CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Field Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Nicholas Messina, 28, of Haverhill, Mass, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and possessing controlled substances...

ATLANTA - Francisco Castaneda Rivera has been sentenced to federal prison for transporting 4.24 kilograms of heroin, hidden inside a car battery, from Texas to the Atlanta-area. Robert J. Murphy, special agent in charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division said, “Drug traffickers like Castaneda Rivera often take extreme measures...

Rome, Ga. – Atlanta-area doctor Victor Hanson and former professional football player Sedrick Hodge have been indicted with two other individuals for illegal distribution of prescription drugs, including opioids. “Americans rely on healthcare providers, many of them medical doctors, to use their training to help patients and to ‘do no...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Terrell Givens, 34, of Beacon Falls, Conn., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 55...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Katie Fysh, 33, of Groveton, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents and statements made in court...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing to reduce the amount of five Schedule II opioid controlled substances that can be manufactured in the United States next year compared with 2019, per the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking being published in the Federal Register tomorrow and available for public...

HOUSTON – A federal jury sitting in Houston has convicted a 34-year-old man for conspiracy and methamphetamine smuggling, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division Special Agent in Charge William Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours following a three-day trial before convicting...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Saul E. Pacheco, 37, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced Sept. 30, 2019 to 60 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiring with another person to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in Columbia County. The announcement was...

NEW YORK – Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor, Queens Acting District Attorney John M. Ryan, Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York City Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven...

HARRISONBURG, Va., – Iza Mar Rosario-Cruzado, 31, of Harrisonburg, Va., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Rosario-Cruzado further admitted her distribution of this drug mixture resulted in an overdose death. “This...