DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Norwalk Resident Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Trafficking Offense

Norwalk, CT - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSE DE JESUS VEGA-CERVANTES, 45, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to a fentanyl trafficking offense. According to court documents and statements made in...
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Man Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison for Drug Distribution Conspiracy in Connection with Approximately 30 Pounds of Meth

CONCORD – A Maine man was sentenced today in federal court in Concord for a conspiracy to distribute approximately 14 kilograms (30 pounds) of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Brian Strout, 46, of Turner, Maine, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty to 72 months in...