Police found cocaine and illegal guns when they acted on search warrants in Cambridge and Braintree on June 4, officials said Tuesday. Four people were arrested as a result who police say planned to deal the drugs in Cambridge and Somerville.
The search warrants, executed at 6 a.m., included a home on Lancaster Street, in Neighborhood 9 near Porter Square in Cambridge, where investigators found around 50 grams of “suspected cocaine” and drug paraphernalia and a loaded Smith & Wesson semiautomatic handgun.
As a result, the two residents of the apartment, Nasheed Battie, 44, and Tymeak Battie, 38, were arrested, said Middlesex district attorney Marian Ryan, Cambridge acting police commissioner Pauline Wells and Somerville chief of police Shumeane Benford in a press release.
The Braintree search warrant, executed on Skyline Drive, found the bigger haul: 211 grams of suspected cocaine and accoutrements and a loaded Ruger P94 semiautomatic handgun with a high-capacity magazine, police said. Arrested there were Foster Starks, 40, and Treace Macklin, 35. Starks tried to flush a baggie containing drugs down the toilet, police said.
Police also seized $23,000 in cash from the raid.
The Batties were arraigned in Cambridge District Court on June 4 and are being held until a dangerousness hearing set for Wednesday. Starks and Macklin were arraigned in Quincy District Court on June 4 and were found “dangerous” at a hearing Monday.
“Particularly troubling is the presence of illegally possessed, loaded firearms allegedly connected to this operation which increase the risk of violence for both residents and law enforcement,” Ryan said in the press release.
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