PROVIDENCE, RI - Rite Aid has agreed to pay a $300,000 penalty for filling prescriptions at Rhode Island pharmacies of Schedule III controlled substances in excess of statutory maximums announced Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F...

BOSTON – Two Dominican nationals were arrested yesterday and charged with heroin trafficking. Angel Martinez-Peguero, 27, and his brother Alexander Martinez-Peguero, 38, both of whom resided in Lawrence, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Angel Martinez-Peguero...

CONCORD, N.H – Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that 15 individuals were arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearm offenses. The arrests are the culmination of a year-long investigation into drug trafficking in...

BOSTON – A New Jersey firefighter and a Puerto Rican man were convicted by a federal jury in Worcester yesterday in connection with a heroin conspiracy. Ivan Cruz-Rivera, 50, of Dorado, P.R., and Carlos Jimenez, 52, of Englishtown, N.J., were each convicted after a 12-day trial of one count of...

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, today announced that Albert Lee Robinson, 57, of Stamford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to...

CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that a federal jury found Christopher Clough, 44, of Dover, N.H., guilty of participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful...

BANGOR, Maine – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jeffrey Johnson, 58, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to three years in prison and three years...

PORTLAND, Maine – DEA’s New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jason Bolduc, 41, of Parsonsfield, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 150 months in prison and three years of supervised...

BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced today for federal drug and firearm charges arising out of a large-scale seizure of fentanyl and other contraband. Edgar Belis, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 19 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In...

BANGOR, Maine – Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Deborah Toothaker, 55, of Pittsfield, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 46 months in prison and...