Milton man held after long probe by several departments By JENNIFER MANN The Patriot Ledger MILTON - The rest of the world paid little notice when police arrested Emerson Diaz Adams at his East Milton apartment.
It was another arrest of another drug dealer - an all too common story.
But police who nabbed the Dominican immigrant are now free to tell otherwise, with a two-year, multidepartment investigation wrapping up.
They say Adams for years supplied a gang of runners with a steady stream of pure heroin, often putting out $10,000 worth in street value each day.
His arrest - anything but run-of-the-mill, as part of a sting operation that netted over 350 grams of heroin and $450,000 in cash - could significantly crimp heroin trafficking on the South Shore, police say.
‘‘This is one of the larger street-level distribution networks, and there’s no doubt we put a significant dent in it,’’ said Scituate police Detective Lt. Michael Stewart, a member of the FBI’s high intensity drug trafficking area task force.
Quincy Detective Lt. Patrick Glynn called Adams’ arrest ‘‘a huge victory,’’ not just disrupting the group’s chain of command, but also dealing a heavy blow to its profit margin given the amount of heroin seized.
Glynn estimated that the amount confiscated has a street value of around $25,000. Stewart estimated it at more than $100,000.
Police say Adams’ network is believed to have peddled drugs in the area for at least five years, with distribution highest in Braintree, Quincy and Weymouth, but also reaching areas including Hanover, Kingston, Marshfield and Scituate.
Through phone records, they have identified more than 125 known or convicted heroin users who bought through the organization, Stewart said. They suspect there were hundreds more.
The investigation involved the FBI’s task force, the South Shore drug task force and several area departments: Abington, Boston, Braintree, Milton, Quincy, Scituate, Weymouth.
With undercover operations by the Quincy department’s drug control unit and controlled purchases by informants, authorities were able to slowly chip away at Adams’ network.
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