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Dorchester man charged as leader of a drug operation he allegedly ran out of his Walton Street home

Federal officials yesterday charged four men, including Jose "Grande" Perez Felix, a Dominican national who snuck back into the US after finishing a sentence for heroin distribution, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and oxycodone.

Perez Felix's alleged drug gang has ties to drug distribution in the Brockton and Pittsfield area - and to a Bowdoin/Geneva ring whose alleged leaders were arrested earlier this month. In fact, federal officials expect to wrap the two local rings up in new indictment expected against Djuna Goncalves, an alleged Brockton drug kingpin arrested last fall after surviving a murder attempt.

According to an affidavit by a Massachusetts state trooper who worked on the case, investigators were led to Perez Felix and his home at 26 Walton St. last fall during their investigation of Goncalves - wiretaps and phone tracking showed he was in contact with a Boston-drug dealer he called "Grande" - to the point of driving up to Dorchester to pick up shipments of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

The affidavit says Perez Felix regularly used his Walton Street home - and a Bowdoin Street chicken restaurant - to sell drugs to other traffickers. Perez Felix often made deliveries in a black 2008 Subaru Outback registered to his alleged lieutenant Yonatan Lara, one of the other three men charged yesterday.

Agents saw Perez Felix and LARA take "meaningless" rides in the Subaru – essentially driving the car around the block or a short distance as a means of shielding their transactions from law enforcement – and saw both men use the Subaru to distribute narcotics to street-level dealers and users.

On October 29, after watching the two men take one of these "meaningless" rides around Dorchester, they then followed Lara as he drove to Parmenter Street in the North End and do something risky, even for an alleged drug dealer: He got out of the car and left the engine running as he went into a building to sell some heroin to a user who lived there.

Lara, the affidavit says, quickly exited the building - and the Outback was still there, so he jumped in and drove back to Dorchester.

The affidavit continues that agents monitored several calls between Perez Felix and Edward Chapman, an alleged Pittsfield dealer who bought drugs from Perez Felix - he allegedly placed one order on a cell phone while taking his kids trick or treating this past Halloween. The two met at least twice at El Pollo on Bowdoin Street to conduct their business, the affidavit states.

According to the affidavit, on March 27, Chapman tried to get a discount on the drugs by complaining about the quality of earlier purchases:

Chapman complained to Perez Felix about the quality of his drugs: "all my people are complaining. They said they don't feel it, it's fucking garbage. It's weak, it's a fucking waste for me!"

Based on my training and experience and my work on this investigation, I believe Chapman's "complaints" about the quality of Perez Felix's drugs were, in essence, attempts by Chapman to get Perez Felix to lower his price. After completing, and complaining about, the March 24, 2019 narcotics deal, Chapman called Perez Felix on March 29, 2018 and again ordered cocaine and heroin from him. In particular, Chapman complained to Perez Felix, "the brown is getting weak. My people said it's not as good as the other one. It's okay but it's not like the first one that you gave me," and Perez Felix replied, "I give you a new one, so you can . . .," and Chapman interrupted, "all right, all right."

The technique may have worked: According to the affidavit, on the evening of March 30, Chapman drove to El Pollo from Pittsfield, waited until Lara dropped off Perez Felix there, bought a fresh supply of drugs from Perez Felix, then drove him back to his Walton Street home.

The fourth man charged by the feds, Anthony Tsina, would also drive from Quincy to Dorchester, in his white Nissan Rogue, to pick up fresh supplies, the affidavit says. On at least one trip, he brought his mother: On April 9, he parked on Bowdoin Street and waited for Perez Felix, who walked up to the passenger side, reached across Tsina's mother "and had a quick exchange with Tsina in the driver's seat."

Tsina and mom then drove off, the affidavit states - only to be stopped by a state trooper, alerted by investigators, on Freeport Street at Mill Street. The trooper had a valid non-drug reason to pull Tsina over - he'd changed lanes twice without signaling, according to the affidavit:

Tsina told Trooper Towle he was in Boston to get toys for his son's birthday, although there were no shopping bags or boxes evident in the vehicle. Trooper Towle directed Tsina to get out of the driver's seat. During a pat-frisk, Trooper Towle felt a soft "squishy" object that felt like a plastic bag on Tsina's left pants leg. The bag contained a tan powdery substance that appeared to be heroin and/or fentanyl. Tsina was arrested and transported to the State Police barracks in South Boston. The bag and its contents weighed approximately 62 grams. A field test of the contents was positive for the presence of heroin.

Innocent, etc.

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Down his throat and then locking him up so his last minutes on earth are comfortable, that is if he's found guilty of course... (I hope they don't let him out the back door of the courthouse so he can disappear).

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Wait a minute - I have been told time and time again that illegal immigrants in this country are "coming here for a better life" or "fleeing horrible conditions in their home country", or "seeking asylum" - surely this dreamer isn't a complete scumbag, multiple-time illegal immigrant, convicted drug kingpin selling deadly drugs from Boston to the Berkshires.

Time to wake the hell up people of Massachusetts - we have an immigration problem. And for all of the libs who sadly may have a family member addicted to heroin or fentanyl - this illegal immigrant is one of the reasons why. Fact.

To the law enforcement who brought this band or dirtbags down - thank you.

Now let's hope the judges do their jobs - and let ICE do theirs when its time to send this sh$Thead out of our great country.

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I thought you'd at least know what you're talking about, but I guess not.

Dreamers were never criminals - they were people brought here as children. Here's a brief article about them. It's rated as being comprehensible to people who can read on a high-school level - I hope that's OK.

Nothing in the proposed law refers to giving refuge to actual criminals, and even sanctuary cities have always said the whole point of sanctuary is to let people who have done nothing criminal here feel like they can trust the local authorities enough to root out the actual criminals among them. As I have mentioned repeatedly, all those MS-13 convictions over the past few years involved police departments in sanctuary cities, including Boston.

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The only thing disappointing here (aside from your snarky tone) is that this loser drug dealer was able to live in our city/country for YEARS illegally (after first trying to come here in 2000 - perhaps as a minor). And all you can do is get mad about the use of the term "dreamer". A term often used for people other than DACA children, BTW.

Oh and speaking about not knowing what you are talking about - here are some fun facts for you re: dreamers from the Center for Immigration - sorry to ruin your "dreamers were never criminals" narrative.

Almost 8-percent of total DACA requestors (59,786 individuals) had arrest records as of the date the systems were queried, which included offenses such as assault and battery, rape, murder, and drunk driving, among others.

199 individuals who requested DACA had 10 or more arrests. Of those, 51 most recently had DACA case status of “approved,” as of the date the systems were queried.

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I couldn't possibly be disappointed by you.

Center for Immigration Studies? A rightwing group whose main goal is to demonize immigrants? Hardly an unbiased source.

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The Newton judge who had an accused drug dealing illegal led out the employee entrance?

Forget all the ignored ICE detainers nation-wide in sanctuary cites where convicts are set free?

Forget the statistics on DACA requestors? https://www.uscis.gov/news/new-data-shows-criminal-arrest-histories-daca...

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But let's try to keep things straight, shall we?

I was referring specifically to a comment about Dreamers and DACA. The Newton case has nothing to do with that. The ICE cases have nothing to do with them.

I will stipulate (sorry, do you need me to define that word?) that there are people in this country who are both not citizens and criminals. I write about them all the time. And even the Obama administration acted to get them out of the country (i.e., all those MS-13 arrests/convictions I wrote about stem from an investigation started in the Obama administration).

But that's not what the person I was responding to was talking about. She specifically referred to Dreamers, who are not the criminals.

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That is interesting. Why wouldn’t they deport the 8 percent with arrest records? It is on the uscis.gov website. I wouldn’t even consider it valid or possible otherwise. Could it be wrong?

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LOL

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We don't claim him but he is like a bad cold that won't go away.
Hopefully he will get a long prison term and deported...again

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