DEA, Utah Attorney General’s Office Investigation Results in Guilty Plea SALT LAKE CITY - A Sandy, UT doctor pleaded guilty to attempted illegal distribution of a controlled substance, the Utah attorney general's office announced Monday. Third District Judge Paul Parker sentenced Newhall to 24 months of probation and 150 hours...

BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing. Nicholas Ferraro, 25, of Natick, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count...

LAS VEGAS - Mahesh Kuthuru, M.D., 47, of Henderson, Nev. pleaded guilty today to unlawfully writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription painkillers, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada. Kuthuru, who was indicted in October 2014, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution...

DEL RIO, Texas - Late Friday in Del Rio, a federal jury convicted 36-year-old Xavier Cardona and his 32-year-old brother, Michael Cardona of distributing approximately two kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass, TX, area Announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, United States...

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Tunnel Task Force seized control of a sophisticated cross-border super tunnel last night following a six-month investigation that resulted in the arrests of 22 people in San Diego and Tijuana and the confiscation of 12 tons of marijuana. The tunnel, approximately eight football fields...

DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deidre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a three-count indictment charging Alex Garcia, 37, of Danbury...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Gary Tuggle of the DEA Philadelphia Field Division was invited to speak with undergraduate students enrolled in a Comparative Politics course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These students have elected to spend their semester learning about the war on drugs and alternative approaches...

JACKSON, Miss. - On Wednesday October 21, 2015, after a three day jury trial, Christopher Raynard Kidd, 27, of San Bernardino, California, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams of more of actual methamphetamine and distribution of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special...

DAYTON, Ohio - Travis Matthews, 28, of Dayton was sentenced today to 73 months in prison for possession of a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony offense. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of...

BOSTON - Jorge Delgado, a/k/a Antonio Martinez, a/k/a Elisaul Martinez Santana, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and three counts of distribution of heroin. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for Jan. 13, 2016. Delgado was the leader of...