MADISON, Wis. – Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tom Lewis, 29, De Soto, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to three years in federal prison for using a telephone to facilitate the of distribution of methamphetamine...

BOSTON – The final tally is in from the 17 th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 27, 2019. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 89,366 pounds or over 44 tons of expired, unused...

BUFFALO, NY – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Osvaldo Rivera-Amaro, 46, of Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison by U.S...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Atlantic City man was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and...

PORTLAND, Ore.—In related criminal cases, Cole Williams Griffiths and Raleigh Dragon Lau pleaded guilty on April 22, 2019, for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Hood River, Oregon and Portland to Virginia, Texas, and Florida. Drug proceeds, in the form of bulk U.S. currency, were returned...

CHICAGO - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian M. McKnight and DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that felony drug charges have been filed against two Addison men accused of possessing approximately one kilogram of heroin. Luis Ortiz, 24 (d.o.b. 12/23/1994) of 505 Stevens...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Mark T. Moore, 38, of Loudon, N.H., was sentenced in federal court to 50 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute, and possess with...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A total of six men are now in custody following the return of a 41-count indictment alleging a cocaine and marijuana trafficking conspiracy, conspiracy to commit money laundering and 39 substantive drug and money laundering violations announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R...

BOSTON – A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing methamphetamine from California to Massachusetts. Christopher Halfond, 37, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr., to 140 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release. In April 2018...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Santos Guerrero Morillo, 39, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for his leadership role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy. Documents filed...