Commonwealth v. Luperon

Hely, Charles J., J.

A. Introduction

The amended indictment charges the defendant with trafficking in oxycodone, 100 grams or more, in violation of G.L.c. 94C. §32E(c)(3).

MBTA Transit Police officers found over one thousand oxycodone pills near the defendant in a bus. The bus had just arrived at Boston’s South Station from New York City. The officers found the drugs during a drug interdiction procedure in which all of the passengers arriving on the bus were detained as a group on the bus for about five minutes while a drug-detecting dog sniffed the luggage that had been in the stored suitcase…