Commonwealth v. Stegemann

On September 13, 2001, Pittsfield police officers executed a search warrant at the 8 Oak Street apartment of the defendant, Joshua Stegemann. They found no drugs but seized cash in excess of $21,000, as well as a brown leather jacket that Stegemann had received as payment for cocaine at a controlled purchase on September 7, 2001. They also discovered several bags of cocaine and “crack” cocaine (totaling over thirty-three *293grams) hidden in the building’s cellar (the door to which was unlocked by a key taken from Stegemann when he was arrested shortly before the search).1 That same day, police…