BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, following a three day trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Clyde Miller on charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of...

CHICAGO — Twenty individuals are facing criminal charges as part of joint federal and state investigations into drug and gun trafficking in Chicago. The dual investigations centered on drug sales in the city’s Little Village neighborhood and resulted in the seizures of 445 grams of heroin, 230 grams of cocaine...

Cape May Court House, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner, and Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae are announcing the conclusion of "Operation Forefathers," a large scale...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York...

BOSTON – A Norwood man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing heroin in the Taunton area. Oristel Soto-Peguero, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 22 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In April 2018, Soto-Peguero was convicted by a...

CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a California man to 35 years in prison for overseeing an international drug-trafficking organization that used Amtrak trains to ship heroin and cocaine to Chicago from Los Angeles. Edgar Roque, 32, of Paramount, Calif., was the leader of an extensive network of drug...

TUCSON, Ariz. – The DEA announced the sentencing of Omar Moreno-Miranda, 33, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, to 60 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Moreno-Miranda pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine earlier this year. The...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Darius Dix, 27, and Kurtis Washington, 27, both of Lockport, N.Y., who were convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine...

SAN DIEGO – Lahkwinder Singh was sentenced in federal court on Sept. 7, 2018, to 36 months in federal prison and a forfeiture of $1,955,521 to the United States for structuring approximately $2,955,521 in currency transactions with domestic financial institutions. The 36-month sentence is one of the longest imposed in...

TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito today announced a Union County, New Jersey man was sentenced to 121 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy...