United States Drug Enforcement Administration

RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Terrence (a.k.a.“Stucky”), 31, of Rutland, Vermont...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas O’Donnell, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection (“USPIS”), Jeffrey G. Hughes, Special Agent-in-Charge, Northeast Field Office, of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector (“VA-OIG”)...

SALEM, N.J. - Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan and Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings announce the arrest of an Oregon man and one of Salem County’s largest seizures of methamphetamine. On September 2, 2014, Juan Martinez-(AKA: Rudy A. Figueroa-Alvarado), 33 of Madras, Oregon was arrested and charged with possession...

LOS ANGELES - A Dutch national pleaded guilty late Tuesday to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges, admitting he conspired to run a secret, on-line narcotics marketplace known as the “The Farmer's Market” that sold controlled substances such as LSD, Ecstasy, and marijuana to thousands of customers around the...

EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso, 29-year-old Rigoberto Ruiz-Alatorre, an admitted drug trafficker and former bodyguard for Sinaloa narcotrafficker Gabino Salas-(aka “El Ingeniero”), was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison and fined $5,000 for murdering a member of his drug trafficking organization announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Goyette, 27, of Auburn, Maine, pleaded guilty last Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland to conspiracy to distribute 500...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that Efrain Grimaldo, a resident of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Sarah S. Vance to serve 405 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy...

Lafayette, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found Lafayette attorney Daniel James Stanford, 56, guilty of conspiring to distribute synthetic drugs, conspiring to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, and money...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 17-count indictment today against Kenneth Tam, 53; Gerald Osborne, 56; Sherlynn Charles, 52; Marco Antonio Borja, 38; Adalberto Valenzuela-Ruiz, 30; and Nelson Gutierrez, 26, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin...