In August of 2019 members of a drug task force in the city of Boston were patrolling and conducting surveillance in a part of the city known for high incidents of drug distribution activity. Officers observed our client pick up a known drug user, circle around the block and drop the individual back at the…
Continue reading ›In September of 2020 members of a university police department were monitoring activity on campus consistent with drug sales. They contacted the city police department for assistance. Both agencies formed a surveillance operation during which they observed what they perceived to be drug transactions. During one of the deals the police saw our client, a…
Continue reading ›Our client is a college professor, tenured and with over forty years at the same university. He has fought addiction problems over the course of his life and has on several occasions been charged with drug possession. Last spring undercover officers were monitoring an area known for high volume drug sales. They observed an Hispanic…
Continue reading ›The defendant is a senior in college who was in Massachusetts visiting in September of 2020. Police in a Boston suburb, while on routine patrol observed a car travelling 50 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. Officers ran the vehicle registration and learned that it has been revoked for not being…
Continue reading ›Our client is an international graduate student in Massachusetts on a student visa. On April 30, 2020 Boston Police Officers responded to a radio call for a man trespassing in the boiler room of an apartment building. The caller met the officers and told them that the man was banging on doors and making unintelligible…
Continue reading ›The defendant is facing cocaine trafficking charges in violation of G.L. c. 94C section 32E. The mandatory minimum sentence is 8 years in state prison. The defendant was granted bail at his arraignment with conditions that he report to probation regularly and attend all court appearances. Several weeks ago the defendant went into default for…
Continue reading ›The defendant is an officer in a local law enforcement office. In early December he was seen entering and leaving the home of a known drug dealer. A drug enforcement task force had been monitoring and conducting surveillance of that location. Officers followed the defendant to a busy parking lot. They saw him park. They…
Continue reading ›Our client is a professional living in a Boston suburb. Last September he was visiting with a friend. A woman arrived at the home driven by a friend. The friend did not go into the home. Rather, he waited in his car, parked near the home our client was visiting. Seeing the occupied car, a…
Continue reading ›On October 23, 2018 the defendant was pulled over for a moving violation in a central Massachusetts town. The officer ran the man’s license and learned that his license had expired. He was asked to exit the car so that it could be towed. An inventory search of the vehicle was conducted within the parameters…
Continue reading ›The defendant is a case management worker for the Commonwealth who works with the elderly. Several months ago, police followed up on a tip that drugs were being dealt out of this woman’s home. The police conducted surveillance of the home and noted heavy foot traffic from known local drug dealers and users. One of…
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