Crime & Safety
Drug Task Force Sting Nets Arrest of Mansfield Man
Police say Peter Finnegan, 22, faces numerous drug-related charges, including heroin-dealing.
Police netted a little more than cheap eats when they did a drive-through at the McDonald's on Route 31 in Vernon Wednesday evening, and a Storrs man is facing a plethora of drug charges as a result.
On Wednesday at about 6 p.m., members of the East Central Narcotics Task Force conducted a buy-bust operation on 22-year-old Peter Finnegan, a man described as an alleged heroin dealer in a task force news release.
Finnegan lives at 399 Eagleville Road in Storrs, police said. The sting took place in the McDonald's parking lot.
Task force members seized more than 2 grams of of crack cocaine, 30 bags of heroin, some marijuana and "other drug paraphernalia," according to the release.
Finnegan was charged with:
• Heroin possession
• The sale of heroin
• Operating a drug factory.
• Misrepresentation of drugs
• Marijuana possession
• Possession of drug paraphernalia
• Cocaine possession
• Operating a motor vehicle under suspension
Finnegan was held on a $250,000 surety bond Wednesday night, police said.
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