BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling more than 20 kilograms of cocaine into central Massachusetts. Japhet Garcia, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to three and a...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Eight people have been charged in a 13-count federal indictment in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought large amounts of narcotics from Atlanta for distribution in the Augusta area. The indictments stem from a two-year joint investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Richmond County Sheriff’s Office...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Oscar Orlando Navarro-Melendez, 31, a Honduran national residing in Asheville, N.C. to 135 months in prison and five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham, announced that Ramon Hernandez, 61, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of...

BOSTON – A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction. Angelo Pina, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 15 months in prison for violating the terms of...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with a 2017 fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Ernesto Rodriguez, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Rodriguez previously pleaded guilty to conspiring...

BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling over 20 kilograms of cocaine into central Massachusetts. Jose Gonzalez, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 10 years in prison...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Kristen Hodgkins, 30, of Rochester, was sentenced to serve 84 months in federal prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents and statements...

BANGOR, Maine – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Morang, a/k/a “DW,” 39, formerly of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to two years in prison and...

BOSTON – Thirty eight people have been charged with federal drug offenses, and at least a dozen more individuals face state charges, as part of a 10-week coordinated enforcement operation in the Merrimack Valley called “Devil’s Highway.” Authorities seized more than 14 kilograms of fentanyl, 29 kilograms of cocaine, four...