Boston Police Department's Drug Control Units from Mattapan and Hyde Park have taken a 26-year-old Boston man into custody for serious drug trafficking charges. Franklin Mejia Martinez was observed in suspicious activity on Thursday, May 1, according to a Boston Police report. During a patrol on Fairway Street, officers noted Martinez using a cellphone and scanning the area before engaging in a series of brief encounters with various individuals in his vehicle.
The officers kept surveillance on Martinez, trailed his movements across different neighborhoods, and documented a pattern of short, sequential meetings that raised their suspicion of drug trafficking. After an observed visit inside a build on Dorchester Avenue and later Quincy, law enforcement agencies coordinated a traffic stop in Dorchester. The police report details that upon searching Martinez, officers found a quantity of narcotics including heroin and crack cocaine, along with a sum of money just over one thousand dollars.
Upon the arrest at Norfolk Street and Woolson Street, officers confiscated ten bags of heroin, fourteen bags of crack cocaine, and five bags of cocaine. The substances, post-seizure, weighed in at 20.5 grams of heroin, 14.2 grams of crack cocaine, and 5.1 grams of cocaine, as detailed in the police department's online statement. The associated cash found amounted to $1,039.
Martinez now faces legal repercussions which include trafficking of Class A and Class B charges. The drugs under his possession were categorized as being indicative of an intent to distribute. His arraignment is scheduled to take place in Dorchester District Court.
