WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present, 28-year-old Guatemalan national charged with raping a Massachusetts resident. Officers from ERO Boston arrested Jorge Luis Castro-Alvarado Aug. 1 in Lynn. "Jorge Luis Castro-Alvarado unlawfully entered the United States before making his way to Massachusetts and allegedly vict  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Medical device manufacturer THD America Inc., located in Natick, Massachusetts, and its corporate parent, THD SpA of Italy (collectively, THD), have agreed to pay $700,000 to resolve allegations that THD violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing physicians to use incorrect codes to obtain inflated reimbursement from Medicare and State Medicaid programs for the use of THD's hemorrhoid removal system  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON A Mexican man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. In March 2023, 20 kilograms of cocaine was seized during a traffic stop, along with a tracking device that had been installed in the vehicle by a Mexican drug cartel. Erasmo Lira-Mendez, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Court   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW LONDON, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHYTE, also known as "Jak Mac," 50, of New London, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 195 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics traffickin  more