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Hackensack, NJ
News
50,000 Pills: Feds Hold Accused Fentanyl Trafficker From Mexico In Bergen Jail After NYC Bust
Federal authorities kept an accused fentanyl trafficker in custody at the Bergen County Jail after they said they caught her selling 50,000 potentially fatal fentanyl pills in Manhattan. Agari Reyes-Sillero, a 34-year-old Mexican national, got into a cooperator’s car in with the multi-colored pills packed into four protein powder containers on Feb. 5, 2023, a complaint signed by a DEA agent alleges. She expected to be paid $400,000 in return, the complaint filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan says. Members of a task force comprised of DEA agents, the NYPD and the New Yo…
Bowie, MD
News
Brother-Sister Duo Cop To Selling Fentanyl-Laced Pills To Woman With Previous OD In DC
It was a family affair for a brother-sister duo who admitted to selling fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of a 20-year-old woman in 2021 in Washington, DC. Larry Jerome Eastman, 22, of Temple Hills, and his sister, DC resident Justice Michelle Eastman, 26, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl following the death of a known drug user, federal authorities announced. Prosecutors said that the Eastmans were linked to the fatal overdose when investigators reviewed their victim’s phone following…
Springfield, MA
Police & Fire
Three Suspected Holyoke Drug Dealers Busted: Police
After months of investigation between more than half a dozen agencies, Holyoke narcotics officers raided a suspected drug den and arrested three people. Police raided the home at 392 Pleasant street just after 2 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, to make the arrests. Investigators found heroine, morphine, opium, and cocaine in the home, Holyoke police said. Officers with the Hampden County Narcotics Task Force, CINRET, Safe Task Force, MSP Stop Team, HPD Narcotics Vice Unit, FBI Gang Task Force, and the DEA took part in the raid, authorities said. Those arrested and their cha…
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Boston Drug Dealer's 1K Fentanyl Pill Stash Raided: Police
Three arrest warrants were executed to nab a drug dealer and a stash of drugs and cash, including fentanyl pressed into pills, officials say. Police from the Roxbury Drug Control Unit and the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force arrested 32-year-old Tomas Lopez Cabrera on Wednesday, Jan. 11 around 3:30 p.m., according to the Boston Police Department. An ongoing drug investigation resulted in three search warrants which were carried out at 3 Fairland Street in Dorchester. Police recovered: 1,278 pressed fentanyl pills (183 grams) Two large plastic bags of …
Jersey City, NJ
News
Leader Of Jersey City Drug Crew Sentenced To More Than 4 Years Without Parole
The leader of a crew that slung cocaine and heroin in the Greenville section of Jersey City was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison. Jerome Powell, 43, must serve just about all of the plea-bargained 51-month sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. He and four accused members worked in the area of Columbia Park, moving the drugs from an undisclosed stash house to a home on Bartholdi Avenue that servied buyers, according to a DEA complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark. Authorities built a case by recording street deals and picking off buy…
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ
UPDATE: Three Georgia men charged earlier this month with shooting a Bergen County resident while posing as FBI agents during a summer home invasion have been brought to New Jersey to face charges. Two others remained held down South pending the outcome of extradition proceedings. Aaron Thomas Perry, 53, of Dunwoody, Ali Sadeeq Muhammad, 33, of Atlanta, and Roderick Moracle Carmichael, 50, of Stockbridge will remain held in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack while the case against them and two other co-defendants proceeds. They were brought up separately over the past several days -- Car…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
'Clueless' NJ Carjacker Needed Facial Surgery After Trying To Steal DEA Agent's Jeep: Report
A "clueless" carjacker from New Jersey is facing federal charges after he tried to steal an undercover DEA agent’s government-issued Jeep in Manhattan, reports the New York Post. The agent was stopped at a red light at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue shortly after midnight on Friday, Dec. 9 when Zachary Bell, of Maplewood, demanded he get out of the vehicle, the outlet said citing court paperwork. Bell, 32, reached toward his waist band as if he had a gun — prompting the 7-year DEA vet to turn on his police lights and pull out his own gun before tackling Bell and handcuffing him, court papers …
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Boston Man Convicted With 'Breaking Bad' Quality Meth Gets Nearly 10 Years: Feds
A 33-year-old Boston man who police arrested with pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamines in a hotel room was sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars, federal authorities said. Daniel Lennon pleaded guilty over the summer to one count of distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine and two counts of distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. A judge gave him 118 months in prison on Monday, Dec. 12. The DEA became aware of Lennon after someone arrested on charges of buying drugs approached agents in an attempt to get leni…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Carload Of Fool's Gold Sinks Jersey City DEA Imposter's Plan For Riches: Feds
When a Massachusetts woman contacted federal authorities to report a man claiming to be one of them and asking for $330,000 in gold bars, they came up with a plan that would turn the tables and ultimately land the Jersey City imposter in police custody. The undercover agents set up a meeting with 38-year-old Gaurang Contractor in a Texas Roadhouse parking lot, and promised told two buckets of gold waiting for him inside a car's trunk. The gold was as real as his DEA badge. Investigators said Contractor contacted the woman in August and claimed to be a DEA agent named Oscar White, autho…
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
7,000 Pills: Boston Man Busted Selling Fentanyl, Synthetic Analogue: Feds
Federal authorities arrested a Boston man and charged him with selling thousands of fentanyl pills and the fentanyl analogue known as para-fluorofentanyl, officials said. Melvin Cordero, 40, faces charges of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and p-fluorofentanyl, the DEA announced on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Agents said that Cordero sold thousands of pills to an undercover agent in March and tried to sell the officer a pill press. Police seized the machine during his arrest. If convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl a…
Springfield, MA
Police & Fire
Holyoke Man Admits To Working With Violent Mexican Cartel Drug Ring: Feds
A Holyoke man pleaded guilty to helping a Mexican drug cartel distribute fentanyl throughout Massachusetts, federal authorities said. Police found drugs, money, body armor, and a stockpile of guns when they arrested him last year, officials added. Josue Rivera Rodriguez, 45, who goes by the nickname Bori, confessed last week to charges of conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, distribution of 400 grams or more of fentanyl, and two counts of distribution of 40 grams or more of fentanyl, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and…
Bridgeport, CT
News
Out-Of-State Man Admits To Supplying Bridgeport Gang Members With Firearms
A former Fairfield County resident has pleaded guilty to a single count of firearms trafficking in which local gangs were supplied with guns. Stephfan Sanderson, age 24, aka “Birdy” and “Beans," made his plea in Bridgeport on Tuesday, Nov. 15, said Vanessa Roberts Avery, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, the FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals, and Bridgeport Police have been investigating multiple Bridgeport-based gangs whose members are involved in narcotics trafficking, murder, and other acts of violence. &nbs…
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