A Boston man accused of promoting medicine within the Mass and Cass space of the town has a 20-page prison file, in keeping with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Robert Smith, 56, was arrested on Monday after cops reportedly noticed a number of drug offers between Smith and two folks.
Smith has been charged with distribution of a Class B substance (crack cocaine), second offense.
A decide on Tuesday ordered Smith’s bail on a pending Roxbury drug case revoked for 60 days, and the decide imposed $2,501 bail on the brand new case and a keep away order from the Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard space.
Boston cops conducting a drug investigation at Atkinson and Southampton streets shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday noticed what they believed to be a number of drug transactions between Smith and two people. The officers stopped the 2 folks, and recovered crack cocaine from each of them.
The officers noticed Smith experience a bicycle from the scene to the Nubian Square MBTA station, the place he boarded a bus to Roxbury Crossing. Officers then stopped and searched Smith, recovering two knives and $1,941 in money.
Smith has a 20-page prison file courting again to the Eighties.
“Our primary targets at Mass and Cass are not the many individuals who find themselves there because of dependency issues, or homelessness issues, or mental health issues,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned. “Our targets are the individuals who prey on them, by both supplying them with medicine or exploiting them for intercourse trafficking work.
“The area presents a complex set of problems requiring a multitude of responses from all levels of government and society,” he added.
Smith will return to court docket on Jan. 12 for a possible trigger listening to.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”