MILFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILSON GUZMAN, JR., 40, of Milford, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford 36 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for distributing various drugs on...

NEW BERN, N.C. – Christian Ricardo Arce-Cazares, a 36-year-old resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, illegally present in the United States has been sentenced to 150 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and aiding and abetting the distribution of...

SEATTLE– A 46-year-old Pierce County man was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for his repeated drug trafficking and firearms possession. Ryan James Townsend was indicted in November 2023, after two encounters with law enforcement. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YOAN MANUAL DELACRUZ, also known as “Oreja,” 33, citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 108 months...

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHYTE, also known as “Jak Mac,” 50, of New London, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 195 months of imprisonment, followed by five years...

WATERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DUPREY, also known as “Red” and “Colorado,” 53, of Waterbury, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 141 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – James Brewer, 36, of Columbia was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of fentanyl. Evidence presented to the court showed that on April 22, 2022, Brewer and the victim, R.B., discussed the exchange of drugs and that Brewer sent R.B. a...

BEAUMONT, Texas – An Orange, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux of the Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs. Lawrence Duguett Hardin, Jr., 38, pleaded guilty...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Denver, Colorado, man was sentenced in federal court today for transporting thousands of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine through Kansas City, Mo., aboard a bus and for illegally possessing a firearm. Ahmad Rashad Rhodes, 45, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Rhodes...

WICHITA, Kan. – A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging a Texas man with charges related to drug trafficking. According to court documents, Mario Guerrero, Jr, 33, of Houston is charged with one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and one count of possession...