SAN DIEGO – Scott Anthony Sargent of San Diego was sentenced in federal court to 18 years in prison for supplying the fentanyl that caused the fatal overdoses of a 40-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man in North Park in 2022. At the sentencing hearing on Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Dominican man has been extradited from the Dominican Republic and arrested in connection with his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl to New Hampshire residents, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Starlin Alexander Valdez De Los Santos, 35, was charged in a superseding indictment with one...

CONCORD,N.H. – A Manchester man was sentenced on October 21, 2025 in federal court for operating a counterfeit pill laboratory, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Jerry Summers, age 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro to 80 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised...

WATREBURY, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS MUNOZ, also known as “P.R.” and “Puerto Rico,” 41, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of...

CONCORD, N.H. – Twelve individuals have pleaded guilty over the last eight months in federal court for their participation in a social media-facilitated drug trafficking ring that distributed deadly fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine across New Hampshire and Maine, United States Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Jacob D. King, 41, of Milton...

CONCORD, N.H. –Antoine Valentin, 43, of Somersworth, pleaded guilty October 2, 2025, in federal court for possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. According to the plea agreement, on November 1, 2022, law enforcement authorities arrested Valentin at his Somersworth residence on a state assault...

HARTFORD, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two men involved in a southwestern Connecticut narcotics trafficking ring were sentenced last month by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford. On October 17, RONALD VINCENT, 30, of Stratford, was sentenced...

SAN DIEGO –The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with nearly 4,000 law enforcement partners across the country, will host the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At nearly 4,000 collection sites throughout the United States, DEA’s National Prescription Drug...

CONCORD, N.H. – A Dominican man has pleaded guilty in federal court to immigration and drug offenses, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Robely Eladio De Jesus Guerrero, 37, a Dominican national unlawfully residing in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court in Concord to one count of unlawful reentry of a...

BOSTON – An Allston man has plead guilty in federal court in Boston to trafficking methamphetamine and 1,4-Butanediol (BDO), an analogue of Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) – more commonly known as the “date rape drug” – out of his Allston home. Peter Schiepers, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution...