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04-21-2015, 11:13 AM
The Associated Press
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NORTH ADAMS - A heroin bust in Northern Berkshire county where police say a woman and her 16 year old son worked as a team dealing drugs.
Police say they sold it out of their apartment until they were arrested Monday after a raid of their home yielded, according to police, about $16,000 in cash, about $4,200 worth of heroin, guns and various types of drug paraphernalia.
32-year-old Glendaliz Rios is charged with conspiracy, inducing a minor to distribute drugs and being present where heroin is kept. Her son, a student at Drury High School, is charged with possession with intent to distribute, conspiracy, unlawful possession of a firearm and improper storage of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
The North Adams Police Department worked on the case with Massachusetts State Police and the Berkshire County Drug Task Force. Monday's raid included the State Police Special Tactics and Operations team "due to the level of danger believed to be posed by JUVENILE#1," according to court records. Police say on April 10 a worker in the high school told police about hearing a rumor that Rios' son was planning a school shooting for the 14th, the day he was to return to school following a suspension. The North Adams Director of Police Services, Michael Cozzaglio says that rumor turned out to be "completely unsubstantiated."
The case began in October when police say a traffic stop in North Adams produced two people who had heroin on them and then described the person who sold it to them. Police later sent confidential informants to interact with the teen-ager and purchase heroin from him.
Police say they learned that Rios and her son would regularly travel to Holyoke, Massachusetts to get more heroin to sell in North Adams. Cozzaglio said characterized Rios' employment in Holyoke as a personal care assistant as a "mask", saying her real source of income was heroin sales, and that she had moved her family here for the express purpose of tapping a lucrative market.
According to police, Rios was stopped by an officer on Route 2 in the city on November 24. Her car was searched and turned up nothing. Police say an informant told them Rios' son told him that night that he would stop selling for a while because he though police were on to him. Nine days later, according to police, they were told by an informant the boy was again selling heroin.
Director Cozzaglio said there is no indication heroin was sold at the high school. He says student-aged children made buys at Rios' apartment on Porter Street, near the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. School Superintendent James Montepare told CBS6 News the case has nothing to do with the school.
Bail was set for Rios at $35,000 and at $200,000 for her son but as of Wednesday afternoon both were still being held. Cozzaglio described Rios' son as "a player" and said this is not a case of a child doing something under threat of any kind of harm coming to him from his mother.
Among the items police say they found in Rios' son's bedroom he shared with his younger brother:
- about 650 baggies of suspected heroin
- about $517 cash in a duffel bag
- about $15,387 cash in headphone case
- a .38 caliber revolver- a loaded .22 caliber revolver
- a loose .38 caliber round under his brother's mattress
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NORTH ADAMS - A heroin bust in Northern Berkshire county where police say a woman and her 16 year old son worked as a team dealing drugs.
Police say they sold it out of their apartment until they were arrested Monday after a raid of their home yielded, according to police, about $16,000 in cash, about $4,200 worth of heroin, guns and various types of drug paraphernalia.
32-year-old Glendaliz Rios is charged with conspiracy, inducing a minor to distribute drugs and being present where heroin is kept. Her son, a student at Drury High School, is charged with possession with intent to distribute, conspiracy, unlawful possession of a firearm and improper storage of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
The North Adams Police Department worked on the case with Massachusetts State Police and the Berkshire County Drug Task Force. Monday's raid included the State Police Special Tactics and Operations team "due to the level of danger believed to be posed by JUVENILE#1," according to court records. Police say on April 10 a worker in the high school told police about hearing a rumor that Rios' son was planning a school shooting for the 14th, the day he was to return to school following a suspension. The North Adams Director of Police Services, Michael Cozzaglio says that rumor turned out to be "completely unsubstantiated."
The case began in October when police say a traffic stop in North Adams produced two people who had heroin on them and then described the person who sold it to them. Police later sent confidential informants to interact with the teen-ager and purchase heroin from him.
Police say they learned that Rios and her son would regularly travel to Holyoke, Massachusetts to get more heroin to sell in North Adams. Cozzaglio said characterized Rios' employment in Holyoke as a personal care assistant as a "mask", saying her real source of income was heroin sales, and that she had moved her family here for the express purpose of tapping a lucrative market.
According to police, Rios was stopped by an officer on Route 2 in the city on November 24. Her car was searched and turned up nothing. Police say an informant told them Rios' son told him that night that he would stop selling for a while because he though police were on to him. Nine days later, according to police, they were told by an informant the boy was again selling heroin.
Director Cozzaglio said there is no indication heroin was sold at the high school. He says student-aged children made buys at Rios' apartment on Porter Street, near the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. School Superintendent James Montepare told CBS6 News the case has nothing to do with the school.
Bail was set for Rios at $35,000 and at $200,000 for her son but as of Wednesday afternoon both were still being held. Cozzaglio described Rios' son as "a player" and said this is not a case of a child doing something under threat of any kind of harm coming to him from his mother.
Among the items police say they found in Rios' son's bedroom he shared with his younger brother:
- about 650 baggies of suspected heroin
- about $517 cash in a duffel bag
- about $15,387 cash in headphone case
- a .38 caliber revolver- a loaded .22 caliber revolver
- a loose .38 caliber round under his brother's mattress