WASHINGTON - The National Heroin Threat Assessment (NHTA), released today by the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), shows heroin use and availability on the rise and causing more overdose deaths than at any time in the last decade. Although fewer people presently use heroin than other illicit drugs, the heroin...

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Middletown Police Chief William McKenna today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment...

(CONCORD, N.H. - Mohamed Alam, 62, of North Andover, Massachusetts, and Murshed Salam, 47, of Salem, New Hampshire, each pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to selling synthetic cannabinoids announced Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for...

(NEWTOWN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 29 and 30, the Federal Bureau of (FBI), DEA, and HSI, working with the support...

(BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Dasean Nisbett, 24, of Bronx, New York was sentenced today to time served and three years of supervised...

(HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Wallin, 63, last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in...

(NEW HAVEN, 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, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector...

WASHINGTON - DEA Special Agent Joseph Piersante today became the first-ever member of DEA to receive the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom - . Piersante was struck by enemy gun fire while on a counter-terrorism and narcotics mission in Afghanistan in 2011. The Defense of Freedom...

(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 Michael Serritella, 60, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Torresen to 30 months in prison to...

(BOSTON - An Acton woman pleaded guilty today to distributing 25B-NBOMe, a synthetic hallucinogen, also known as “N-Bomb” that is gaining popularity among young people. Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division, and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that Mikayla...