A 29-year-old Springfield man was arrested Tuesday after police discovered him allegedly dealing crack cocaine close to Mass and Cass, Boston Police said.
At about 11:34 a.m., officers with the BPD Drug Management Unit had been conducting surveillance of a person later noticed him “in what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction,” the division mentioned.
The officers on scene stopped the alleged purchaser and mentioned they discovered “a white, rock-like substance believed to be crack cocaine” in him hand. The individual was ordered to look in Boston Municipal Court docket on a Class B possession cost, police mentioned.
The cops then approached the alleged vendor — later recognized as Jonathon Turner, 29, of Springfield, Massachusetts — standing inside a bus shelter on the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Road, BPD mentioned. Turner was detained for “further investigation,” the police mentioned.
Contained in the entrance pocket of Turner’s sweatshirt, police allegedly discovered 101 baggage of a substance additionally believed to be cocaine, BPD said. The entire medication police mentioned they recovered weighed 122 grams.
Boston Police additionally mentioned they seized an “undetermined amount of U.S. currency.”
Turner was arrested and will likely be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court docket on prices of Distribution of a Class B Substance (Crack Cocaine) and Trafficking a Class B Substance (100–200 grams).
