Waterbury’s “Tigger” Sentenced For Firearms & Carjacking Crimes

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 7:00 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

HARTFORD, CT.- On Monday, a 19-year-old Waterbury, Connecticut, man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for stealing 21 guns from a Connecticut pawn shop and two gunpoint carjackings that occurred early last year in Stamford, Connecticut.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Monday, September 15, 2025, Tyssan Woods, also known as “Tigger,” 19, of Waterbury, Connecticut, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Michael P. Shea to 120 months in federal prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to federal firearms and carjacking offenses.

     Woods has remained in custody since his March 28, 2024, arrest. On June 20, 2025, Woods appeared in Federal Court in Hartford, Connecticut, and pleaded guilty to one count of Theft of Firearms From a Licensee; two counts of Carjacking; and one count of Using a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.

According To Court Documents

     According to documents and statements made in the District Court, during the early morning hours of March 15, 2024, Woods, Edurado Cruz, and other unnamed individuals drove a car into the entryway doors of Statewide Pawn Shop, a federally licensed firearms dealer in Salem, Connecticut, and stole 21 firearms from the store. 

     Later in the day, on March 15, 2024, an undercover law enforcement Investigator made a controlled purchase of three of the stolen firearms from Cruz and a juvenile in Waterbury, Connecticut. On March 18, 2024, Investigators purchased another of the stolen firearms from Cruz, who arrived at the meeting location with two juveniles. Cruz was taken into custody at that time, and law enforcement Investigators recovered two additional stolen firearms, one that was being carried by one of the juveniles, and one from inside Cruz’s vehicle.

     On March 28, 2024, Woods committed two armed carjackings in Stamford, Connecticut. Later that day, members of the Connecticut State Police found Woods seated in the driver’s seat in one of the stolen vehicles and placed him under arrest. Investigators were also able to recover the other stolen motor vehicle in Waterbury, Connecticut. A subsequent search of Woods’ residence uncovered an additional two of the stolen firearms. Thirteen of the stolen firearms still remain missing.

     U.S. Attorney Sullivan commended the investigative work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Connecticut State Police, and the Waterbury, Stamford, and Wolcott Police Departments, which led to the successful prosecution of Woods.