United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Casey Kershaw, 27, of Danbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Richard Spriggs, Sr., 47, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to commit money laundering and unlawful possession of a firearm. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan...

DETROIT - United States Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states will be meeting in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region. The effort was announced jointly by United States Attorneys Barbara L...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Alkis (“Nakos”), age 36, was convicted by a federal jury of operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ernest Oprecht, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 54...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men involved in gang-related narcotics trafficking in Hartford were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Joseph Jackson, aka “Jo Jo,” the lead defendant of a nine defendant heroin distribution conspiracy centered in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. All nine defendants have been charged, convicted and sentenced in the Federal...

BOSTON - Five individuals were charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with distributing oxycodone throughout the North Shore. Joseph Romano, 38, of Peabody; Anthony Panarese, 35 of Peabody; Paul Williams, 51, of Malden; David Turner, Sr., 55, of Peabody; and Ashley Turner, 26, of Peabody, where arrested this morning...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, on August 17, 2015, Matthew Farkas, 42, of Montreal, Canada, was sentenced to 37 months in federal...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Providence men charged by way of federal criminal complaints appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence today in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation into an alleged large scale indoor marijuana growing operation inside a converted mill building at 725 Branch Avenue in Providence and inside...