WATERBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Shaun James, 45, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Melvin James, Jr., a 43-year old resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today for possession with intent to distribute 98 grams of heroin and being a convicted felon-in-possession of...

New disposal rules now in effect provide for convenient, ongoing disposal opportunities for patients’ unwanted pharmaceuticals; law enforcement agencies may continue to hold take-back events WASHINGTON - On its ninth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on September 27, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and 4,076 of its national, tribal, and community...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, multiple indictments have been unsealed charging eight defendants in Texas, California, Arizona, and Alaska with conspiring to distribute large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine in Alaska and also working together to launder money from the United States into Mexico. The first indictment charges two men...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Clorenzo Griffen, 37, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Miami residents Andrew Jamison, 39, and Rodney Rackley, 24, charging them with robbery, drug conspiracy, and brandishing firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence and drug trafficking. All...

RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 stated that Joshua Rose, 21, of New York, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced David Wayne Nelson, 32, of Salisbury, Maryland, to 140 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The sentence was announced by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Gary...

SAN DIEGO - Fourteen alleged members of a cross-country drug trafficking organization are charged in a federal grand jury indictments with conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and ultra-dangerous fentanyl to locations throughout the United States. Early yesterday morning, a contingent of federal, state, and local law...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, James T. Hayes Jr., Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE)...

BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard A. Kincaid, III, - of Waterbury, Connecticut was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock...