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, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver in Hartford to 150 months of imprisonment and eight years of supervised release for...

CONCORD, N.H. – Daris Rafael Melo Vittini, age 40, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced in federal court to 18 months of imprisonment followed by 1 year of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. According to court...

CONCORD, N.H. – Alexander German, 28, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced 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. German was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty to 38 months in federal prison...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Manchester resident has been sentenced in federal court for distributing over 3.7 kilograms of fentanyl and possessing with intent to distribute 1.2 kilograms of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Xavier Santana, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul J. Barbadoro to 120 months in...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court to a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Roberto Ramon-Avalo, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, specifically methamphetamine and fentanyl. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Samantha D. Elliott scheduled Avalo’s sentencing...

ANSONIA, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSUE MUNIZ, 35, of Ansonia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl and cocaine. According to...

WEST HAVEN, 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 ALTON SMALL, also known as “Poodah,” “Tiemare,” and “Tie,” 31, of West Haven, waived his right to be...

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 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...

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...