BOISE – Brandon Aaron Dana, 36, a co-conspirator in a large drug trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for distributing over 7,000 fentanyl pills in Idaho's Magic Valley. According to court records, in the summer of 2023, law enforcement officers identified Dana while investigating a...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Alfred Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Tywan Church, 43, of Fort Wayne, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading...

EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl, causing death. According to court documents, Michael Joseph Cuccaro, 22, sold counterfeit M-30 oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a purchaser on Dec. 11, 2022. The purchaser consumed the...

A Laurens County man has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges. Ricky Rich, 42, of East Dublin, Ga., was sentenced to 228 months in prison after pleading guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl, said Jill E. Steinberg, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Florissant, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for providing more than 34 kilograms of fentanyl to a large-scale drug-trafficking organization in southwest Missouri. Sheron L. Loggins, also known as “Bane,” 50, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison without parole. On Nov. 14...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Columbia, Mo., man was found guilty in federal court today of possessing fentanyl that he intended to distribute in Springfield, Mo. Michael E. Hunt, Jr., 43, was found guilty of one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute. Law enforcement officers learned that Hunt...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California has filed a series of federal criminal complaints charging three defendants with possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl in Santa Cruz County, announced United States Attorney Ismail Ramsey and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent...

SEATTLE, Wash. – A Bellingham, Washington woman who was a redistributor for a fentanyl distribution ring was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Natasha Parkhill, 38, of Bellingham pleaded guilty in March 2024 and was sentenced today to 4 years in prison. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PABEL MIGUEL ACOSTA-COLON, 36, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 22 months of...

MIAMI – On July 11, Keyon Lewis, 27, of Indian River County, Fla., was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison, to be followed by four (4) years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl resulting in death. U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in...