CLEVELAND, Ohio - Law enforcement officials announced today that a Cleveland man was indicted in federal court on charges that he sold heroin that caused at least two overdoses in Wooster, Ohio. Demetrius L. Frizzell, 30, was indicted on six counts: two counts of distribution of heroin, one count of...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On February 7 Barry Moore, 40, of Greeneville, Tennessee was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 210 months in federal prison following a conviction for his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine base “crack” in...

DALLAS - Two defendants who pleaded guilty to their roles in a pill mill operation they were involved in during parts of 2013-2014 have been sentenced. U.S. Attorney John Parker announced that Taneisha Nickerson, 29, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced last week to 24 months in federal prison, following her...

FEB 28 - 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 Teddy Stuart Lopez, Jr., also known as “Chico” and “Junior,” 20, of Waterbury, was sentenced...

FEB 28 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jeannette Hardy, 26, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison based upon her conviction for...

FEB 28 - BOSTON - A New Bedford woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for stashing drugs in her home for a drug trafficking ring that operated in Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. Shirley Vargas, 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Jacob Ebel, age 29, of Niverville, New York, was arraigned today on charges that he distributed heroin and fentanyl that caused two overdose deaths in Columbia County in July 2016. The announcement was made by James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Division of the U.S...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced today...

FEB 27 - 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 Carlos Perez, also known as “Carlito,” 43, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District...

FEB 27 - 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, today announced that on February 24, 2017, Yacov Ocasio, also known as “Little,” 21, of Hartford, waived his right...