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Trafficker smuggling large quantities of deadly fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine sentenced to 168 months

December 23, 2019
SAN DIEGO – April Spring Kelly, of San Diego, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 14 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month period ending in October 2018. According to admissions in her plea...

Local trafficker distributing methamphetamine in North San Diego County sentenced to 10 years

December 23, 2019
SAN DIEGO – Orlando Balderas Guerrero, of Menifee, Calif., was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in custody for participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. According to his plea agreement, Guerrero admitted that for a one-year period, he obtained bulk methamphetamine from a broker in Mexico and...

Farmington man sentenced to 42 months for methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy

December 17, 2019
CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Dean Smoronk, 58, of Farmington, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents and statements made...

NEFD announce 645 arrests and seizure of 17.9 kilograms of fentanyl, 7,800 illicit fentanyl pills, 13.9 kilograms of cocaine, 3.1 kilograms of heroin, 51 firearms and $1.2 million in cash during two-week New England surge

December 10, 2019
BOSTON - Drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States and every day we see the impact that drug abuse has on our neighborhoods. This crisis is destroying communities throughout New England and our nation. In an effort to address this epidemic, the Drug Enforcement...

Milford man involved in marijuana trafficking ring sentenced to 95 months of imprisonment

December 03, 2019
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Robert Capelli, 34, of Milford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven, CT to...

DEA investigation leads to 36 arrests in fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine conspiracy

November 19, 2019
CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged 36 individuals with crimes related to narcotics and money laundering conspiracies in an indictment that was unsealed today. Those charged include 22 local individuals. Law enforcement agents arrested all 36 defendants late last week and over the weekend. According to the indictment...

Dover man sentenced to 10 years for methamphetamine trafficking

November 14, 2019
CONCORD, N.H., – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Alfonz Vei, 45, of Dover, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, beginning in...

New York man sentenced to 120 months for methamphetamine trafficking

November 05, 2019
CONCORD, N.H. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Edwin Martinez-Guzman, 37, of New York, was sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. According to court...

Turner man faces up to 40 years in prison on charges stemming from marijuana cultivation

October 18, 2019
PORTLAND, Maine - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that a Turner man pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland to manufacturing 100 or more marijuana plants, possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, possessing an unregistered silencer and...

Brockton man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

September 26, 2019
BOSTON – A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction. Angelo Pina, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 15 months in prison for violating the terms of...
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