When officials arrested LaMar Cook in late October, accusing him of cocaine trafficking, it was not the first time in recent months investigators tracked shipments of the drug into the region.
To be sure, Cook’s arrest eclipsed others. He worked as deputy director of the governor’s regional office on Dwight Street. Prosecutors say he tried to receive delivery of about eight kilos of cocaine shipped to the office.
Yet there are 10 pending cases in Hampden Superior Court in which prosecutors allege someone sent drugs through the mail, according to Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni. Nine of them involve the shipment of cocaine in amounts warranting trafficking charges…