Following a detailed three-month investigation, the Boston Police Department has successfully apprehended a suspect on drug trafficking charges, a statement from the department has reported. Yesterday, Stephen Jackson, a 45-year-old resident of Dorchester, was arrested by the City-Wide Drug Control Unit and the District C-6 (South Boston) Drug Control Unit on counts of trafficking and possession with intent to distribute narcotics.
Officers, after an extensive period of surveillance and intelligence gathering that lasted for several weeks, initiated a raid at approximately 11:30 a.m. at Jackson’s location on 15 Josephine Street in Dorchester where they discovered a notable quantity of various drugs the officers found forty-nine plastic bags of crack cocaine, nine bags of Fentanyl, ten of marijuana, along with a digital scale and drug packaging paraphernalia, and they even seized around $760 in cash. The narcotics were later measured, revealing twenty-eight grams of crack cocaine and four grams of Fentanyl, as reported by the Boston Police Department’s official press release.
The arrest has come at a time of heightened focus on the opioid crisis and the proliferation of street drugs that plague many Boston communities. Jackson is facing serious charges including Trafficking of Class B substances, which under Massachusetts law refers to crack cocaine, and Possession with Intent to Distribute Class A, B, and D substances, among them are Fentanyl and marijuana — drugs with varying degrees of social and legal consequences but underscore the persistent challenges law enforcement faces in addressing the spectrum of illegal substance distribution…