CHARLOTTE, N.C. Jonathan Craig Otuel, 36, of Stallings, N.C., was sentenced today to 181 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine and related firearms offenses. According to court documents, evidence presented at Otuel’s trial, and witness testimony, on November 19, 2019, officers with the...

BOSTON – Member of a nationwide drug trafficking ring has been sentenced in federal court in Boston. Throughout the investigation over 160 pounds of pure methamphetamine, as well as an AK-47, a Glock with no serial number, two loaded Smith & Wesson handguns, and over 4,200 rounds of ammunition were...

MACON, Ga. – The supplier to an armed methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking organization who was providing kilogram quantities of narcotics out of her high-rise Atlanta condominium was sentenced today to serve 20 years in prison. Heather Marie Breland, 40, of Atlanta, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison to...

Gulfport, Mississippi – A former Biloxi City Councilman was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance. According to court documents and information presented to the court, in 2019, Robert Leon Deming, III, 47, founded the Candy Shop, LLC...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A federal jury convicted Lucio Camargo Garcia, an armed New Bern drug trafficker and leader in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for moving kilogram quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl in and around the Craven County area. Garcia, age 45, was convicted on one count of conspiracy...

FORT SMITH — On August 6, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ordered $180,886 in cash seized from three Nashville men to be forfeited to the United States, upholding a civil complaint by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The complaint, filed on Jan. 31, 2024, alleged...

MIAMI – On July 29, Jordan Curry, 42, an Australian national from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to launder money and import cocaine from South America through the United States to Australia. According to the agreed upon factual proffer, from 2019 to 2021...

MACON, Ga. – An Atlanta resident who was supplying large quantities of fentanyl and other controlled substances to distributors in Middle Georgia was sentenced to serve more than 28 years in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in a case where investigators found evidence of an individual who overdosed and...

BOSTON – A Lynn man was sentenced today in federal court for his role in a North Shore-based drug trafficking organization that distributed tens of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. Nelson Mora, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DONELL ALLICK, JR., also known as “D-Nice,” 25, of New Haven, has plead guilty before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to a racketeering offense related to his participation in a violent New Haven street gang and the murder of an individual in...