BANGOR, Maine - A Rochester, New York man was sentenced Oct. 2, 2019 in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base and fentanyl announced DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank. U.S. District Judge John A...

TAMPA, Fla. – Mario Marquez Roberson, age 28, of St. Petersburg was sentenced today to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for distribution of 4-flouroisobutyrl fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Roberson had pleaded guilty on April 2, 2019. According to court documents, Roberson engaged in six transactions with an...

BROOKLYN, NY - Four individuals, including two doctors, a pharmacist who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and a pharmacy owner have been charged for their participation in schemes in which the Medicare and Medicaid programs were fraudulently billed more...

BOSTON – A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction. Angelo Pina, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 15 months in prison for violating the terms of...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with a 2017 fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Ernesto Rodriguez, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Rodriguez previously pleaded guilty to conspiring...

BANGOR, Maine – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Morang, a/k/a “DW,” 39, formerly of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to two years in prison and...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced an Atlantic City, New Jersey, woman was indicted today on charges including drug distribution that resulted in a death. Rajeri...

BOSTON – Thirty eight people have been charged with federal drug offenses, and at least a dozen more individuals face state charges, as part of a 10-week coordinated enforcement operation in the Merrimack Valley called “Devil’s Highway.” Authorities seized more than 14 kilograms of fentanyl, 29 kilograms of cocaine, four...

CONCORD, NH – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Anthony Cabrera, 27, of Lawrence, was sentenced to 60 months for distribution of fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, on March 12, 2019...

TAMPA, Fla. - Heidi Kalous, 39, of Dunedin was charged by indictment today, with conspiring to distribute a substance that contained a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing death. If convicted, Kalous faces a minimum mandatory...