DEA Archived Press Releases

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Heroin, Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced To 15+ Years

FEB 02 - CONCORD, N.H. - Rafael Nicolas Lopez-Carrasco, a/k/a Jose Casellas, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 204 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to...
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Rhode Island Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

FEB 01 - BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy that distributed cocaine, heroin and other narcotics throughout Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Luis Lopez aka Juan Gonzalez, 43, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, was sentenced...
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Sands Point Cardiologist Sentenced For Vicious Assault-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

(MINEOLA, N. Y. - - James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a Sands Point cardiologist who conspired to seriously injure a rival doctor was sentenced today to five years in prison with...
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Manchester Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Participating In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

JAN 31 - 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 Jose (61) of Manchester, was sentenced to serve eight years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute...
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Hartford Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison

JAN 31 - HARTFORD, 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 Todd Vernon, 42, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in...
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Two Charged With Distributing Heroin Involved In Southeastern Connecticut Overdoses

JAN 31 - 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 the investigation of two drug overdose deaths in May 2016 has resulted in federal...
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New York City Heroin, Cocaine Trafficker Found Guilty

(NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Steven Williams was found guilty Friday of conspiring to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine. Williams was convicted after a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield...
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Queens Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder-for-hire

(MANHATTAN, NY - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE LUIS GRACESQUI was sentenced today to life in prison after having been convicted at trial of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire, and murder in connection with a narcotics conspiracy for...
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2nd Major Narcotics Trafficker Extradited To US From Columbia

(NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, and George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the...
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Rhode Island Man Pleads Guilty To Trafficking Heroin And Cocaine

JAN 27 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Bermudez, aka “Michael J. Morales,” 35, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl and trafficking cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United...