Months After Fake Meth Deal Sale, Concord Man Charged

CONCORD, NH — A homeless man is facing a felony drug sale charge in Merrimack County Superior Court. Back on March 29, 2019, a Concord police detective working in an undercover capacity arranged to purchase methamphetamine via a Facebook profile labeled "Samantha Lam," according to an affidavit. An individual requested the detective meet them outside an apartment building on North Spring Street, across the street from a small park.

The detective was parked in a vehicle with another detective when a man arrived at the driver's side window. That man, the detective stated, "was positively identified used a CPD booking photograph from a previous arrest as Marcel Mason."

Mason, the detective said, handed the other detective "a substance represented to be methamphetamine." The detective "finalized the transaction by handing Mason a sum of U.S. currently from police 'buy funds' before they ended their contact," the detective wrote.

After the transaction, detectives "determined the substance represented to be methamphetamine was not methamphetamine," according to the affidavit.

About nine months later, on Dec. 11, Marcel Richard Mason, 34, homeless in Concord was arrested on a single felony sale of a controlled drug-substance represented to be methamphetamine charge.

Via his public defender, Mason filed an objection in court for the admissibility of a certificate of analysis in his case. "As grounds for this objection, the defendant states that he does not concede the composition, quality, or quantity of the material to the state laboratory," under his sixth and 14th amendment rights to the U.S. Constitution and Part I, Article 15 of the New Hampshire State Constitution, the objection stated.

Mason is due in Merrimack County Superior Court for a dispositional conference hearing on March 18.

Previously, Mason was found guilty of controlled drug: acts prohibited in March 2014. He also failed to appear in court on Jan. 27 in Lancaster on a violation of a court order and an arrest warrant was issued against him. Mason was picked up at the Speedway on Hall Street in Concord on Feb. 3.

Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the removal request process for New Hampshire Patch police reports.

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