BOSTON - A Framingham man was charged in federal court in connection to crimes committed while in his official capacity as a Watertown police officer. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sixteen federal, state and local Rhode Island law enforcement agents and officers, and a federal prosecutor from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, were recognized today with a top Department of Justice award for their achievements significantly impacting the trafficking of heroin...

BOSTON - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Carmen Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced a criminal complaint was unsealed today charging two men, from Bourne and New Bedford, with federal narcotics trafficking. The complaint resulted...

HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Miguel Alamo, 36, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in...

BANGOR, MAINE - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Mark Razo, 23, of El Monte, California, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine; and of...

RUTLAND Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that yesterday, Kevin Dodge, 45, of Island Pond, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment for conspiracy...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The leader of a drug trafficking organization based in the Inland Empire was sentenced today to 168 months of imprisonment by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips. Salvador Gonzalez-Chavez, 32, Fontana, was convicted last September of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, heroin...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced Andrew Rios, 41, of California, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to 188 months...

FEB 01 - ( NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Joseph Jackson, also known as “Mighty” and “M.I.,” 37, of New Haven, pleaded...

CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and John P. Kacavas, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire announced that Manuel Trinidad-Acosta, 29, of New York City, and Ed Cogswell, 47, of Bangor, Maine, were convicted in...