FEB 01 - BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy that distributed cocaine, heroin and other narcotics throughout Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Luis Lopez aka Juan Gonzalez, 43, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, was sentenced...

WASHINGTON - DEA and the Southern District of New York today announced the arrival of four individuals from Kenya to New York charged with participating in a massive global drug trafficking enterprise, and includes the leader of a well-known organized crime family in Africa. BAKTASH AKASHA ABDALLA, a/k/a “Baktash Akasha,”...

JAN 31 - NEW HAVEN, 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 the investigation of two drug overdose deaths in May 2016 has resulted in federal...

JAN 31 - HARTFORD, 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 Todd Vernon, 42, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in...

JAN 31 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jose (61) of Manchester, was sentenced to serve eight years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute...

MONGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, pled guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance through operating a “pill mill” and money laundering scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. A “pill mill”...

JAN 27 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Bermudez, aka “Michael J. Morales,” 35, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl and trafficking cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United...

JAN 26 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Erick Delgado, 39, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that led to overdoses in April 2016. Michael J. Ferguson Special...

JAN 26 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Carlos Carrillo, 19, of Wethersfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of distribution of heroin. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M...

JAN 25 - HARTFORD, 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 Brittany Esposito, 28, of Wallingford, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford...