On a clear Thursday morning in the South End, Boston Police laid the groundwork for what would be yet another chapter in the city’s ongoing battle against drug distribution. At approximately 10:52 AM, as the workaday hum of Bostonians filled the air, officers with the Drug Control Unit of District D-4 witnessed a scene all too familiar—an alleged hand-to-hand drug sale. Raiquan Turner, a 29-year-old Woburn resident, found himself at the center of the officers’ attention as he ambled from Northampton Street towards Washington Street after the transaction, as mentioned on the Boston Police Department website.
The details of the arrest, as chronicled by the Boston Police Department, note that a marked cruiser swept in to intercept Turner at the crossroads of Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue. In the ensuing search, which is a routine affair incident to arrests of this nature, officers discovered fourteen plastic bags of crack cocaine. Turner’s arrest serves as a grim reminder that despite the years spent laboring against such unlawful trade, the problem persists, remains.
Charges have been filed against Turner, who is expected to face the grim visage of justice in Boston Municipal Court. The accusations tabled against him include Distribution of a Class B Substance (Crack Cocaine) and Possession with Intent to Distribute Class B Substance (Crack Cocaine). These charges are not mere abstractions of legal jargon; they are concrete declarations of actions the state deems detrimental to the community’s health and its very fabric…