Wednesday, October 16, 2013
By: O’Ryan Johnson
bostonherald.com

A lucrative Revere drug operation which brought in enough cash to rent a “stash house” was busted over the weekend in a sweep that netted three suspects— two of them illegal immigrants, prosecutors said.

Two of the suspects drove up to the deal that had been set up with undercover officers in a BMW Z3 sports car, authorities said.

“This crew was successful enough in its operations to rent an apartment solely to store drugs and weapons,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said. “They brought a steady supply of a dangerous, addictive drug into this community, and now they’re going to pay the price.”

Jean Carlos Orfil Arias Tejada, 25, of Brighton and Enyer Osiel Martinez-Avalos, 24, and Rafael Maysonet-Pagan, 25, both of Revere pleaded not guilty at their arraignment yesterday in Chelsea District Court where all three were charged with 13 counts of distribution of heroin, two counts of trafficking heroin, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.

Judge James Wexler ordered Tejada and Martinez-Avalos held on $75,000 cash bail. Both were also held on detainers issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Maysonet-Pagan was held on $25,000 bail.

The arrests were the result of a four-month undercover operation by the state police assigned to Conley’s office as well as the Revere police.

Troopers made 13 heroin buys from the three-man crew over the summer, and arranged to buy 40 grams last weekend. Cops moved in after the sale and busted two of the men. Tejada was arrested at another location, prosecutors said.

During a search of the suspects’ homes cops found $3,000 in cash, 44 grams of heroin, scales, and a drug press. At a “stash house” on Beach Street they found a kilo of heroin and a .38 revolver in a suitcase beside a blowup mattress, prosecutors said.

The three are due back in court Nov. 15.

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