Police found man's act tough to swallow - and so did he

Boston Police report the arrest of a Quincy man while he was allegedly trying to ingest 14 bags of heroin to try to avoid arrest.

Police say officers on routine patrol on Glenway Street in Dorchester yesterday afternoon pulled over a car with an expired inspection sticker:

At the traffic stop, officers observed the suspect put his hand to his mouth and immediately start to drink from a bottle of soda. Right after observing this, officers observed a syringe in the suspect’s lap and observed him to appear to be extremely uncomfortable continuously rubbing his throat. Officers, based on training and experience, believed that the suspect had just ingested some drugs in order to avoid arrest. The suspect was removed from the car immediately started trying to pull away from officers. A brief struggle ensued during which the suspect spit out a medium size bag containing several smaller individually wrapped bags later identified as 14 bags of heroin.

Michael Crotty, 28, was charged with possession of Class A, possession with intent to distribute Class A, and possession with intent to distribute Class A within 1,000 feet of school zone. Two people in the car with him were charged with knowingly being present where heroin is being kept.

Innocent, etc.