Crime & Safety
5 Charged With Drug Trafficking: Worcester DA
Five people were charged with trafficking in 200 grams or more of heroin/morphine/opium and conspiracy to violate the drug law.
WORCESTER, MA — Five people were charged with trafficking in 200 grams or more of heroin/morphine/opium and conspiracy to violate the drug law, according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early. Approximately 320 grams of a substance suspected to be the synthetic opioid fentanyl was found along with $26,837.
Four of the five people were Worcester residents, one was from Fitchburg:
- Jony A. Dominguez, 33, of 637 Grafton St., Apt. 2, also was charged with four counts of distribution of a Class A substance. He was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Friday.
- Jorge L. Martinez-Encarnacion, 31, of the same address, was held on $10,000 bail. His case was continued to June 28.
- Gioconda Reyes, 26, of 60 Plantation St., Apt. 2, was held without bail for a dangerousness hearing on tomorrow.
- Sharina Maria-Reyes, 23, of 60 Plantation St., Apt. 2, was released without bail on a GPS monitor. Her case was continued to June 28.
- Tania Ramos, 38, of 127 Crestview Lane, Fitchburg, was released without bail on a GPS monitor. Her case was continued to June 28.
Investigators used search warrants to search Dominguez and Reyes' homes. They found about 200 grams of a substance suspected to be fentanyl, a large amount of U.S. currency, digital scales and packaging materials in Dominguez's house and more fentanyl and various items used to break up large amounts of narcotics in Reyes' house.
More drugs were found in four cars connected to the people charged.
