United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MIAMI - Last night, federal law enforcement officers arrested a foreign elected official charged in the United States (U.S.) with drug trafficking, following the official’s international flight from the Dominican Republic to Miami. Fifty-eight-year-old Miguel Andres Gutierrez Diaz, of Santiago, is an elected member of the Chamber of Deputies of...

PORTLAND, ME – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced that a Sanford woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute fentanyl resulting in death and serious bodily injury. U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby...

NORFOLK, Va. – A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and heroin, and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, Christopher McKinley Barnes, 36, sold heroin and fentanyl from late 2016 until he was arrested on April 16...

CONCORD, NH – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Steven Lessard, 34, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents...

FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Marcus Randall, 37, of Bakersfield, charging him with distribution of fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon announced. According to court documents, on Dec. 16, 2020...

HARTFORD, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Omrys Delgado, 33, of Windsor, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jose A Solis-Pizarro, 35, and Mirelys Camacho Betancourt, 25, both of Buffalo, NY, with...

NEWARK, N.J. – A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. Jose A. Rivera Jr., 48, of Union Township, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by videoconference before United States District Judge Stanley R. Chesler to an information charging him with one...

NEW YORK - Roman Narvaez Ansazoy, the founder and principal leader of an international drug trafficking enterprise based in Colombia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn to leading a continuing criminal enterprise as charged in a superseding indictment. When sentenced, Narvaez will face a mandatory minimum term of...

TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced two men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that sold...