United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOSTON - A leader of a Lawrence heroin trafficking organization that operated in Massachusetts and New York was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison. Ygoa Almonte-Baez, 48, of Dorchester, Mass., and the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 13 years in...

WATERBURY, 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 on October 28, 2015, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned a four-count indictment charging Hugo Tejeda -...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Stephen K. Howard, 64 of Auburn, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to three counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance (1-4 butanediol) and one count of possession of methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., United States...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Miguel Colon, 55, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of trafficking heroin and cocaine, and to carrying a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. Colon was arrested in April 2015 by federal, state and local law enforcement upon his return...

FRESNO, Calif. - Lawrence Alexander Tidwell, 32, of Coarsegold, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to eight years in prison for cultivating marijuana and being a felon in possession of firearms. According to court documents, a search warrant was served in May 2013 at a...

LAREDO, Texas - A local woman has been ordered to prison for nearly 20 years following her conviction of trafficking liquid methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Brenda Rodriguez-Garcia, 23, of Laredo, following...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - A federal grand jury in Columbus, Ohio, charged seven individuals for their roles in a Steubenville, Ohio, based heroin-trafficking operation. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, William J. Ihlenfeld, II, United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, Joseph...

DEA, Utah Attorney General’s Office Investigation Results in Guilty Plea SALT LAKE CITY - A Sandy, UT doctor pleaded guilty to attempted illegal distribution of a controlled substance, the Utah attorney general's office announced Monday. Third District Judge Paul Parker sentenced Newhall to 24 months of probation and 150 hours...

BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing. Nicholas Ferraro, 25, of Natick, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count...

LAS VEGAS - Mahesh Kuthuru, M.D., 47, of Henderson, Nev. pleaded guilty today to unlawfully writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription painkillers, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada. Kuthuru, who was indicted in October 2014, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution...