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Article: 33 held in Theater District sweep ; Police posed as drug buyers for months
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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They worked the Theater District, selling crack cocaine to club-
goers, nervous tourists looking to score, and local addicts. But in
with the mix of potential customers were undercover teams of Boston
police officers and state troopers, who for months posed as buyers
and gathered information.
Yesterday, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced
the arrests of 33 people on drug charges. Suspects ranged in age
from 14 to 54 and included a woman from Framingham, a homeless man,
and several people recently incarcerated on other charges.
Davis said the arrests will probably affect the level of crime in
some neighborhoods, because many of the suspects "sell dangerous