trafficking

FALL RIVER — A 39-year-old New Bedford heroin trafficker was convicted at trial last week in Fall River Superior Court and sentenced to serve up to a decade prison. Joseph Jackson was convicted by a jury of his peers last Thursday of trafficking in excess of 100 grams of heroin...

Members of the police narcotics unit took more than 180 grams of cocaine, with a value of over $18,000 off the street Tuesday night.

Officers pulled up behind the vehicle and observed the operator and passenger involved in matters unrelated to operating a motor vehicle.

A North Dartmouth woman was indicted and charged in connection with drug trafficking involving shipments of multiple kilograms of cocaine sent through the mail.

The arrest was part of "Operation Cross Country XI," a nationwide sex trafficking sting cracking down on operations being run out of hotels, casinos, and truck stops.

Dartmouth Police arrested a Middleboro woman and seized 410 bags of fentanyl, with an approximate street value of $2,000.

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...

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 ...