LOS ANGELES - The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with nearly 4,000 law enforcement partners across the country, will host the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At nearly 4,000 collection sites throughout the United States, DEA’s National Prescription...

BOSTON – An Allston man has plead guilty in federal court in Boston to trafficking methamphetamine and 1,4-Butanediol (BDO), an analogue of Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) – more commonly known as the “date rape drug” – out of his Allston home. Peter Schiepers, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Dominican man has pleaded guilty in federal court to immigration and drug offenses, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Robely Eladio De Jesus Guerrero, 37, a Dominican national unlawfully residing in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court in Concord to one count of unlawful reentry of a...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARTIN ONOFRE-MENDEZ, 50, a citizen of Mexico last residing in New Haven, has pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to a cocaine trafficking offense. According to court documents and statements made in...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on September 17, 2025, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging James Brown, 43, of Troy, New York, and Lionell Thompson, 40, of Manning, South Carolina, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and...

BOSTON – A Dominican national residing in the Bronx, N.Y., has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in operating a fentanyl distribution hub in the Bronx that sent fentanyl laced with xylazine, a horse tranquilizer, throughout Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. Jairo Collazo, 36, was sentenced...

HARTFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN FLYTHE, also known as “T,” 33, of Hartford, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for...

LOS ANGELES – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division today announced that a federal grand jury has returned a six-count indictment charging two Oxnard men and a Mexican national with being large-scale cocaine and methamphetamine distributors operating in Ventura County who are linked to the Mexico-based Sinaloa...

LOS ANGELES – The Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of State, today announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment and a $5 million reward offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Sinaloa Cartel-linked drug trafficker Juan José Ponce...

BOSTON – Two Massachusetts men have pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to their roles in a conspiracy involving the distribution and manufacturing of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and other controlled substances. Elmidio Crisostomo, 30, of Lynnfield and David Depena, 32, of Lynn, pleaded guilty to one count each...