Crime & Safety
Braintree Cops on Hotel Patrol Find Marijuana, $11,000 on Two Men
The following information was supplied by the Braintree Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Braintree police arrested two men Monday evening after they allegedly were involved in a drug transaction at the Hampton Inn on Wood Road.
During a check of the hotels on the road, detectives Mark Sherrick and Matthew Heslam saw what looked like a drug deal between two men later identified as Pierre Charles, 25 of Randolph and Exsaviel Pimental, 26 of Dorchester, Chief Russell Jenkins said in a statement.
Charles was approached in the parking lot and Pimental was stopped after he left "at a high rate of speed," Jenkins said. Police found $11,000 in cash and marijuana on Charles and a smaller quantity of marijuana on Pimental, though more weed was found near where Pimental left the hotel.
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Both men were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substances Act and Charles was also charged with distribution of marijuana.
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