Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Police Smell Pot Coming from Car, Discover Cocaine in Wellsley Mass.

WELLSLEY PATCH

Driver charged with possession of Class B substance.

A 21-year-old Wellesley man caught with marijuana was right when he told a police detective pot had been decriminalized in Massachusetts. Keeping a bag of cocaine in your car, however, is still very much a criminal act.

While making an early-morning motor vehicle stop on Weston Road Sunday, two officers, including a detective, smelled marijuana emanating from a yellow vehicle as it passed them. The police followed the car to the Mobil gas station on Washington Street, where the detective questioned the driver, Tyler Boyd of 4 Damien Road, about the odor.

Boyd, who had two male passengers, initially said there was no marijuana in the car, according to police; he later conceded he had less than an ounce of pot and cited the state's 2008 decriminalization of marijuana, which makes such small possession punishable by a $100 civil fine. Offenders are not reported to the state's criminal history board. Boyd turned over a bottle that contained about two grams of marijuana.

The detective also noticed in the back seat an open 12-pack of beer, which one passenger had attempted to cover with a towel. Additionally, police located a bag containing a white powder - which a field test showed to be cocaine - and a bottle of pills, the prescription for which did not belong to anyone in the vehicle. Boyd was arrested and charged with possession of a class B substance; the two passengers will be summoned to Dedham District Court for the same. Boyd also was issued a town bylaw violation for the marijuana possession.

"We see marijuana possession periodically," Wellesley police spokeswoman Lt. Marie Cleary said. "Other narcotics, less often. That's not to say it never happens, but it's not weekly or even monthly."

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