United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SHERMAN, Texas – A Lubbock man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs through the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Mark Anthony Calzadias, 48, pleaded guilty...

BEAUMONT, Texas – A Houston man was sentenced to federal prison for trafficking drugs through the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Jaime Garcia-Sanchez, 20, pleaded guilty on July 14, 2022, to...

NEWARK, N.J. – A New York man was arrested in East Rutherford, New Jersey for possessing with intent to distribute approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine and 25 kilograms of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Alejandro Nouel Lajud, 39, of Yonkers, New York, is charged by complaint with...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Providence man who, on multiple occasions, while under surveillance by members of the Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force, sold pills containing methamphetamine, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Jamont Patrick, 30, arrested in November 2021...

HARTFORD, Conn. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jorge Torres, 23, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment today in United States District Court by United States District Judge William K. Sessions III. Torres previously pleaded guilty to...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on December 6, 2022, David Reyes, 32, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 43 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging NERICK DIAZ-QUESADA, 24, of New...

BOSTON – A Worcester man pleaded guilty on Dec. 5, 2022 to distributing fentanyl and methamphetamine. Johanny Torres-Rojas, 56, pleaded guilty to two counts of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. U.S...

NEW YORK CITY – Today in Manhattan Supreme Court, Julin Liriano was sentenced to prison for possessing narcotics and three loaded guns, including an assault rifle that he pointed at a New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective conducting surveillance on a residential street in Middle Village, Queens. Liriano previously...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Cucamonga, California, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after a state trooper found 165 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle. Rafael Solis, 30, was charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield with one count of possessing methamphetamine with...