United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOSTON – A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed fentanyl throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Alfredo Valdez, 46, of Providence, R.I. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jahquan Blackwin, also known as “Mula,” 27, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a fentanyl trafficking offense. According to court documents and statements made in...

CONCORD, N.H. – Thirteen defendants have been indicted in connection with drug trafficking organizations out of Manchester and Concord, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Over the past week and a half, law enforcement arrested nine of these defendants on conspiracies to distribute controlled substance charges, namely methamphetamine and fentanyl...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Cranston man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that shipped upwards of 100 kilograms of cocaine into Rhode Island from Puerto Rico, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Hector G. Rios pleaded guilty on...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Zaquikon T. Roy, 35, of Brooklyn, New York, was arraigned on February 20, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont on a superseding indictment charging the following: conspiracy to distribute cocaine base...

BOSTON – A Brooklyn man has been convicted by a federal jury in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) in which he transported more than 50 kilograms of cocaine from New York to Boston. Dinelson Hernandez-Rodriguez, a/k/a “Gordo,” 30, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and...

MILFORD, 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 WINIFER ACOSTA JIMINEZ, 29, and OVIDALIS JIMINEZ PUJOLS, 38, both of New York, have been charged by...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Terrence Anderson, 56, of Burlington, Vermont was sentenced today to a 5-year term of imprisonment, following his guilty plea to possessing with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. Chief United...

BOSTON – A Philadelphia woman has been sentenced to eight days in prison for conspiring to distribute kilos of fentanyl and heroin. The government recommended a sentence of 37 months in prison. Elba Pena, 34, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2024 by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Connecticut man detained at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility while awaiting sentencing on a criminal matter prosecuted in the District of Connecticut has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence to two years of incarceration for arranging to have papers soaked with a synthetic...