DAYTON, Ohio – Alandre J. Gilbreath, Jr., 34, of Springfield, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for possessing carfentanil. United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Benjamin C. Glassman, DEA Detroit Division Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Plancon, Springfield Police Chief Lee...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pharmacy chain CVS Pharmacy, Inc., has agreed to pay $535,000 to resolve the United States’ allegations that several of its Rhode Island stores violated the federal Controlled Substances Act by filling invalid prescriptions, announced DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United...

NEW ORLEANS – The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that New Orleans and the surrounding parishes of Jefferson and St. Bernard will be the 16th pilot city to be part of a comprehensive law enforcement and prevention “360 Strategy,” designed to help cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that that Shannon Lambert, 33, of Canandaigua, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with obtaining controlled substances by fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of...

FRESNO, Calif . – Haitham Eid Habash, aka Eddie Habash, 55, of Hawthorne, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for his role in supplying synthetic drugs to wholesale internet drug traffickers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and DEA Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sophann Pin was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and DEA Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila. Pin...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, the seventh and final defendant was sentenced in connection with a bribery conspiracy to smuggle narcotics and other contraband into New York City prisons. Carl Noel, a former correction officer employed by the New York City Department of Correction, was...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Chris Minarcin, 34, formerly of Manchester, N.H., was sentenced to serve 76 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine and possessing over 500 grams of cocaine...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Providence man who conspired with the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy that imported hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl and cocaine from the Dominican Republic and distributed them in Rhode Island and Massachusetts has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison, announced DEA New England...

SAN FRANCISCO – Brian Gutierrez-Villasenor was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and transporting funds to promote unlawful activity announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent...