BOSTON – A Brockton man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to two separately charged cases involving the distribution of kilograms of fentanyl and, in one case, cocaine. Elijah Melton, 28, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2026 in United States v. Elijah Melton et al., Cr. No. 22-10356-LTS...

CONCORD, N.H. – Two Massachusetts men were indicted for drug offenses, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Francis Miguel Rodriguez, 27, and Roberto Ramon-Avalo, 26, were charged by indictment on March 18, 2026. Rodriguez was charged with one count of possessing methamphetamine and fentanyl with the intent to distribute it and...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Dominican man has pleaded guilty in federal court to immigration and drug offenses, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Joel Castillo-Soto, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, specifically methamphetamine, and one count of reentry after deportation. U.S. District Court Chief...

New York - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) New York Enforcement Division, Farhana Islam, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Dominican man was sentenced today in federal court for illegally reentering the United States and drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Robely Eladio De Jesus Guerrero, 38, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Landya B. McCafferty to 125...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Boston man has been sentenced in federal court in Concord for his key role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine in New Hampshire, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Flemin Soto Baez, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Samantha Elliott...

BOSTON – An associate of the violent Boston-based gang, H-Block, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to drug conspiracy charges. Mark Linnehan, 26, of West Roxbury, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin scheduled sentencing...

Baltimore, Md. – Today, State’s Attorney Ivan J. Bates announced the takedown of three Drug Trafficking Organizations operating in the West Baltimore area. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at trial. “The concentration of Drug Trafficking Organizations in the Penn North Area is...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MODESTE ADODO, 29, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for trafficking narcotics. According to court documents and...

HARTFORD, 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, has announced that REYMON ROJAS, also known as Reymond Rojas, 40, of Hartford, has been charged in a five-count indictment with...