BRIDGEPORT, CT – Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Monseratte Torres, 30, of New Jersey, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to...

LOS ANGELES - A high-level member of a global drug ring is in custody in Southern California after being extradited from Colombia last night on charges that he conspired to transport cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars from South America to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States...

BOSTON – A Norwood man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing heroin in the Taunton area. Oristel Soto-Peguero, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 22 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In April 2018, Soto-Peguero was convicted by a...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested 12 defendants on federal narcotics and fraud charges stemming from an investigation into the Puente 13 Street Gang. Those arrested last night and this morning are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a federal grand jury that allege...

LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jesus Rodriguez-Jimenez, 47, of Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison by United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest in Manhattan federal court. Rodriguez-Jimenez ran an international money laundering...

LOS ANGELES – Capping a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force, authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants named in a series of indictments that allege the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics from Mexico on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. Those arrested this morning are among 57 defendants...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Federal authorities this morning concluded a 2½-year wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization based in the Coachella Valley by arresting eight defendants linked to the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine. The eight people arrested today by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration are among...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Federal authorities this morning concluded a 2½-year wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization based in the Coachella Valley by arresting eight defendants linked to the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine. The eight people arrested today by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration are among...

LOS ANGELES - The so-called “Bitcoin Maven,” who admitted to operating an unlicensed bitcoin-for-cash exchange business and laundering bitcoin that was represented to be proceeds of narcotics activity, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $20,000...

(SANTA ANA, Calif.) - A man currently on both state parole and federal supervised release has been charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances for selling more than one pound of methamphetamine, as well as cocaine. Matthew Belling, 28, of La Mirada, who goes by the moniker “Miagi,” was arrested...