GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Ishmael Ford-Bey, age 40, of Mitchellville, Maryland, late yesterday to 33 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, using a phone to facilitate drug distribution, and money laundering. Judge...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a superseding indictment charging 11 individuals with...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Santiago Marino Reyes-Lara, a/k/a Jean Carlos Sotomayor-Venerio, 27, of Lawrence, Massachusetts pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession with the intent to distribute...

NORFOLK, Va. - German Alvarado Ponce, aka Herman Alvaniz, 37, of Chesapeake, Virginia, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison, followed by five of supervised release on a drug conspiracy charge. Ponce and five co-defendants were indicted Dec. 17, 2014, and have all pleaded guilty. According to court documents...

BOSTON - A California man was sentenced today for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in New England and laundering the drug proceeds in bank accounts. Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; and William P. Offord, Special...

BALTIMORE - A federal grand jury has returned three indictments charging a total of 16 individuals with drug conspiracy and other charges for operating purported pain management clinics that the indictments allege were actually “pill mills.” The indictments were returned on May 20, 2015, and unsealed late yesterday upon the...

GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang sentenced Christian Diamond Byrd, age 44, of Laurel, Maryland today to 15 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of heroin. Judge Chuang also ordered Byrd to forfeit $440,000, the proceeds of his drug distribution. The sentence...

(CONCORD, N.H. - Ryan Johnson, 32, of Epping, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and...

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Middletown Police Chief William McKenna today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment...

NORFOLK, Va. - Allen Andre Brown, 36, of Portsmouth, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Office; Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and Mark R. Herring, Attorney General of Virginia...