(STRATFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Mark Leigh-James, also known as “Rich,” 23, of Stratford, has been indicted on narcotics trafficking and firearm possession offenses. This...

BOSTON - A nurse pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing pain medication from patients in a nursing care facility in Worcester. Joanna Dacri, 34, of Auburn, Mass., pleaded guilty to one count of acquiring and obtaining Oxycodone by deception. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Phillip Coyne Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Tony Torrez, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., has been charged with violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws in a criminal complaint filed by the DEA this afternoon. Torrez, who is currently in state custody on unrelated charges, will be transferred to federal custody to answer to...

WATERBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that on October 28, 2015, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned a four-count indictment charging Hugo Tejeda -...

BOSTON - A leader of a Lawrence heroin trafficking organization that operated in Massachusetts and New York was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison. Ygoa Almonte-Baez, 48, of Dorchester, Mass., and the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 13 years in...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Miguel Colon, 55, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of trafficking heroin and cocaine, and to carrying a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. Colon was arrested in April 2015 by federal, state and local law enforcement upon his return...

BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing. Nicholas Ferraro, 25, of Natick, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count...

DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deidre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a three-count indictment charging Alex Garcia, 37, of Danbury...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dennis Bernard, 29, of Cranston, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to trafficking heroin and crack cocaine, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Cranston Police Chief Colonel...