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BOISE – Tanner Lee Goforth, 38, of Nampa, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for selling a co-worker fentanyl that led to his overdose death, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. According to court records, on May 17, 2022, Goforth met his friend and co-worker, the victim, at...

POCATELLO – U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced the sentences for two separate East Idaho methamphetamine traffickers who will serve a collective 21.5 years in federal prison. Fredy Munoz-Morales, a/k/a Fredi Munoz-Morales, 36, a Mexican citizen and national, was sentenced to 12.5 years in federal prison for possession with intent to...

BOISE – Justin Pedersen, 43, of Kuna, was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine in the Treasure Valley, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. According to court records, between November and December 2023, Pedersen distributed methamphetamine to another person on four separate occasions, totaling 309...

RALEIGH , N.C. – Timothy Mark Blackmon, a 29-year-old resident of Burgaw, has been sentenced to 198 months in prison for possessing counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl with the intent to distribute them in the Wilmington area. The counterfeit pills were made to look like a variety of prescription drugs...

Washington - The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the Sinaloa Cartel...

ST. LOUIS – A man from St. Peters, Missouri, on Friday admitted selling the fentanyl that killed one woman and sent another to the hospital in one day in 2019. Zachary Hovis, 24, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of distribution of fentanyl. Hovis...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Carlos Alejandro Chevalier Santos, 22, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and distribution of controlled substances. U.S. District Court Samantha Elliott scheduled sentencing for September 16, 2024. Charges...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on June 10, 2024, Law Zabriskie, 66, of Bridgewater, Vermont, was sentenced by United States District Judge William K. Sessions III to a time-served sentence to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on June 10, 2024, Keniel Santiago, 21, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced by United States District Judge Christina Reiss to a term of 60 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a three-year term of supervised...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Manchester man was sentenced in federal court for drug trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. John Barber, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Samantha Elliott to 60 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release. The defendant was ordered to forfeit...