Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Investigators found cocaine, heroin, pills and marijuana in a home that had previously been raided in January, according to a police report.
An East Broadway home recently experienced its second drug bust in three months, according to a Somerville police report. Somerville police on May 1 found cocaine, heroin, marijuana, Suboxone pills and drug paraphernalia at 164 Broadway, according to the report. On January 30, police conducted a drug raid at the same home, allegedly finding marijuana, ammunition and holsters. According to the police report, investigators had put the home under surveillance on May 1, and they observed a 19 year-old Chelsea man, McKenny Pierre, conduct what looked like drug deals with a "notorious heroin user" and a 22-year-old Somerville resident, Dillon Hughes, of 19 Hancock St. When police pulled over Hughes at 366 Broadway, they found three baggies of …
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-71.085873
164 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The alleged drug dealer was selling the drugs in East Somerville, according to a Somerville police report.
An alleged drug dealer was caught with 10 baggies of cocaine and two baggies of heroin hidden in his prosthetic leg, according to allegations in a Somerville police report. The report says Imran Laltaprasad, 29, of Quincy, was arrested on March 1 at about 3 p.m. after the Somerville Police Department Drug Control Unit, conducting surveillance in East Somerville, observed him making a drug deal. Detectives had observed a 54 year-old Somerville woman, Maryann Zeletsky, of 18B Broadway, get into Laltaprasad's Mercedes at the intersection of Perkins and Brighton streets, just over the Somerville border in Charlestown, the report says. The car did "the proverbial trip around the block," the report says, referring to a technique drug dealers use…
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-71.078553
18 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A Roslindale man was caught with Percocet pills, according to a police report.
Somerville police, after putting an East Broadway residence under surveillanc, arrested a 25-year-old Roslindale man Friday on charges of drug possession. Bryan Espinal was arrested near the intersection of Illinois Avenue and Broadway at about 12:40 p.m., according to a police report. The report says the Somerville Police Department Drug Control Unit was conducing surveillance of a residence around the area of Broadway and Franklin Street. The surveillance was part of an ongoing investigation into illegal drug activity, according to the report. Investigators watched Espinal go into the residence and then leave, according to the report. He matched the description, given by a confidential source, as an individual involved in drug …
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-71.083385
Illinois Ave & Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The arrests followed a traffic stop in Brighton Saturday morning.
A Somerville was among the six people arrested early Saturday morning following state police traffic stop in Brighton that allegedly uncovered cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and assorted drug paraphernalia. Cameron Linehan, 22, of Somerville, was charged with possession to distribute methamphetamine, possession to distribute cocaine, possession to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to violate the drug laws, according to an announcement from state police. According to the announcement, at 3:45 a.m. Saturday, Trooper Matthew Clark of the state police barracks in Brighton stopped a motor vehicle for speeding and failing to stop for a stop sign on Rugg Road in Brighton. The operator, Brian Poitras, 27, of Lynn, was arrested after a …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Arrests made by the Somerville Police Department from Oct. 23 to Oct. 28. Please remember that the charges listed below do not indicate a conviction. On Oct. 23, Jimmy-John Gilbert, 46, of 48 Hudson St., was arrested at that address and charged with assault and battery. On Oct 28, Dirie Adan, 19, of Cambridge, was arrested on Packard Avenue and charged with assault and battery on a police officer and disorderly conduct. At the same time, Zaccaria Adan, 20, of Cambridge, was arrested on Packard Avenue and charged with resisting arrest, trespassing and disorderly conduct. On Oct. 23, Joseph Perez, 35, of 457 Somerville Ave., was arrested at 400 Somerville Ave. and charged with receiving stolen property. Selling drugs for a box of copper: On …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
A 24-year-old Somerville resident had a history of breaking into cars, according to a police report.
A man who was accused, in June, of leading police on a car chase that ended in a crash was arrested again on Oct. 5 and charged with drug possession. According to a police report, police also think he may have been looking for cars to break into. Firefighters in Teele Square observed the man, 24-year-old Michael Splaine, of 28 High St., checking car doors on Newbury Street at about 6:20 p.m., according to a police report. When police caught up with Splaine on Broadway they recognized him as the same man allegedly involved in the June car chase, and the police report says he had a history of breaking into cars and using drugs. When police stopped him on Broadway, they found a syringe and an open cigarette box with a knotted bag inside, …
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-71.129097
1214 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The Randolph woman told police the cash couldn't fit in her pocket, according to a police report. She was also charged with forging a vehicle registration sticker.
Police arrested a Randolph woman Monday who had nearly $800 in cash stuffed in her underwear, a bottle of Suboxone pills and a counterfeit vehicle inspection sticker, according to allegations in a Somerville police report. According to the report, an officer patrolling the Home Depot parking lot at around 12:40 p.m. encountered a 2000 Ford Windstar van that, according to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, had failed its inspection, but the car had a seemingly valid inspection sticker on it. When police pulled the van over, they noticed that the driver, Rowena Golay, 56, seemed nervous and her hand was shaking. When they planned to arrest her on a charge of having a forged RMV document, police asked the passenger, Justin White, 30, of Boston, …
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-71.085995
775 McGrath Hwy, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
On Sept. 28, detectives arrested three men on drug charges in the parking lot of Home Depot, according to a police report.
Undercover detectives on Friday arrested three men in the parking lot of Home Depot on drug charges, according to a Somerville police report. One of the men allegedly had about 27 baggies of heroin in addition to marijuana, the report says. The report calls the Home Depot parking lot a narcotics "hot spot," and it says detectives had perviously observed people shooting up in a parked car there. At about 3 p.m. on Friday, undercover detectives who had set up surveillance in the area watched as one car pulled into the parking lot, according to the police report. Detectives observed the occupant, identified as Liam Higgins, 37, of Boston, talk on the cell phone and hold up a hypodermic needle, the report says. Soon, a second car parked near …
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Home Depot
75 Mystic Ave, Somerville, MA
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
A Norfolk Street resident has been accused of dealing Percocet, according to a police report.
Somerville police and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the ATF, arrested a Somerville man on Sept. 11 after observing a drug deal in the parking lot of Target, according to allegations in a Somerville police report. According to the report, Somerville police and the AFT conducted a weeks-long investigation into Filipos Yeman Moba, 28, of 432 Norkolk St., who was allegedly involved in dealing Percocet pills in Somerville and Malden. The report says that as part of the investigation, which is ongoing, investigators observed Moba making several drug transactions during August, and as a result they received a federal search warrant for his Norfolk Street apartment. According to the report, police and ATF …
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Target
180 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA
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432 Norfolk St, Somerville, MA
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
The sheriff's officer was pressuring an inmate for money and drugs and conducted a drug transaction with an undercover state trooper, according to the district attorney's office.
Michael Dell'Isola, 52, of Somerville, a sergeant with the Middlesex County Sheriff's Department, was found guilty Wednesday on charges that he received money and cocaine from an undercover state trooper, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Dell'Isola was found guilty after a six-day jury trial in Middlesex Superior Court, the announcement says. According to a statement from Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard Leone, "This defendant abused his position of authority by participating in illegal drug activities while on duty as a sergeant in the Middlesex Sheriff's Department." According to the DA's office, Dell'Isola was pressuring an inmate to provide him with money and cocaine, and in an …
Jason
9:09 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013
Thanks guys. Please keep up the good work. more ›