PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jose Ignacio Goris, 39, of Providence, was ordered detained in federal custody today, charged with attempt to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Goris was arrested on Thursday by DEA Drug Task Force agents moments after he allegedly took custody of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ashley Sekator-Graham, 31, of Providence, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in South Kingstown and Narragansett, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England field...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Melchor Arroyos, 53, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Daniel L. Mills, also known as “Boone,” 35, of Hamden, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting 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 Ellis Thomas, also known as “L” and “Big Homey,” 30, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury returned a verdict earlier today finding Miguel Bustamante-Conchas, 39, a Mexican national with legal permanent resident status in the United States, guilty on heroin trafficking charges after a six-day trial, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy...

ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Larez, 33, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a distribution of a controlled substance analogue charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Larez will be sentenced to a year of probation. Larez and his co-defendants, Garlan R...

ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Jaramillo, 24, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his role in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy. Jaramillo was one of five men who were indicted in April 2013, on federal narcotics and...

ALBUQUERQUE - On July 24, 2014, Carlos Luis Bujanda, 46, of Hobbs, N.M., entered a guilty plea in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Bujanda was arrested on Dec. 12, 2013, on a criminal complaint alleging that he possessed methamphetamine with intent to distribute in...

The delivery of 9 kilos of crystal meth was orchestrated from inside a Massachusetts jail PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New England Field Division and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced Doneri Aguilar Sandoval, 53, of Attleboro, Mass., was...