Efrain Matias, the Worcester man who federal agents have charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, has a storied history of distribution charges in Worcester.
In 1996, he was charged with marijuana with intent to distribute; while awaiting trial on those charges in August 1997, (which were eventually dismissed), he was arrested with two other men and charged with marijuana possession, intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute. Those charges were also dismissed.
Then came the big one. In 2000, a 29-year-old Matias was arrested in what was heralded as a landmark cash seizure. Matias was arrested in his house with ½ a lb of weed; about $400,000 in cash was found at his apartment, another apartment, and a Shrewsbury storage unit.
“We’ve had a lot of complaints about this guy for a while,” said a Worcester police sergeant at the time.
That case led to a protracted legal battle over whether police had obtained the search warrants appropriately; after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts overturned an Appeals Court ruling and allowed the search evidence in 2004, Matias pled guilty and was sentenced to two years probation.
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August 2, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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