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New York man sentenced to 14 years for heroin and crack cocaine distribution

BURLINGTON, Vt – Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney for the District of Vermont Christina Nolan announced that Michael Brockenbaugh, 37, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christina Reiss, to a 14-year...
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Retired nurse sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Christine Miles, 59, of Windsor Locks, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven...
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Newport man sentenced for conspiring to distribute heroin

BANGOR, Maine - Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and United States Attorney for the District of Maine Halsey B. Frank announced that Todd Shorey, 54, of Newport, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr...
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New York man sentenced to 10 years for conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine

BANGOR, Maine – Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminitsration’s New England Division and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank for the District of Maine announced that Denton Worrell, aka “Lil D,” 21, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by...
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Lawrence man sentenced to five years for interstate opioid trafficking conspiracy

BOSTON – A Lawrence, Massachusetts, man was sentenced in federal court in Boston yesterday for his role in an opioid trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of fentanyl, heroin, and oxycodone across Massachusetts and Florida. Johnny Urena, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to five years...
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New Jersey heroin supplier sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison

BRIDGEPORT, CT – Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Monseratte Torres, 30, of New Jersey, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to...
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Three brothers charged in conspiracy to distribute more than 20,000 pills of fentanyl

SAN DIEGO – Jose Atalo Felix-Beltran, Arturo Felix-Beltran (U.S. citizens), and Osvaldo Felix-Beltran (U.S. resident) living in Indio, California, were arraigned in federal court on September 14, 2018 on charges that they conspired to distribute over 20,000 pills of fentanyl, a Schedule II drug. These three defendants are brothers who...
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Cocaine laced with fentanyl leads to multiple deaths, overdoses

SAN DIEGO – The Drug Enforcement Administration joined the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, San Diego Police Department, San Diego County Health and Human Services and the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office today to warn the public about a spate of deaths in beach communities connected to cocaine...
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Norwood man sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for heroin trafficking

BOSTON – A Norwood man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing heroin in the Taunton area. Oristel Soto-Peguero, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 22 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In April 2018, Soto-Peguero was convicted by a...
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Postal Annex owner sentenced for structuring currency transactions

SAN DIEGO – Lahkwinder Singh was sentenced in federal court on Sept. 7, 2018, to 36 months in federal prison and a forfeiture of $1,955,521 to the United States for structuring approximately $2,955,521 in currency transactions with domestic financial institutions. The 36-month sentence is one of the longest imposed in...

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