United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BURLINGTON, Vt.) - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eric Miller United States Attorney for the District of Vermont along with Vermont's federal, state, and local law enforcement officials announced federal criminal charges against 12 individuals accused of trafficking heroin...

PHOENIX - The DEA Phoenix Division announces the sentencing of Edward Jack Sayegh, M.D. to four years in prison, after the Phoenix area doctor pleaded guilty to multiple charges including conspiracy, fraud, and multiple drug diversion charges following a long-term investigation into his medical practice, Arizona Family Medicine. In February...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration and Deidre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Wilmer Antonio Gomez-Rodriguez, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in...

BOSTON - A violent South Coast drug dealer was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for the robbery of two large-scale oxycodone dealers and related narcotics crimes. "The communities of the South Shore can rest assured knowing that this violent, high-level narcotics dealer will remain behind bars for an...

DANBURY, 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, today announced that Casey Kershaw, 27, of Danbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Alkis (“Nakos”), age 36, was convicted by a federal jury of operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States...

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 Ernest Oprecht, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 54...

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 two men involved in gang-related narcotics trafficking in Hartford were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker...

BOSTON - Five individuals were charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with distributing oxycodone throughout the North Shore. Joseph Romano, 38, of Peabody; Anthony Panarese, 35 of Peabody; Paul Williams, 51, of Malden; David Turner, Sr., 55, of Peabody; and Ashley Turner, 26, of Peabody, where arrested this morning...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, on August 17, 2015, Matthew Farkas, 42, of Montreal, Canada, was sentenced to 37 months in federal...