DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Montville Man Pleads Guilty To Distributing Heroin To Overdose Victim

APR 25 - NEW HAVEN, 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 James Butler, 24, of Montville, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty...
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Hartford Man Sentenced To 6 Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin, Possessing Firearm

APR 24 - 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 Daniel Gamero, 24, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in...
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Fairfield County Drug Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 13 Years In Federal Prison

APR 24 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Bobby Gutierrez, also known as “B.O,” 37, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District...
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Guilty Plea To Trafficking Large Quantities Of Heroin In Maine

APR 24 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Todd Shorey, 52, of Newport, Maine, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. According...
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Trafficker Of Bulk Quantities Of Cocaine In New Haven Sentenced

APR 20 - 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 Axel Pizarro, 41, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford...
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Wallingford Man Pleads Guilty To Distributing Heroin

APR 19 - NEW HAVEN, 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 Daniel Guillen, 28, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to...
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Hannibal Sentenced For Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine

APR 17 - BURLINGTON, Vt. - On April 17, 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 Leander Hannibal, 39, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 37 months in...
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Leader Of Nationwide Marijuana, Money Laundering Ring Pleads Guilty

APR 14 - BOSTON - Ratanack Oung, a/k/a Yoshi, 32, of Allentown, Pa., pled guilty in federal court in Boston to one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. In September 2016, Oung was indicted on these charges and arrested with co-conspirator...
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UPS Employee Sentenced For Cocaine Trafficking

APR 13 - BOSTON - A former United Parcel (UPS) employee was sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that shipped cocaine concealed in UPS packages from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts. Jorge Carrasquillo-Ortiz, 41, of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, was sentenced...
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Stamford Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Oxycodone Distribution Charge

APR 12 - 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 Besim Muriqi, 31, of Stamford, pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of...