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Man stopped for tinted windows in Roslindale faces gun and drug charges and deportation
By adamg on Mon, 01/05/2015 - 2:45pm
Boston Police report a traffic stop at Hyde Park Avenue and Cummins Highway in Roslindale on Sunday ended with the driver - already wanted by the feds for deportation - under arrest and two guns, ammunition, cocaine, heroin and peanut brittle headed for an evidence locker.
Police say officers on patrol around 11:45 a.m. ordered a driver to pull over to the curb because his windows seemed excessively dark.
Officers immediately observed the driver behaving erratically, waving his hands, and speaking very quickly in Spanish. Officers performed a brief visual canvas of the areas in plain view inside the vehicle and observed several indicators of possible aftermarket “hides” and compartments that officers know through their training and experience are often used to conceal weapons and drugs. Officers also observed two abnormally large bulges in the operator’s pants, and fearing the presence of a weapon, officers requested the driver step out and submit to a pat frisk. Officers determined that the bulges were the driver’s large wallet and a large sum of money.
Police say the officers asked the guy if they could search his car, and he agreed. They quickly found "several hidden compartments containing illegal contraband," including: Two loaded pistols, 48 rounds of ammunition, seven plastic bags with a total of 164 grams of cocaine, four plastic bags containing a total of 139 grams of heroin, three bags apparently containing heroin and several bags filled with coffee grounds and peanut brittle, "commonly used as masking agents." Also: Drug paraphernalia and $3,000 in cash.
Franci Manuel Soto Pimentel, 25, of Dorchester, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a loaded firearm and ammunition, trafficking cocaine, trafficking heroin, identify fraud and providing a false name after arrest. He was also issued tickets for excessive window tinting, driving without a license and providing somebody else's license information.
Police add ICE had already issued a warrant for his deportation.
Innocent, etc.
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Na na na na
Na na na na, hey-ey-y, goodbye.
What comes first, justice in the US or deportation?
"identify fraud" = identity fraud.
Does he get tried in Suffolk County for the laws he broke or is he deported to his country of citizenship? If the former, does he spend time in US jail before he's deported? If he's deported, does he ever get tried for the laws he allegedly broke?
Good question
I'd like to see him do some time, but not on my dime. I don't think you can tell the country he's going back to that he has to go straight to jail. So I think it's just ship his ass out and hope that he doesn't sneak back in. (And if he does sneak back, you know he'll stupidly come right back to Boston instead of getting a fresh start somewhere else where he's not already known.)
crime gun?
Can they tie his gun to other crimes?
Crime Gun
Hopefully BPD will "run" the gun thru the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network and local databases. It's unclear if this happens by default I assume it depends on crime lab resources basically money
Any EBT cards?
..in his fat wallet?
Adam scoops the Herald on this story!
No but
His car was probably illegally registered and/or the plates stolen. He must have stolen someones identity to register the auto, or maybe be paid someone off at the RMV.
Aaahhhh, the American dream!
Aaahhhh, the American dream! Well, almost.
Silly window tinting laws
The window tinting laws in Massachusetts are backwards, and make traffic stops way to easy. First, the state law only applies to aftermarket tinting. If you buy a new car with tinted windows, the law allows it no matter how dark it is. Second, state law sets the same standard for front and rear windows. Other states like California set different limits for your front windows and rear windows, which makes more sense. Following MA law, you end up with front windows too dark and rear windows too bright.
But the real problem is that the law gives way too much power to cops to pull over drivers.
Question
Why would the automobile manufacturers make, or local dealerships sell, a vehicle whose windows violated the law?
I mean, the automakers produce two different emissions systems for all vehicles, one for "California emissions," which are sold in other states such as Massachusetts, and one for the rest.
The real problem is driving around with shit in your car that you shouldn't have and illegal tint on the windows. No illegal tint, no reason for a stop. Unless you commit an infraction or have another equipment defect.
Such a shame that this upstanding citizen
was pulled over on such a flimsy pretext. Oh wait, I mean I'm glad that this dipshit is off the streets and not peddling coke and being a degenerate while feeding the habits of more degenerates.
one workaround ...
Met a private livery driver in Boston driving a super blacked-out Town Car. He told me that he went to an Optometrist to get a note saying that his eyesight was affected by bright lights and that the tint was medically necessary.
I've got legal-max-for-MA aftermarket tint on my car and it's pretty weak. On some days you can't even really tell that the windows are tinted - other days it does make the interior look pretty opaque.