Baltimore, MD. – In the last week, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced three members of the Monument Street drug trafficking organizations to at least five years in federal prison related to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or fentanyl in the Monument Street area of East...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Elkie Crump, also known as “40,” 39, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 51 months...

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today for distributing fentanyl on multiple occasions. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Quotez Tyveck Pair, 33, a known drug trafficker operating in Mosby Court, a Richmond public housing community, engaged in two separate distributions of fentanyl...

ROANOKE, Va. -- Monta Jordan, a convicted drug kingpin who was subject to one of the largest fentanyl seizures in Virginia at the time, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to 240 months in federal prison, Jared Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Domenico Sandalo, 46, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by...

BOSTON – A Stoughton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine. Matthew Pizarro, 30, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 10 years in prison and eight years of supervised release. In November 2019, Pizarro pleaded guilty...

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today for possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. According to court records and evidence presented at trial in May 2019, law enforcement initiated an investigation into certain heroin and cocaine trafficking activities in...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging four Ecuadorian nationals after they were intercepted on the Pacific Ocean while traveling on unflagged vessels with over 700 kilograms of cocaine. According to the indictment and to a criminal complaint filed earlier this year, Julio Luis...

GREENBELT, Md. – A federal grand jury has indicted the owner and operator of a purported pain management clinic, as well as two nurse practitioners who were employed at the clinic, on federal charges for conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone and for distribution and dispensing of oxycodone. Charged in...

BOSTON – A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in relation to the seizure of over 10 kilograms of fentanyl and heroin in December 2018. Carlos Soto-Villar, 34, a Dominican national formerly residing in Lawrence, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to 188 months in prison and...