When police officers on patrol in Boston on Wednesday morning saw a man driving who they knew did not have a valid license, they pulled him over and ended up recovering 53 grams of fentanyl, police said.
Francis Santos-Arias, 20, of Roxbury was arrested around 9:30 a.m. near 39 Mount Pleasant Ave. in Roxbury, Boston police said in a statement Friday.
When officers saw Santos-Arias, they performed a traffic stop. The officers removed Santos-Arias from the car and allegedly discovered several plastic bags of fentanyl with a combined weight of about 53 grams, police said.
Santos-Arias was arrested and charged with trafficking a Class A drug and operating a motor vehicle after revocation or suspension, police said. He was arraigned in the Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court on Friday morning.
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He was taken to the Nashua Street jail on $10,000 bail, according to a clerk at the court in Roxbury. He is next scheduled to appear in court Dec. 19, she said.
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