CHICAGO — A man has been sentenced to more than 26 years in federal prison for distributing drugs through a dark web marketplace known as the “Nemesis Market.” Darren Hughes operated a vendor store offering free samples of methamphetamine on the Nemesis Market, one of the world’s largest dark web...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.- David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEMUEL VEGA-GOMEZ, 26, of New Britain, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for trafficking cocaine. According to court...

MERIDEN, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL LUISI, 53, of Meriden, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for narcotics trafficking and firearm possession...

MANCHESTER, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE C. RIVERA, 37, of Manchester, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for narcotics trafficking and firearm possession...

Four defendants were arrested following a long-term investigation into a drug delivery service that operated out of a luxury apartment building in the Bronx, and distributed cocaine in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Approximately 10 kilograms of cocaine (over 22 pounds) carrying a street value of up to $250,000 were recovered...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont has announced Theodore Bland, 29, of Stowe, Vermont, pleaded guilty to federal firearm and drug charges, including causing the deaths of two men while carrying and using a firearm during and in relation to drug...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS GONZALEZ NAVA, 26, a citizen of Mexico unlawfully residing in the U.S., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to drug trafficking and firearm possession...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced charges against more than 25 individuals as part of a nationwide crackdown targeting the foreign terrorist organization (FTO), Tren de Aragua (TdA). Many of the defendants charged in this Homeland Security Task Force operation are illegal aliens from Venezuela, Colombia, and Honduras. TdA...

NEW YORK – Special Agent in Charge Christopher Roberts, DEA New York Task Force Division, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police announced today the arrests of four Ber gen County, New Jersey, residents for their roles in a...

CHICAGO — Federal law enforcement this month arrested an alleged drug trafficker and seized 22 firearms and multiple kilograms of narcotics from his Chicago storage unit. Mario Neustadter sold fentanyl and methamphetamine to an undercover law enforcement officer in Chicago on three occasions in January of February of this year...