Trafficking

A 27-year-old New Bedford man convicted of trafficking in fentanyl was sentenced Friday to serve up to four years in state prison.

FAIRHAVEN — Fairhaven Police Detectives, working with Mattapoisett Police Detectives, arrested 28-year-old Zachary Lovegrove on multiple drug charges Friday night. Police executed a search warrant just before 6 p.m. Friday at Lovegrove's residence at 344 ½ Main Street apartment 2S in Fairhaven...

A 31-year-old Fall River man who was trafficking large quantities of heroin in both Fall River and New Bedford was sentenced to serve six to eight years in state prison last week, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.

A Fairhaven man was re-sentenced today in federal court in Boston as a result of a prior vacated conviction stemming from the state crime lab scandal.

BOSTON — Two New Bedford residents were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for their roles in a wide-ranging conspiracy that distributed heroin throughout Bristol County and Providence, RI. Eric DeSousa, 26, and Tyson DePina, 40, were sentenced by U...

BOSTON — A Fall River man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy that distributed cocaine and heroin throughout Bristol County and Providence, Rhode Island. Nuno Fonseca, also known as “Farigno,” 38, of Fall River, was sentenced by U...

Three Cape Cod men pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin and suboxone. Oliver Hamilton, 26, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and possession of heroin with the intent to distribute...

A 26-year-old New Bedford heroin trafficker with a lengthy history of dealing drugs in and around the Whaling City was convicted last week and sentenced to serve five to seven years in state prison, District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced...

New Bedford narcotics and gang unit detectives, in conjunction with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, obtained a federal arrest warrant for Rafael Reyes, 37, of 12 Roosevelt St. Apt. 1, New Bedford, as the result of his arrest in November 2016 ...

New Bedford Police took 21 grams of Fentanyl and a loaded .25 caliber firearm off the street Wednesday after a traffic stop in the area of 60 Nauset St. This is the fifth illegal handgun taken off the streets in the last two days. Jonathan Hernandez, 22, of 77 Cedar St ...