SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Four men from Syracuse and one from New York City (the Bronx) have been charged with operating a heroin distribution ring from which investigators seized over 62,000 individual bags of heroin, totaling in excess of two kilograms, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ray Donovan...

HARTFORD, CT – Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Orlando Quiros, also known as “O” and “Gordo, 42, formerly of New Britain and Suffield, was sentenced today by U.S...

BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester on federal methamphetamine charges. Adam Germano, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 15 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay forfeiture of $73,343. On Oct. 5...

BOSTON – A Whitinsville woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to her role in a conspiracy to distribute the amphetamine Adderall. Meghan Giacomuzzi, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute Adderall and six counts of distributing and...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Alex Alberto Castro received 42 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018. He was the lead defendant of a 20-plus defendant drug trial. Chief United States District...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Earlier today, following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Humberto Baez for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, in connection with his participation in a scheme responsible for smuggling 16 kilograms of...

DENVER – John Bruce Fifield, age 47, of Sedalia, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of distributing methamphetamine and marijuana to students at Woodland Park Middle School, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge William McDermott announced. Fifield made...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, and U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Northern District of New York announced that Ronny Mota, age 29, of Bronx, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that Bruno J. Haney, II, 29, Marissa L. DeCarlo, 26, and James O. White, 27, all of Lockport, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint...

OMAHA, Neb. –The February 12 conviction of Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman-Lorea serves as a reminder of the effect his organization has had on the five states that make up the Drug Enforcement Administration Omaha Division. Countless illicit drugs have made their way into local communities in...