An article in Wicked Local, Cambridge reports today that Toure Penn Poster of Cambridge, Massachusetts was arrested after police officers supposedly saw him engaged in a drug deal just after 9:30 a couple of weeks ago. The officer reported that he saw Poster on his bicycle circling and constantly looking…
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Two Holyoke Men Charged With Cocaine Trafficking And Related Drug Offenses
Kelly Arzate and Charles Berard, two Holyoke men, were charged Wednesday with cocaine trafficking and possession with intent to distribute marijuana after police conducted a “routine traffic stop,” according to local news outlets. A state trooper conducted the stop after midnight, allegedly because he noticed that Arzate’s license plate light…
Four Men Charged With Trafficking Oxycontin In Quincy Massachusetts After Being Searched on Suspicion of Breaking and Entering
According to a report in the Quincy Patriot Ledger a Quincy, Massachusetts police officer saw what he determined to be “suspicious behavior” at 2:30 in the afternoon in a residential neighborhood. The newspaper report says that the officer believed that two men sitting in a parked car were “acting suspicious”.…
Man Accused of Trafficking Heroin in Taunton, Massachusetts Being Held on Bail
Last week’s Taunton Gazette reports that Leonardo Sanchez, of Lowell Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island has been charged with Trafficking Heroin Over 200 Grams as well as Carrying a Dangerous Weapon. Apparently the police had been investigating Sanchez for over six months. It is alleged that he had been selling…
Massachusetts Teacher’s Aide Arrested, Charged With Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana, School Zone Violation
According to a report in Wicked Local, a Massachusetts teacher’s aide has been arrested and charged with some Drug Crimes and Procuring Alcohol for a Minor. It is alleged that the defendant, Jennifer Olsen, twice smoked marijuana with several students. It is further alleged that Olsen provided the drugs. Authorities…
Boston Man Held on High Bail After Arraignment For Cocaine Trafficking in West Roxbury Court
Police in the Weymouth and Cohasset areas have made their third arrest as part of a lengthy investigation into Drug Dealing Activities in those Massachusetts communities. Enrique Camilo of Boston was arraigned in the West Roxbury District Court on charges of Trafficking in Cocaine, Second and Subsequent Offense. His bail…
East Bridgewater Woman Facing Massachusetts Firearm Charges, Assault and Battery Following Shooting Incident at her Brother’s Home
Three days ago East Bridgewater, Massachusetts police responded to a call for a woman acting “out of control”. The woman, thirty one year old Kerrilee Zimmerman apparently went to her brother’s home, accessed a locked firearm in the house and started shooting. Several bullets went through a wall and hit…
Massachusetts Man Accused of Cocaine Distribution in a School Zone, Related Drug Crimes, Defaults
Last week Massachusetts State Police and Marlborough Police surveilled 21 Preston Street, the home of Joshua Chevez a twenty year old Marlborough resident. Once Chevez arrived home he was handcuffed. The police then executed a Search Warrant at the residence. During the search authorities located Drug Paraphernalia (digital scales and…
From the Perspective of a Massachusetts Criminal Lawyer, Anyone at all Impacted by the Drug Lab Scandal Should be Released From Custody
The recent Massachusetts drug lab scandal is proof positive that in Massachusetts there is always hope no matter how serious the crime. Whether you have been convicted or charged with any of the Drug Crimes in Massachusetts you should hire an Experienced Massachusetts Criminal Lawyer. A good lawyer can always…
Improprieties At Jamaica Plain Drug Laboratory Effects Thousands Of Drug Cases Ranging From Possession Of Controlled Substances To Trafficking
Annie Dookhan, former chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute (also known as the Department of Public Health drug lab) in Jamaica Plain, admitted that she “messed up bad,” local media reported Wednesday. Dookhan was referring to her mishandling and contamination of drug evidence, fraudulent alteration of chain of custody…