SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – An updated penal code signed into law Monday by the Puerto Rican governor increases prison sentences for homicide, assault and other offenses as the U.S. island territory ...

The Puerto Rico man was convicted for his role in a cocaine trafficking operation that was shipping parcels containing ...

A Vineland man who participated in having cocaine mailed from Puerto Rico is set to join three coconspirators in state prison ...

Jatniel Morales Gonzalez, 28, and his accomplices used USPS to mail cocaine from Puerto Rico to drop locations in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.

BRIDGEPORT - A Puerto Rican man convicted of using the mail to ship cocaine to New Britain and Meriden was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on commutations and pardons issued by President Barack Obama on Tuesday (all times EST): 5:20 p.m. U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of 74-year-old ...

SAN JUAN (Reuters) - A Jamaican man was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of an undercover policeman in Puerto Rico after a jury rejected federal prosecutors' request to impose a death ...

Julia Keleher, who had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, said she was “inept” in how she handled some big policy changes in a troubled system. By Patricia Mazzei Two years ago, federal ...