Crime & Safety
$100K Bail for Suspected Cape Cod Heroin Dealer
Suspected heroin dealer Wykeem Price, of Boston, was arrested on Cape Cod this week was held on $1 million bail.
Photo: Wykeem Price. (Credit: Yarmouth police)
YARMOUTH, MA — A suspected heroin dealer with a long rap sheet was held on high bail following his arrest on Cape Cod this week.
Wykeen Price, 29, of Boston, was arrested Tuesday in Yarmouth during a traffic stop. Police said he hid four bags of heroin and 12 bags of cocaine in his buttocks area.
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Price's criminal record includes 109 charges, police said.
He was held on $100,000 cash bail on several drug charges, police said Thursday.
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Police said on Tuesday, Price was a passenger in a rental car that was pulled over for a traffic violation. Officers recognized Price and the driver, a Harwichport woman.
Officers said the pair were acting suspicious, so a K-9 team searched the vehicle and detected drugs concealed in Price's buttocks area. Price was transported to the police station, where officers said they found the heroin and cocaine, along with a single prescription pill on him.
In 2011, Price was charged with threatening a woman with a gun.
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