ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal jury convicted an Alexandria man yesterday on charges of conspiracy, possession, and distribution of fentanyl and Eutylone, and being a felon in possession of a firearm during drug trafficking. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, from in or around June 2020, through...

NORFOLK, Va. – A Portsmouth man, who was the 25th defendant associated with Operation High Tide, was sentenced today for his role in trafficking firearms and selling heroin. According to court documents, in 2017, Shon E. Melton, 32, of Portsmouth, was attributed with trafficking 19 firearms, including a concealable short...

ORLANDO, Fla . –Bolivar Anibal Cordova, Jr. (42, Windermere) and Luis Manuel Cordero (40, Orlando) were sentenced to 12 years and 7 months and 8 years and 6 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin. Cordova and Cordero had pleaded guilty in...

BOSTON – A Dominican national residing in Boston was indicted by a federal grand jury today on three drug-trafficking charges involving fentanyl. Luis Sonier Bautista Moreta, 25, was indicted on two counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and one count of...

TAMPA , Fla . –United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovante Raschod Thomas, a/k/a “Wood,” a/k/a “Tae” (40, Pinellas Park), Troy Lydell Mctier Jr. (29, St. Petersburg), Adrian Fulton Ashby, (50, St. Petersburg) Marquesha Dequaila Leseon Isaac a/k/a “Auntie,” a/k/a “Angie” (36, St...

TAMPA , Fla . – On January 11, 2022, U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Derrick Hutchins (36, Tampa) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Hutchins had pleaded guilty on October 13, 2021. According to court documents, on April 26...

Boston – A New York man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl. Ruben Davila Cardenas, 43, of Sunnyside, N.Y., was indicted on one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more fentanyl. According to the charging documents...

SAN FRANCISCO – Leanna Zamora, was sentenced today to 77 months in prison for distribution of fentanyl and her role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent In Charge Wade R. Shannon. The sentence, handed down today by...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a citizen of the Dominican Republic was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for her role in a...

BOSTON – A Methuen man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to selling a fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl mixture to an undercover agent on five occasions. Andi Guerrero-Lara, a/k/a “Manny Sierra,” 24, pleaded guilty to a seven count superseding indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to...