Commonwealth v. Rivera

Welch, Richard E., J.

The defendants have moved to suppress all evidence seized during a warrantless search of an apartment located at 471 South Broadway in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Although I credit the two police officers who testified at the motion to suppress, I find that there does not exist a sufficient nexus between the drugs delivered by Alberico Gomez on Bradford Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts and the apartment where he was allegedly living some distance away. In order to justify a warrantless search of that apartment, based upon exigency, the Commonwealth must establish that there…