HOUSTON - A total of 14 people are now in custody on methamphetamine charges in three separate cases, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. These arrests were part of Operation Dream Catcher which also led to the apprehension...

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 Amanda Gambardella, 26, formerly of Hartford and Cheshire, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in...

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 Preston Brown, Sr., 51, of Woodland, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 36 months...

CONCORD, N.H. - Crystal Watson, 35, of Barrington, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and to five charges relating to distribution of heroin, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in...

CONCORD, N.H. - Bicky Zapata-Nivar, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to conspiring to distribute the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug...

NEW HAVEN, 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 investigations into recent drug overdose deaths have resulted in federal heroin distribution charges against two men. In...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, announced today Stephen K. Howard, 64, of Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison for possessing with the...

BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that seven individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas. On Feb. 24, 2016, a combined...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Samin Chang, 38, of New York, NY, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, today on charges that he allegedly participated in a conspiracy to house numerous sophisticated indoor marijuana grow operations inside a converted Providence mill building and a Providence residence. In August 2015...

BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $25,000 civil settlement with Dr. Richard Bravman, Dr. John Langston, and their Cape Cod dental practice, Bravman, Langston, and Associates, LLC in connection with the practice’s flawed recordkeeping of controlled substances. According to court documents, the practice allegedly failed to conduct required...