United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOSTON - A New Jersey firefighter and a Puerto Rican man were arraigned in U.S. District Court in Worcester today in connection with selling heroin in Leominster, Mass. Carlos Jimenez, 50, of Englishtown, NJ, and Ivan Cruz-Rivera, 47, of Dorado, PR, were charged in a complaint with one count of...

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 James Costanzo, 38, of Ansonia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 57...

BOSTON - The final tally is in from the 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on April 30th, 2016. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Division and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 86,900 pounds or 43.4 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs at 551...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced the leader and three co-conspirators to prison terms ranging from 57 months to 70 months for their involvement in a methamphetamine trafficking ring operating in the Henderson county area, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western...

ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 8,853 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount was the third...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) eleventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 15,449 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount is...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 6,688 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount is...

NASHVILLE - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 21,229 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount far exceeded the...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Justin Bartimus, 35, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on May 4, 2016 to: (1) conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to...

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 Bradley Commerford, 20, of Derby, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty in New Haven federal...