United States Drug Enforcement Administration

STATESVILLE, N.C. - On Monday February 2, 2015, U.S. District Judge Richard L.Voorhees handed down prison sentences to three men for their involvement in a methamphetamine trafficking ring, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Kenneth Herman Bennett, 53, of West Jefferson, N.C. was...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Francis Block, 45, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to life in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney for various drug and witness tampering charges. Block was convicted following a four-day jury trial that concluded on October 2...

(PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New England Field Division and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced that Neftali Reyes, a/k/a Popi, 32, of Providence, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin. Additionally, Reyes forfeited...

(HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Jermaine Jenkins, 34, formerly of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in...

RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that Tavaris Delino Battle, 30, of Elm City, Tony Marichal Sharp, 31, of Sharpsburg, Byron Dale Whitaker, 23, of Sharpsburg, Gregory Devonte Robertson, 20, of Rocky Mount, Natalie Baker Lynch, 33, of Roanoke Rapids, Tremayne A. Lynch, 35, of Rocky...

(BOSTON - New England Field Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Ferguson and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced that the United States reached a civil settlement yesterday with Performance Nutrition, a Seekonk, Mass.-based business that sells nutritional supplements online and in retail stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and...

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Friday, January 23, Scott Myrie, also known as “Venom,” 27, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., was...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nate Brewer - , 34, of Blaine, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gina Nelson, 31 - , of Bradley, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr...

(BOSTON - After a month-long federal trial, Joshua M. Gonsalves was sentenced on multiple charges arising from a three-year conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which he and his brother distributed on Cape Cod and generated over $5 million in proceeds. Joshua M. Gonsalves, 34, of Dennisport...