A Medford man was arrested earlier this month in connection with manufacturing counterfeit pills as part of a “high-level drug trafficking scheme,” the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said.
John Dinius, 30, was charged with trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine, possession of oxycodone with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws, the district attorney’s office said in a press release. His arrest was part of a joint investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency with the goal of disrupting large-scale drug distribution efforts in Middlesex County.
Following a two-month-long investigation, federal, state and local law enforcement officers executed a search warrant in a Medford home on June 10, the district attorney’s office said. The search was focused on the basement of an apartment in which they discovered illicit drugs, counterfeit drugs and a pill press that can be used to make imitation prescription pills…