorney’s Office will present the drug sales cases to a grand jury. If convicted of all of the narcotics sales, Butbridge faces another 84 years in prison.
Burbridge “simply refused to stop trafficking narcotics, even after he had pleaded guilty to a felony,” said District Attorney David Hoovler. “The community will be safer during the 13 years he is in state prison.”
