FAYETTEVILLE – A previously convicted drug trafficker was sentenced on October 7, 2026, to 270 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole to be followed by 10 years of supervised release after being convicted of Distributing More Than Fifty (50) Grams of Methamphetamine in violation of federal law...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The two men responsible for distributing fentanyl to an individual who later died will now spend decades in federal prison. Today, Erick Williams, 49, of Pine Bluff, was sentenced to 240 months, or 20 years, in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Earlier, Cortell...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ong Thao, 37, of Lodi, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to eight years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge...

BOSTON – A Pittsfield pharmacist pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to diverting Adderall and Dextroamp-amphetamin (generic Adderall) from a national pharmacy chain. Joshua Bradley, 30, of Pittsfield, pleaded guilty to five counts of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, deception and subterfuge. U.S. Senior District Court Judge William...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that on September 18, 2026, a federal jury in New Haven found RYAN FIELDS, 52, of Port Neches, Texas, guilty of federal offenses related to illegally selling misbranded and unapproved prescription drugs. According to...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Parampreet Singh, 60, of Davis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $2 million for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, opium, and ketamine, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant and Drug Enforcement...

NEW ORLEANS – A recently unsealed superseding indictment charged three men, HECTOR MARQUEZ MARQUEZ (“MARQUEZ”), age 22, a resident of the Republic of Mexico, TONTA OCTAVE (“OCTAVE”), age 48, of Vacherie, Louisiana, and LAMONT WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS”), age 50, of New Orleans, with conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A Hot Springs man was sentenced on October 1, 2026, to more than 14 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, for Possession with the Intent to Distribute of More Than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine. The Honorable District Judge John Thomas Shepherd...

MILWAUKEE -- U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced Jerry Jones III, 69, a former emergency room physician from Mequon, Wisconsin, to 27 months’ imprisonment on Oct. 1, 2026, announced Brad D. Schimel, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. On June 29, 2026, Jones pleaded guilty...

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, announced the conviction at trial today...