RUTLAND, Vt. – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on May 29, 2024 , Jashier Gillespie, 22, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to a term of 24 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a seven-count indictment charging MARKEYSE...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Fraily Rodriguez Morillo, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 46 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release...

CONCORD, N.H. – Five Rochester residents pleaded guilty this week in federal court to drug offenses, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. The following defendants pleaded guilty to drug offenses: Monty Granger, age 43, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and three counts...

BOSTON – A Boston-area man has pleaded to his role in Cameron Street, a violent Boston gang. Devante Lopes, a/k/a “D-Lopes,” 30, of Boston and Quincy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise (more commonly referred to as RICO or racketeering conspiracy); conspiracy to distribute marijuana; and...

BURLINGTON, Vt.– The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on May 30, 2024, George Goins, 66, of Johnson, Vermont, was sentenced by United States District Judge William K. Sessions III to a term of 57 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 3-year term of...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Fredis Manuel Guerrero Guzman, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 21 months in prison to be followed by two years of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.– A Windsor, CT, resident who admitted to a federal judge in Rhode Island that he conspired to deliver nearly 90 grams of fentanyl has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Daniel Alexander Smith, 20, previously admitted that between late...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Mexican national has been sentenced in federal court after more than 88 pounds of methamphetamine was found in the trunk of a car in which he was traveling on Interstate 70. Juan Emilio Gomez-Padilla, 32, who was residing in Chicago, was sentenced by U.S. Chief...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Victor Berroa Mercedes, 31, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and one count of possession...