BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Bryon McClellan, 33, of Norwich, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 57 months...

TOPEKA, Kans. – For 10 days in March, the U.S. Marshals and Topeka Police, working with multiple federal, state and local law enforcement partners, conducted an operation designed to reduce violent crime and drug activity in and around Topeka, resulting in 258 arrests. Operation Frontier Justice was conducted in partnership...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Additional charges have been returned by a federal grand jury against an elected Missouri state representative for a nearly $900,000 COVID-19 fraud scheme, following her indictment last month for a separate fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a supposed stem cell treatment marketed through...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Sherod Tucker to 80 months in prison today. The 32-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl. Beginning in 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division and St. Louis...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Springfield, Missouri, woman has been sentenced in federal court for her role in leading a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of heroin in Greene County, Mo. Jasmine D. Steed, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough on Thursday, March 25, to 16 years...

BOSTON – Eight people were charged in federal court in Boston in connection with an investigation into a Boston-based fentanyl and cocaine trafficking and money laundering organization. According to charging documents, a year-long wiretap investigation revealed that the defendants, who were directly connected to a poly-drug trafficking organization operating in...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Springfield man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine. Richard G. Wacker, 61, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 20 years in federal prison without parole. On Jan. 10, 2020, Wacker...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Teran Martin to 120 months in prison today and ordered Martin to forfeit $23,488 and the several firearms law enforcement seized in the course of investigating the crimes charged. The 27-year-old Ferguson, Missouri, resident had previously pleaded guilty to one...

BANGOR, ME - A Caribou woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced...

BOSTON – A Dominican man previously residing in Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl. Cecilio Guzman, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to 29 months in prison. Guzman will face deportation proceedings upon completion...