United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced thatMarco Gordon, 34, of Portland and Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more...

HOUSTON - A total of six people have been taken into custody on allegations related to a cocaine conspiracy dating back to April 2011, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA). The charges are the result of a...

BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Worcester for selling heroin to a cooperating witness and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Miguel Rivera, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to seven years in prison and...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Santana Guilermo, 33, of Cranston, R.I., Carlos Ramos Rosa, 37, and Felix Fuentes Perez, 35, of Boston, Mass., pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to operating a heroin mill & stash house in West Warwick, R.I., where they cut and packaged for sale large...

HOUSTON - Larry Maurice Favorite, 33, and Juanita Eva Velasquez, 63, both of Houston, have been ordered to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute nearly nine kilograms of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and conspiracy to do the same, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit...

BEAUMONT, Texas - Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations...

WACO, Texas - A federal district judge sentenced five Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jameel Wilkes, also known as “Biggs,” 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced Leonardo Almonte-Ramirez, 31, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 33 months in prison for distributing...

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old federal inmate has been sentenced for receiving contraband in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Sultan Adnan Al-Bizri, of Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty on Mar. 11...