Drug Dealer Receives 168 Months After Selling Fentanyl to Law Enforcement Over a Dozen Times

United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Dre’Shaun Burns, age 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on January 30, 2025, in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl as well as possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr.  sentenced Burns to 168 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After Burns’s release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.

Between April 2020 through June 2022, Burns sold fentanyl analogue to confidential informants over a dozen times.  On June 16, 2022, the investigation came to a head when law enforcement executed a search warrant of Burns’s mom’s residence in Omaha.  During the search, law enforcement recovered 371 grams of fentanyl analogue near two firearms.  Burns’s DNA was on this bag of drugs as well as the two firearms.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.