CONCORD, N.H. – Eddy Balbuena-Gomez, age 32, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, plead guilty in federal court to a one-count Superseding Indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, namely, fentanyl and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Balbuena-Gomez is scheduled to...

BOSTON – A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Dorchester, Massachusetts has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Anderson Ernesto Andujar Echavarria, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to five years in prison, to be followed by...

BOSTON – A Lawrence, Massachusetts man has been sentenced for operating a clandestine drug laboratory that manufactured thousands of fentanyl and methamphetamine pills and for possessing firearms that furthered his drug trafficking operation. The defendant fled the United States shortly before his trial. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, 38, was sentenced by...

CONCORD, N.H. – Michael Savard, 40, of Colebrook, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in a case brought by New Hampshire’s Homeland Security Task Force, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Savard was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty to 80 months in federal prison...

STAMFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAR PARRA, also known as “D” and “Dee,” 39, of Stamford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 100 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for...

CONCORD, N.H. – Tabitha O’Brien, age 46, of Rochester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. According to court documents and statements, in early 2024, law enforcement began investigating a drug-trafficking organization (DTO) based in Massachusetts...

BOSTON – A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Dorchester, Mass. was sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills. Waner Bernabel Presinal, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to five years in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release...

STAMFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AMONDA MENDEZ, also known as “M-Dot” and “Dot,” 35, of Stamford, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to a narcotics trafficking offense and admitted that she violated the conditions of her supervised release...

HARTFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ONIEL ACOSTA-REYES, 27, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment and two years of supervised release...

HARTFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that CHANEL AYBAR-PENA, 31, a citizen of the Dominican Republic unlawfully present in the U.S., pleaded guilty before U.S. District...