A convicted drug dealer was arrested early yesterday and charged with the murder of a suspected organized-crime figure who was found shot to death on a Brooklyn street Monday, the police said.

The suspect, Tito Ortiz, 46 years old, of 105-29 75th Street in Ozone Park, Queens, was charged with killing Francis James Burke, 26, investigators said.

Mr. Burke was a son of James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke, who has been identified as an organized-crime associate and as the suspected mastermind of the unsolved $5.8 million Lufthansa robbery of 1978. The younger Mr, Burke has been identified by law-enforcement authorities as an associate of the Gambino organized-crime family .