CONCORD, N.H. – A California man was sentenced today in federal court for trafficking methamphetamine in California and New Hampshire, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Robert Perez, Jr., 33, formerly of Perris, California was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to 10 years in prison and...

BOSTON – A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute kilograms of fentanyl bound for Massachusetts from California. Ricardo Peinado Rivera, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper scheduled sentencing...

WATERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that RAMON OQUENDO, also known as “Mimo,” 46, of Waterbury, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Providence man is scheduled to be sentenced in August after admitting to a federal court judge that, in November 2021, he took possession of a package that contained more than a half kilogram of cocaine that was mailed from Puerto Rico and was addressed for delivery...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Providence woman today admitted to a federal judge that she participated in a drug trafficking conspiracy and was paid by co-conspirators to accept and store multiple shipments of fentanyl and cocaine shipped through the United Parcel Service and Federal Express, announced United States Attorney Zachary A...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Frank Parasmo, a former medical doctor, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack to 36 months in prison for his conviction on 32 counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription painkiller, to 18 patients...

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vicente Esteves, a/k/a “El Bori,” was sentenced to 222 months in prison for being a supervisor in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at least 150 kilograms of cocaine, which Esteves and his...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK –Harry Rodriguez, Jr, 43, of Rome, New York, pled guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in...

BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced on May 17, 2023 for distributing fentanyl and methamphetamine. Johanny Torres-Rojas, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In December 2022, Torres-Rojas pleaded guilty to two counts of...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEISSON AMARANTE-PEREZ, 30, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 45 months of imprisonment for trafficking fentanyl and heroin. According to court documents and...