United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOISE, Idaho - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 300 hours of...

BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm French, 52, of Enfield; Rodney Russell, 50, of South Thomaston; Kendall Chase, 57, of Bradford; and Haynes Timberland, Inc., a Maine...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Nelson Rios, also known as “Pito,” 37, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sean Costigan, 51, of Pawtucket, was ordered detained in federal custody today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on federal drug trafficking charges, following an investigation by the Warwick Police Narcotics Unit and the R.I. DEA Drug Task Force into the alleged manufacture and...

JAN 15 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Antonio Fleming, a/k/a, "Wookie," age 35, from Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced on January 14, 2014, by United States District Court Chief Judge Ralph R. Beistline. Fleming received a sentence of 52 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release on charges related to...

BOISE, Idaho - - Kenneth Jones, 47, of Rio Linda, California, Robbie Gallegos, 43, of Boise, Idaho, and Heidi Aguila, 34, of Nampa, Idaho, were sentenced this week in federal court for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine distribution ring. The defendants appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Michael Smith - , also known as “Smitty” and...

JAN 06 (BOISE, IDAHO) - Mark A. Ciccarello, 36, of Meridian, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to count four of the indictment charging him with money laundering. Ciccarello and four co-defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury in May 2013 on charges of conspiracy to...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Joel Santana-Pierna and Abel Santana-Pierna, citizens of the Dominican Republic residing in Alaska, were sentenced to 135 months and 72 months imprisonment, respectively, for their roles in masterminding and perpetrating large drug trafficking and tax fraud conspiracies. "The sheer greed of these drug traffickers is clear...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont announced that on Monday, December 16, 2013, Ramell Holder, 36, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 168 months, or fourteen years...