COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tiauna Castro, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to participating in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from the illegal sale of dangerous painkillers, including oxycodone, in central Ohio. Benjamin C. Glassman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of...

SEP 12 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard W. Szpyt, a/k/a “Zip,” 57, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George...

SEP 09 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Jevaughn Watson, 23, of Bridgeport, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with...

DETROIT - A superseding indictment was returned yesterday adding new criminal charges against 13 Detroit-area men accused of conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine and other drugs, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Nine of the defendants were charged with distributing fentanyl and heroin resulting in overdose death and...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man has been sentenced to 365 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of a 29 year-old woman, who had given birth just two weeks before her death. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves sentenced 44 year-old...

AUG 30 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Ryan Welch, 22, of Salem, Mass., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden...

AUG 29 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Northern Maine Medical (NMMC), has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it will...

AUG 25 - HARTFORD, 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 Steven Santucci, 40, of Waterbury, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in...

AUG 25 - CONCORD, N.H. - Brett Scott, 24, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal charge related to the sales of misbranded drugs, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division...

AUG 25 - CONCORD, N.H. - Christopher DeCoste, 20, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to federal charges of possessing over 400 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm...