Massachusetts State Police bust alleged fentanyl, cocaine trafficking in ‘Operation No Love’

Mass State Police and other agencies have busted an alleged major fentanyl and cocaine trafficking enterprise in what law enforcement is calling Operation No Love Sixteen suspected fentanyl and cocaine distributors have been arrested after police executed search warrants at locations in Fall River Taunton Raynham Norton Pembroke and Falmouth During the searches law enforcement seized about grams of cocaine and grams of fentanyl firearms multiple high-capacity magazines hundreds of rounds of ammunition and in cash Operation No Love began last March when members of the Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Band launched a narcotics inspection into a drug trafficking organization in Bristol County An undercover trooper reportedly conducted nine drug purchases with a member of the drug trafficking organization With the controlled purchases as a starting point the investigative company used a combination of physical and electronic surveillance toll analysis and court-authorized electronic intercepts of target cell phones to identify the organization s hierarchy primary subjects communication devices vehicles methods of operation and sources of narcotics supply State Police wrote Investigators then obtained search warrants for locations in Taunton two locations in Raynham four locations in Fall River and one location each in Falmouth Pembroke and Norton On April the investigative unit made up of nearly troopers and officers executed the warrants The individuals who were arrested and charged were Yosef Ali of Fall River Jean Carlos Castillo Mendoza of Fall River Jorge Santiago of Taunton Jorge Arce of Taunton Neftali Torres of Taunton Christopher McLaughlin of Taunton Shawn Roias of Taunton Courtney Whitmore of Taunton Val Bettencourt of Taunton Brayton Crites of Taunton Andrew Williams of Raynham Sabrina Cohen of Taunton Lucas Guimaraes of Norton Brian Szakaly of Raynham David Brasil of Falmouth Mary Hunt of Falmouth Related Articles Massachusetts Trooper must repay Target put on probation without pay in golf ball theft episode Killer of Massachusetts State Police trooper gets split ruling from Supreme Judicial Court Ex-Massachusetts State Police sergeant located guilty in driver s license bribery scheme After Massachusetts State Police recruit dies MSP announces training reforms Person jumps from Boston University Bridge onto Storrow Drive Massachusetts State Police The joint operation last month was led by the Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Group Homeland Safeguard Investigations Raynham Police and prosecuted by the Massachusetts Attorney General s Office Law enforcement seized about grams of cocaine and grams of fentanyl firearms multiple high-capacity magazines hundreds of rounds of ammunition and in cash Mass State Police photo