FEB 22 - 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 Brandon Lancaster, 21, of Norridgewock, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to distributing oxycodone. According to court...

FEB 21 - BANGOR, 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 Bradford Christopher, 36, of Alna, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to two years...

WASHINGTON D.C. - China’s National Narcotics Control Commission announced this week that scheduling controls against four fentanyl-class substances - carfentanil, furanyl fentanyl, valeryl fentanyl, and acryl fentanyl - will begin on March 1, 2017. This announcement is the culmination of ongoing collaboration between the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Government...

FEB 17 - 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 Paul Bellofiore, M.D., 56, of Trumbull, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford...

FEB 16 - BANGOR, 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 Joshua Bickmore, 30, of Guilford, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr...

FEB 16 - 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 Ronald Weaver, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...

FEB 16 - BOSTON - An Israeli national and his co-conspirator were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to transfer $2.5 million of cocaine from Colombia to Israel via Boston as well as money laundering. Jalal Altarabeen, aka Glal El Tarbin, aka Jalal Salamah...

FEB 16 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Sydney Jackson, also known as “Fatz,” 34, of New London, Conn. and Queens, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson...

FEB 15 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An investigation into the trafficking of heroin in Rhode Island has resulted in the seizure of nearly six kilograms of heroin, allegedly brought to Rhode Island from New York, and the arrest of two individuals, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA...

FEB 15 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Yesterday a federal grand jury in Providence returned a two-count indictment charging a Providence couple with allegedly trafficking fentanyl laced heroin. Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA for New England Michael J. Ferguson, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State...