Police Say Beverly Barbershop Was Front For Drug Dealer

BEVERLY, MA -- Police say a Rantoul Street barbershop was being used a ""drug-distribution enterprise" and have charged its owner with trafficking heroin trafficking fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, and possession of counterfeit money. The charges were filed against Wilky R. Gomez-Savinon, 32, of Lynn, after Beverly police executed a search warrant Design and Cut Barbershop and found 25 grams of suspected heroin, two ounces of fentanyl, oxycodone pills and a "significant amount" of counterfeit money.

Detectives from Danvers, Ipswich and Everett assisted police in the three-week investigation of Gomez-Savinon. He is being held on $100,000 bail.

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