Police say they discovered about 33 kilos of cocaine and almost 14,000 pressed fentanyl tablets, in addition to a major quantity of counterfeit cash, within the residence of a Springfield man.
“This very significant narcotics supplier to both the Knox Street and Sycamore Street gangs is a continuation of our efforts in arresting, disrupting, and dismantling these highly dangerous and lethal drug trafficking organizations, who drive fear and violence in our community,” stated Hampden County DA Anthony Gulluni. “With this interception of almost 14,000 of these pills, countless overdoses were surely prevented.”
More than a dozen of the members of a type of gangs, the Knox Street Posse, had been the primary bust of that county’s DA’s workplace’s new “S.A.F.E.” unit — the Strategic Action and Focused Enforcement Unit — Gulluni added in a press release, and that takedown led to an extra “lengthy investigation” that landed police on the door of 81 Bessemer St.
That’s the house of Alonzo Williams, 51, who on Dec. 23 appeared in Springfield District Court to be formally charged with possession of a firearm with no license, trafficking in fentanyl over 200 grams, trafficking in cocaine over 200 grams, trafficking in cocaine 18-36 grams and possession to distribute a category A drug.
Williams is being held on $75,000 money bail and is scheduled to return to court docket on Jan. 24.
Police had been granted a warrant to go looking his automobile and residence on Dec. 21. The subsequent day, police pulled him over and allegedly discovered 136 grams, or about 0.3 kilos, of cocaine on him. They then searched his home and allegedly discovered 13,900 fentanyl tablets, a couple of pound of uncooked fentanyl, a gun and about $190,000 in counterfeit payments.
It’d all be value greater than $2 million on the streets, in keeping with the DA assertion.
According to the CDC, the artificial opioid fentanyl is about 50 instances stronger than heroin, and, because the Herald beforehand reported, might kill an average-sized man with merely a dusting current in a dose of heroin or cocaine.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”