Massachusetts Drug Case: Occupy Boston protester arrested on drug dealing charges

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VIA THE BOSTON GLOBE ONLINE

By Jaime Lutz

November 8, 2011

A man who said he was living at the Occupy Boston encampment in Boston’s Dewey Square is facing drug dealing charges.

Officers arrested Adam Brisbois, 28, of Boston in the South Station bus terminal Monday night after he sold seven clonidine pills to undercover officers in the bathroom for $14, Boston police said in a statement. Clonidine is used to treat high blood pressure and other disorders.

Brisbois was charged with possession with intent to distribute both Class C and Class E drugs, police said.

When the officers asked Brisbois where he lived, he allegedly told them, “I’m occupying. I have in blue tent in there,” gesturing toward Dewey Square. Brisbois told officers he had been protesting for more than a week, police said.

When he was arrested, Brisbois said he had been involved in the movement for over a week. During booking, he provided an address of Dewey Square, Boston, police said.

There have been several arrests near or in the tent city on drug-related charges in recent weeks.

Since the Occupy protesters arrived, “officers have noticed an increase in drug activity in and around the South Station/Dewey Square area,” police said.

Massachusetts Drug Case: Two arrested after drug raid prompted by neighbors' calls

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VIA THE FALL RIVER HERALD ONLINE

By Kevin P. O'Connor

Herald News Staff Reporter

Posted Nov 04, 2011

FALL RIVER —

It is always a good idea to be nice to your neighbors.

But that is especially true if your neighbors can put you in jail with a single call.

Steven Cordeiro, 51, and Barbie-Jo Martins, 46, both of 1886 Pleasant St., were arrested Thursday at home after a raid by detectives with the Vice and Intelligence Unit.

“These two arrests were the result of citizens’ complaints about drug activity in the area of Pleasant and Barlow Street,” said Lt. Roger LeFleur, the spokesman for the police.

Neighbors specifically complained about the traffic flowing through the area and the behavior of people drawn to the area.

The complaints were enough to send detectives in undercover cars up into that area to take a look for themselves.

“They went up and took a look and then began an investigation,” LeFleur said.

Detectives turned up enough information to get a search warrant. They went to the address Thursday to serve it.

Detectives surrounded the address and were watching it prior to their raid when Cordeiro drove up and got out of his car to go to his home.

“The detectives approached him and identified themselves,” LeFleur said. “Mr. Cordeiro took off running. He went about 50 feet and then stopped and raised his hands. He was arrested then.”

Detectives went into the home at that point and arrested Martins. During the search, they allege they turned up 20 bags of heroin, packaged in small amounts for street sale.

They also seized $1,520 in cash. Martins was arrested when police allegedly found 49 Xanax tablets in her possession. She could not produce a valid prescription for the medication, police alleged.

Cordeiro was charged with possession with the intent to distribute heroin. Martins was charged with illegal possession of a prescription drug.

Both of them will face charges in District Court.

Email Kevin P. O’Connor at koconnor@heraldnews.com.

Massachusetts Drugs and Weapons Case: Somerville police arrest man with drugs, knife and suspended license

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VIA THE SOMERVILLE JOURNAL ONLINE

Somerville —

A man who picked a fight with a woman was later found driving with illegal drugs and a knife earlier this month, according to a police report.

On Oct. 20 at 2:45 p.m., an officer was flagged down on Highland Avenue near Vinal Avenue and informed about a man in a black Cadillac Escalade starting a fight with a woman nearby. The victim said she was trying to park her car when the suspect allegedly started screaming at her from his car.

The car was spotted before Walnut Street and a license plate search revealed that the registered owner had a suspended license due to a distribution of Class D substance charge.

Police pulled the car over. A pat frisk revealed a 3-inch folding knife in his upper waistband and two pills n his pocket believed to be suboxone.

Derek McMasters, 32, of an unknown address was arrested on charges of charges of possessing a Class D drug, possession of a dangerous weapon and driving on a suspended license.

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Major Massachusetts Drug Case: Weeklong sting nets drugs, cash, arrests

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VIA THE BOSTON HERALD

By BETH PERDUE

bperdue@s-t.com

November 01, 2011

FAIRHAVEN — Police in Fairhaven charged six people and seized more than 100 Percocet tablets and $17,000 in cash in a weeklong surveillance and sting operation that ended Thursday.

Working with the Bristol County Sheriff's Office South Coast Anti-Crime Task Force, Fairhaven police arrested Christopher Serra, 26, of 139 Spring St., on Oct. 27, after they said they observed him in multiple hand-to-hand drug transactions. Also arrested was New Bedford resident Christopher Bretton, 20, after he completed a drug transaction with Serra in a local parking lot, according to police.

With access to Serra's phone, police conducted a sting operation responding to texts from customers to set up seemingly authentic drug deals. Four additional people, including at least two Fairhaven residents, were charged from the sting. police said. The four face narcotics violations in Third District Court.

Serra and Bretton's arrests came after a weeklong surveillance during which Serra was seen making numerous hand-to-hand drug transactions within close proximity to his apartment, according to police.

Serra was charged with distribution of a Class B controlled substance, conspiracy to violate drug laws and school zone violations for distributing within 1,000 feet of Hastings Middle School. Bretton was charged with possession of a Class B substance and conspiracy to violate drug laws.

In a search of Serra's apartment, police said they recovered a safe filled with a large amount of cash. In total, more than $17,000 in cash and 100 Percocet tablets were seized.

Fairhaven police worked with the Bristol County Sheriff's Office South Coast Anti-Crime Task Force and Mattapoisett and Dartmouth departments in the operation. Working through the task force gives the department greater flexibility and offers officers broader jurisdiction, said Fairhaven Sergeant Kevin Kobza.

"We have jurisdiction throughout Bristol County once we become sworn deputies with the task force," said Kobza. "It's been very productive for us. It has led to being able to do more than we would have been able to do."

Major Massachusetts Drug Case: Man caught with 15 pounds of pot in Quincy gets suspended sentence

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VIA THE PATRIOT LEDGER

November 2, 2011

A 61-year-old man has pleaded guilty to having 15 pounds of marijuana at a rent-subsidized housing for the elderly building in Wollaston where police said he had been living.

Angel R. Colon, was arrested Dec. 22 outside Wollaston Manor at 91 Clay St. A package sent from Montrose, Calif., raised suspicions when it arrived at the Wollaston post office, police said. Colon tried to collect it but was told he couldn't have it because he had no identification. He asked to have it delivered the next day to the apartment building where he lived, police said.

Meanwhile, police brought in a dog trained to sniff out drugs, and it hit on Colon’s package. A postal inspector posing as a carrier brought the package to Wollaston Manor, and Colon, who was standing in front of the building, signed for it, police said.

That’s when Quincy police moved in and asked Colon if he knew what was inside the package. He said he didn’t know, said he was abandoning it and allowed officers to open it, police said. Inside was 15 pounds of marijuana in a bucket that was wrapped in paper towels soaked in ammonia, a method commonly used to attempt to mask the smell of marijuana, police said.

After Colon was arrested, detectives went to the apartment listed on the package. Police said Colon’s mother, who is in her 80s, told them that her son lived there with her. Wollaston Manor provides apartments for seniors whose rent is subsidized by the federally funded Section 8 program.

A Wollaston Manor employee who would only identify herself by her first name, said Tuesday that the building management does not divulge information about tenants. She said Colon had been visiting there a year and a half ago, and that he had never lived there.

Court records listed Colon’s address as 91 Clay St. when he was arraigned in December. A document listing the conditions of his probation Oct. 17, when he entered his guilty plea, lists his address as Corey Road in Brighton.

Colon accepted a plea and sentence recommendation from the prosecution calling for a one-year suspended jail sentence and probation until Oct. 14, 2014.

“He has no Mass. criminal record and a minor out-of-state record,” David Traub, spokesman for Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said. “Three years supervised probation with a year (in jail) hanging over his head is about what we can hope to see with a possession to distribute Class D charge,” Traub said.

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