GREENBELT, Md. – Gerdandino Delgado-Escobar, a/k/a “Pumba,” age 24, of Hyattsville, Md., a member of La Mara Salvatrucha (“MS-13”), sentenced to 51 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion. The sentence was announced by Special Agent in...

GREENBELT, Md. – Today, Jose Augustin Salmeron-Larios (a/k/a Joseph Morales-Martinez, Angel Salvador Gutierrez, Yankee, and Kean), age 26, of Severn, Md., was sentenced to 260 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha...

NEW YORK CITY – Raymond P. Donovan, special agent in charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the Dominican Republic’s former Consul General to Jamaica, Jeremias Jimenez Cruz, and...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Two Alexandria men, Jose Castro and Martin Vitela, were sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for distribution of heroin and pure methamphetamine. According to court documents, Jose Castro, 23, and Martin Vitela, 25, assisted co-conspirator Fabian Rodriguez Sandoval in the transportation and distribution...

BALTIMORE – On Sept. 5, 2019, Delroy Williams, Jr., 32, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today Pablo Rentas-Torres, 35, and Jesus Fernandez, 25, both of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to conspiracy to possess with intent...

GREENBELT, Md. – Today, Coron Demon Johnson, aka Savage, 25, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin. Johnson admitted that an individual died as a result of using heroin that he distributed. According to his...

NEW YORK – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett and Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced the alleged seizure of...

NEW YORK – New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced the sentencing of supervising pharmacist Victor Laperla for receiving cash payments in exchange for knowingly filling forged prescriptions for oxycodone 30 mg painkillers and illegally selling...

NEW YORK – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan, Superintendent of the New York State Police Keith M. Corlett, Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill and Homeland Security Investigations New...