United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOSTON - A nurse pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing pain medication from patients in a nursing care facility in Worcester. Joanna Dacri, 34, of Auburn, Mass., pleaded guilty to one count of acquiring and obtaining Oxycodone by deception. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Phillip Coyne Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Melvin Jackson, age 35, of Ponchatoula was sentenced today for his participation in a drug conspiracy and his participation in a May 11, 2012, shooting and robbery that took place...

WATERBURY, 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 on October 28, 2015, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned a four-count indictment charging Hugo Tejeda -...

BOSTON - A leader of a Lawrence heroin trafficking organization that operated in Massachusetts and New York was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison. Ygoa Almonte-Baez, 48, of Dorchester, Mass., and the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 13 years in...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Miguel Colon, 55, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of trafficking heroin and cocaine, and to carrying a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. Colon was arrested in April 2015 by federal, state and local law enforcement upon his return...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Stephen K. Howard, 64 of Auburn, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to three counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance (1-4 butanediol) and one count of possession of methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., United States...

BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing. Nicholas Ferraro, 25, of Natick, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count...

DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deidre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a three-count indictment charging Alex Garcia, 37, of Danbury...

JACKSON, Miss. - On Wednesday October 21, 2015, after a three day jury trial, Christopher Raynard Kidd, 27, of San Bernardino, California, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams of more of actual methamphetamine and distribution of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special...