United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LOS ANGELES - A former Transportation Security Administration employee who conspired to smuggle narcotics through screening checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced today to 80 months in prison. Naral Richardson, 32, of South Los Angeles, the facilitator of the scheme involving three TSA screeners at LAX, was sentenced...

LAS VEGAS - Former Las Vegas physician Vinay Bararia, 44, was sentenced today to 44 months in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully selling hydrocodone and oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent in a hospital parking lot, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District...

STAMFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Gary England, 42, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 stated that Ras Foster, 25, of Brooklyn, New York and Keisha Richards, 21, of Fair Haven, Vermont...

RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 stated that Sherry Flower, 48, of Rutland, Vermont has been charged in a three-count Indictment with one count...

LOS ANGELES - Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officials, including the DEA Los Angeles’s Field Division’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Southern California Drug Task Force, fanned out across the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles and executed dozens of search and arrest warrants linked to businesses suspected of using a...

CONCORD, N.H. - Robert Pineault, 39, of Manchester, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 60 months in prison in connection with offenses involving methamphetamine manufacture, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England...

BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nicholas McDonald - , 33, of Eddington, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock...

RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Terrence (a.k.a.“Stucky”), 31, of Rutland, Vermont...

LOS ANGELES - A Dutch national pleaded guilty late Tuesday to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges, admitting he conspired to run a secret, on-line narcotics marketplace known as the “The Farmer's Market” that sold controlled substances such as LSD, Ecstasy, and marijuana to thousands of customers around the...