United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Pawtucket man who previously admitted to a federal judge that he was in possession of more than two kilos of fentanyl, a loaded Glock handgun, and nearly $80,000 in cash when he was arrested in October 2019 during a Pawtucket Police Department Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE LORA, 30, of Hartford, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Roosevelt Norris, 54, of Rutland, Vermont, appeared on Friday, September 22, 2023, before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle after the federal grand jury in Burlington charged him with three counts of...

BOSTON – A New York man has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl in Woburn. Ruben Davila Cardenas, 45, pleaded guilty to distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf scheduled sentencing for Dec. 20, 2023. In October 2021, Cardenas distributed approximately three...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE LORA, 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced that Melinda Morgan, 41, and Dale Taylor, 39, of Colchester, Vermont were arraigned today on drug trafficking and gun charges arising from a June 30, 2023 traffic stop near Brattleboro, Vermont. According to the indictment in the...

BOSTON – A Springfield man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for drug trafficking and firearm offenses. Marcus Hicks, 43, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and one count of possessing...

BOSTON – A Springfield woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for allegedly possessing fentanyl intended for distribution. Karyela Santiago, 26, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. According to the indictment, on March 30, 2022, Santiago possessed fentanyl intended for...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on September 18, 2023, Kenneth Jackson, 69, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont to serve 48 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUSTIN GAY, 27, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for multiple gun and...