Police: Heroin trafficker had drugs concealed in his car

LYNN – A judge ordered a Boston resident held on $25,000 cash bail after State Police pulled over the defendant and found approximately 26 grams of heroin hidden inside his car.Dalnovis Delarosa-Arias, 43, of 238 Warren St. #202, Boston, pleaded not guilty to trafficking in heroin; unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle; refusing to identify himself as the operator of a motor vehicle; forgery of a Registry of Motor Vehicles document; giving police a false name on arrest; and a marked-lanes violation.A state trooper on patrol of Route 107 Tuesday evening reported seeing a tire on the defendant’s Subaru cross the yellow lines while driving over the Belden Bly bridge. Running the vehicle’s plates, the trooper actually remembered the name of the vehicle’s owner from a previous traffic stop and pulled the vehicle over.”From my training and experience, I am aware that drug distribution networks will enlist subjects to register multiple vehicles to be used for narcotics distribution,” Trooper James Farrell wrote in a report.The trooper also reported he recognized the driver, and the driver had the same promotional posters in the Subaru as were in the vehicle the trooper had pulled over July 4.The driver told police his name was Javier Colon Rivera, and he presented a license saying the same, according to police. But the driver said the car belonged to a “Sara” whose address or last name he couldn’t remember.Police said the driver was nervous and sweating and also had two cellphones, a GPS and several empty water bottles – all items used in dealing drugs (the latter for swallowing drugs when stopped by police).Police and a K-9 unit searched the vehicle and found a hidden compartment containing 57 twists of suspected heroin weighing a total of approximately 26 grams. Police also reported recovering $1,062.Police arrested the driver and found his name was Delarosa-Arias after running his fingerprints.Essex Assistant District Attorney Brendan Kelley requested $100,000 cash bail. He said the defendant had no Massachusetts record but also no ties to the area and faced deportation to the Dominican Republic.But court-appointed defense attorney Barbara Keon said it was a very good case for a motion to suppress evidence, saying there was no reason to search the car. She suggested up to $4,000 cash bail.Judge Ellen Flatley cited “a strong question of the defendant’s identity” and ordered $25,000 cash bail.Delarosa-Arias is scheduled to return to court Aug. 14.