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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A San Diego man was sentenced in federal court today for shipping large quantities of methamphetamine to southwest Missouri. Francisco A. Magallon, also known as “Pancho,” 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 21 years and eight months in federal prison without parole. On...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Four Oklahoma men were indicted by a federal grand jury today after law enforcement officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in Lafayette County, Mo. Wilmer Antony Mendoza-Perez, 23, a citizen of Honduras, Luis...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Three more defendants have been indicted in a 10-person conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in northwest Missouri. Kaden Bernard, 22, of St. Joseph, Mo., Raymundo Felix-Perez, 31, a citizen of Mexico who resided in Bethany, Mo., and Joshua Stramel, 26, of Kansas City, Kan., were charged in...

ST. LOUIS - A doctor admitted on Friday that he diluted methadone that was dispensed in a St. Francois County, Missouri, methadone clinic in 2021. Dr. Sunil G. Chand, 59, pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk to one count of adulterating a drug with the...

BOSTON – A Worcester man pleaded guilty today to drug and firearm offenses. Rodney Hall, 38, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for May...

CONCORD, N.H. – Corey Buckley, 42, formerly of Plaistow, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today. According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement officers investigated leads into the defendant’s...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIA MALDONADO, 50, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl. According...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Columbia, Mo., man and a Callaway County, Mo., man were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Boone and Callaway counties. Jeremiah Joseph Foley, 41, of Columbia, and Bradley Wayne Hensley, 40, of Callaway County, were sentenced...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man from St. Charles, Missouri, caught trying to bring 100 pounds of methamphetamine to the St. Louis area to 10 years in prison. A traffic stop in Kansas led to the case against Demond Benard McDaniels Jr...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Kristin P. Prince, 41, of Mesa, Arizona, to 168 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from federal prison, Prince must complete five years of supervised release. According to court documents, the offenses occurred in January...