Commonwealth v. Monteririo

The defendant was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to distribute after a trial held pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. She assigns as error the judge’s denial of motions to suppress six packets of heroin and statements she made to the police, as well as testimony of a police officer at the trial recounting those statements. We find no error in those rulings and affirm the conviction. We summarize the evidence given at the hearing on those motions from which the judge made findings of fact concerning the suppression of the heroin.

On June 1, 1974, in the early evening, two…