NEW ORLEANS - A 33-year old New Orleans man was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in August to conspiring to distribute heroin and other drugs, including acetyl fentanyl shipped from China, to New Orleans area customers, announced Stephen G. Azzam the Special Agent-in-Charge...

MAR 07 - 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 Nathan Brewer, 35, of Presque Isle, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock...

MAR 06 - 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 Mark Tasker, 49, of Dexter, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10...

MAR 06 - 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 Kelli Mujo, 31, of Harmony and Wellington, Maine and Central Falls, Rhode Island, was sentenced today in U.S. District...

MAR 02 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Bernardo Roman-Rolan, also known as “Benny,” 41, of North Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford, Connecticut to 68 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in...

MOBILE, Ala. - A jury has convicted defendants Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch of numerous felonies following a seven-week trial, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown. Ruan and Couch jointly owned and operated two pain management clinics under the name Physicians...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Richard Duane Johns, 49, of Little Rock pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone without an effective prescription. John, a former doctor, was responsible for illegally distributing at least 39,000 pills, with a street value of more than $1,000,000. Johns pleaded guilty Thursday before a Chief...

FEB 28 - BOSTON - A New Bedford woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for stashing drugs in her home for a drug trafficking ring that operated in Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. Shirley Vargas, 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton...

FEB 28 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jeannette Hardy, 26, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison based upon her conviction for...

FEB 28 - 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 Teddy Stuart Lopez, Jr., also known as “Chico” and “Junior,” 20, of Waterbury, was sentenced...