State Police Intercept Large Eastern Connecticut Heroin Stash

State police intercepted a sizable stash of heroin on Wednesday in their continuing drug enforcement efforts in eastern Connecticut.

State police have said they have been concentrating on some relay points that could lead to drugs being distributed to the rest of the state and at about 9 p.m. on Wednesday, members of the Troop D Quality of Life Task Force and a Troop D patrol Trooper conducted a traffic stop on a 2012 Hyundai Elantra for a traffic violation.

The traffic stop occurred on Route 171 in Woodstock near Peake Brook Road.

QLTF Troopers interviewed all three occupants and became suspicious that "criminal activity was taking place."

The front passenger, identified as Nicole Dumas 44, of 92 Powhattan Street, Putnam, admitted to troopers that she had heroin on her, according to a state police news release. Dumas then turned over approximately 50 bags of heroin pre-packaged for sale, state police said.

Dumas was arrested without incident and charged with heroin possession, and possession with the intent to sell. She was released on a $5,000 cash/surety bond and is to appear in Danielson Superior Court on March 15, state police said.

A second passenger in the car, Scott Duquette, 38, of 192 Providence St., Putnam, was arrested after troopers discovered that two warrants for violation of probation existed for his arrest. Duquette was held on a combined bond of $30,000 cash/surety. Duquette was to appear in Danielson Superior Court on March 2, state police said.

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