WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills, many containing deadly amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds, have made their way into the U.S. drug market, according to a DEA intelligence report released today. Law enforcement nationwide report higher fentanyl availability, seizures, and known overdose deaths than at any...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old resident of Mission has been ordered to prison for 120 months following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Manuel Ochoa pleaded guilty...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced federal criminal charges against eight individuals accused of making six different residences on a three-block stretch of...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced federal criminal charges against Peggy Marcelino, 55, and William St. George, 57, both from Burlington. Marcelino is...

HARTFORD, Conn. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Hector Roman, 30, of New Britain, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...

BANGOR, Maine - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kliton Xhemali, - 33, of Bangor was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock to 18 months imprisonment and a...

EUGENE, Ore. - Nicholas Jacobson and his twin brother Matthew Jacobson, 30, of Jackson County Oregon, were sentenced to prison on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken for conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Nicholas Jacobson was sentenced to 97 months in prison...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Domingo (a.k.a. Junior), 28, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on July 20, 2016, to a life term in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of murder in connection with a drug-trafficking conspiracy. Senior United States District Judge W. Fremming Nielsen also imposed two 30-year terms...

HARTFORD, Conn. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Natali Martinez, 30, formerly of West Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Joshua Stegemann, age 39, of Stephentown, New York, was sentenced today to serve 30 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, (i) possessing cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone with the intent to distribute; (ii) possessing two handguns in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; (iii)...