CONCORD, N.H. – Matthew Schnell, 45, of Bellingham, Massachusetts was sentenced in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe to 71 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release for trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Schnell pleaded guilty in May 2025 to one...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl was sentenced today to more than nineteen years in federal prison. Joshua James Cannady, age 51, from Landers, California, received the prison term after a February 19, 2026, jury verdict finding him guilty of conspiracy to distribute...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Field Division, Towanda R. Thorne-James, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Robert Frazier, announced two men, including a Mexican national, were arraigned after being indicted for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy...

SAN FRANCISCO- In June, DEA San Francisco Field Division and detectives with Marin County Sheriff’s Department Specialized Investigative Unit (SIU), began a narcotics investigation into Ian Howerton, 31, of San Francisco. During the investigation, undercover detectives conducted controlled purchases which included the sale of Cocaine and Ketamine from Howerton in...

PORTLAND, Ore.—Hugo Alberto Roman Aparicio, 42, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for a gun trafficking conspiracy. All guns were seized and forfeited. According to court documents, Roman Aparicio and others, conspired to smuggle guns from Portland to Mexico. They hid 12 firearms...

SEATTLE– The 32-year-old leader of a drug trafficking organization that preyed, in part, on those living unhoused in “The Jungle” and in the Seattle Chinatown International District was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to eight years in prison. Daniel Ibarra Loera, an illegal alien, living in Kent...

TORRINGTON, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL CABASSA, 48, of Torrington, plead guilty before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to a narcotics trafficking offense and also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Goffstown man has been sentenced to 102 months in prison and four years of supervised release for firearm and narcotics charges, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Mark Williams, 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante today. According to the charging documents and statements made...

NEW 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 FELIX JIMENEZ, 38, a citizen of the Dominican Republic unlawfully residing in the U.S., pleaded guilty in New...

CONCORD, N,H. – A Boston man has been sentenced in federal court for distribution of methamphetamine and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Jeison Eulogio Dume-Calderone, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Samantha D. Elliott to 70 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release. Dume-Calderone...