By Seth Daniel and Paul Koolloian
Eastern Avenue MVA
On Sunday evening, June 23, Chelsea Fire Fighters and Police responded to the area of 130 Eastern Ave. for a reported motor vehicle accident.
Responding crews were updated by 911 Dispatch that the vehicle had rolled over on its side and the occupant was entrapped in the vehicle.
The vehicle appeared to have struck a pole opposite 130 Eastern Ave. and then rolled onto its side and was up righted by several bystanders prior to the fire and police arrival.
Chelsea Fire crews from E3 and L2 under the command of Capt. Denning arrived on scene and immediately began extrication of the victim using the Jaws of Life.
The occupant of the vehicle was extricated within 10 minutes by fire crews and suffered serious non-life threatening injuries and was transported by Cataldo EMS to MGH Boston.
Chelsea Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Dealing Heroin in Chelsea Apartment
A Charlestown man pleaded guilty June 25 in federal court in Boston to distributing fentanyl out of an apartment in Chelsea.
Cruz Villar, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing for Sept. 16, 2019.
On June 22, 2018, Villar was observed by law enforcement in a hand-to-hand sale of fentanyl to a customer in a parking lot in Dorchester. After the sale, agents recovered approximately 11 grams of fentanyl from the customer and approximately $1,446 in cash from Villar. A subsequent search of an apartment in Chelsea that Villar had been renting—but in which he had not been residing— resulted in the recovery of approximately 87.4 additional grams of fentanyl, along with components of a drug press, a digital scale, two blenders, bottles of a cutting agent, and packaging materials, including plastic wrap and plastic baggies. In addition, Villar made regular trips from the Chelsea apartment to an address in Mashpee in a manner consistent with the distribution of narcotics.
The charge of distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl provides for a sentence of no greater than 20 years in prison, a minimum of three years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $1 million. The charge of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl provides for a sentence of at least five years and up to 40 years in prison, at least four years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $5 million.