Boston police raided two residences in Dorchester over the previous week, seizing practically 100 grams of fentanyl and practically $90,000 in money from two males charged with trafficking the drug, the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated Wednesday.
In a Nov. 23 raid, members of the Boston Police Drug Management Unit executed search warrants on the house of Cleifit Cruz, 33, of Dorchester, the place they seized greater than 27 grams of fentanyl, crack cocaine, and $80,456 in money, the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated.
Cruz was charged Monday with trafficking fentanyl over 10 grams and possession to distribute a category B substance. He was held on $10,000 bail and his bail in one other case in Norfolk County was revoked, based on prosecutors.
Cruz is due again in courtroom in Dorchester on Jan. 24, 2025. He’s additionally going through fentanyl trafficking expenses out of Norfolk Superior Court docket and Quincy District Court docket, based on the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
In a Nov. 26 raid, Boston police raided the house of Wilbil Aguasviva-Peguero in Dorchester, the place they seized 72 grams of fentanyl, two grams of crack cocaine, $5,761 in money, and 7 rounds of pistol ammo, prosecutors stated.
Aguasviva-Peguero was charged in a Roxbury Court docket Wednesday with possession to distribute a category B substance, trafficking fentanyl 36 grams or extra, and illegal possession of ammunition, prosecutors stated.
He was held on a $10,000 bail with GPS monitoring and residential confinement if launched, prosecutors stated. He’s due again in courtroom Dec. 30.
Suffolk County District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated a 23% decline in overdose deaths in Massachusetts by way of June in comparison with the earlier 12 months is an incentive for all legislation enforcement and well being companies “to work even harder at reducing overdoses from deadly substances like fentanyl.”
“When we see a decline like this it tells us that the efforts by everyone involved are pushing results in the right direction, and we have to keep up that hard and important work. Taking fentanyl off the streets — and holding the people who degrade our neighborhoods by selling this deadly drug accountable for their conduct — is a continued step in that positive direction,” Hayden stated in a press release.
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