NH Man, Wanted In Boston, Busted With Crack: Cops

MANCHESTER, NH — A Queen City man, wanted on a fugitive warrant in Massachusetts, was arrested on Tuesday on numerous charges. Raul Figueroa, 32, of Pennacook Street in Manchester, was arrested on Feb. 6, 2018, for felon in possession of a deadly weapon-handgun, possession of controlled drug-crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and a fugitive from justice charge. The Special Enforcement Division of the Manchester Police Department reportedly waited outside an address on Pennacook Street to catch Figueroa on a warrant out of the Boston MA Police Department on a sale of cocaine charge, according to Lt. Brian O’Keefe of the Manchester Police Department.

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“Detectives knew he was wanted,” O’Keefe stated, “so, they sat on the address and waited for him to vacate the apartment to place him into custody.”

At just before 5 p.m., Figueroa reportedly came out, got into a vehicle, and left the area. The vehicle was stopped a short distance from his apartment and he was arrested.

Detectives then executed a search warrant of his home and allegedly found 19.7 grams of crack cocaine, three tramadol (opiate) tablets, $792 in cash, and a loaded .25 caliber handgun.

“The crack cocaine was packaged in 52 individually wrapped plastic bags when located in the defendant’s bedroom, along with, cash, pills and gun,” O’Keefe alleged.

Figueroa was charged and held. He was arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North yesterday.

Figueroa became a felon but back in February 2005, when he was 19, he was arrested in Dorchester on a gun charge and later, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm without a license and possession of marijuana. He was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. In court paperwork, the Boston Housing Authority sued in 2007, to have Figueroa’s grandmother removed from a unit due to his criminal conviction.

According to the Chelsea Record in Massachusetts, Figueroa was arrested in April 2015, on a felony warrant. He was also arrested in August 2016, on warrants in Chelsea, according to police. He was also arrested in Malden for possession of an illegal knife and drinking in public in April 2014, according to Patch.

Image via Manchester Police.