DEADLY FENTANYL: South Yarmouth duo charged with Conspiracy to...

SOUTH YARMOUTH – Yesterday – Sunday, February 3, 2019 – Yarmouth Police plainclothes officer Nick Ambrosini pulled over a Nisan Altima on Run Pond Road for a motor vehicle violation. (Officer Ambrosini is a member of the YPD’s Proactive Anti-Crime Unit (PAC-U), a group of plainclothes officers working throughout the community in unmarked cruisers, often focused on enforcing Massachusetts Drug Laws.)

Yarmouth Police Officer Ryan Brule also arrived to backup Officer Ambrosini.

Inside the vehicle on the floor, Officers observed a folded up piece of magazine paper with a small quantity of grayish/white powder. The powder was determined to be the deadly drug Fentanyl, according to a YPD media statement.

The following is from the actual YPD media statement:

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine.

Pharmaceutical [Fentanyl] was developed for pain management treatment of cancer patients, applied in a patch on the skin. Because of its powerful opioid properties, Fentanyl is also diverted for abuse.

Fentanyl is added to heroin to increase its potency, or be disguised as highly potent heroin. Many users believe that they are purchasing heroin and actually don’t know that they are purchasing fentanyl – which often results in overdose deaths. Clandestinely-produced [Fentanyl] is primarily manufactured in Mexico.

Street Names:

Apace, China Girl, China Town, China White, Dance Fever, Goodfellas, Great Bear, He-Man, Poison, and Tango & Cash

How is it used?

•Intense, short-term high
•Temporary feelings of euphoria
•Slowed respiration and reduced blood pressure
•Nausea
•Fainting
•Seizures
•Death

Both the driver and the passenger were placed under arrest and transported to Yarmouth Police Department.

Both are scheduled for arraignment today in the Barnstable District Court.

Refer To Arrest: 19-99-AR
Arrest: JOSHUA L. SULLIVAN
Address: BRYAR LN SOUTH YARMOUTH
Age: 38

Charges:

CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE MASSACHUSETTS DRUG LAWS
POSSESS CLASS A HEROIN FENTYNYL

Refer To Arrest: 19-100-AR
Arrest: ELYCE K. BRASKA
Address: BRYAR LANE SOUTH YARMOUTH
Age: 34

Charges:

CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE MASSACHUSETTS DRUG LAWS

The Yarmouth Police Department continues to make significant violent crime and drug arrests and is committed to protecting our community and our citizens as we keep Yarmouth one of the safest communities in the region.

We work in partnership will all Local, County, State, and Federal Law Enforcement authorities to achieve our goals.

If you, or a loved one needs help, or you have information about drug distribution, violence, or any other crimes occurring in the Town of Yarmouth, please contact the Yarmouth Police Department Detective Division at 508.775.0445 extension 2134.

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