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| Police arrest Mass. prison officer in drug raid |
| By Fitchburg Sentinel |
| Published: 03/08/2004 |
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Police arrested a Mass. corrections officer and three other suspects during a drug raid last Tuesday at a Morris Street home. Andrew B. Chase, a 41-year-old recreational officer at the North Central Correctional Institute in Gardner, pleaded innocent in Fitchburg District Court last Wednesday to illegal possession of cocaine. Police Sgt. Glenn Fossa said Chase, a resident of 38 Pine St., Jaffrey, N.H., was wearing state Department of Correction clothing when members of the North Worcester County Drug Task Force and local police raided a 15 Morris St. home and found him inside. Steven O'Brien, superintendent of the medium-security Gardner prison which houses more than 1,000 inmates, declined comment last Wednesday when asked about Chase. Fossa said police used a search warrant to enter the home at 8:41 a.m. and "found what was characterized as a $40 bag of cocaine." Police Chief Edward Cronin considered the Morris Street residence one of the city's "nuisance addresses," which attract neighborhood complaints because of alleged drug activity. "Although the amounts (of drugs) were not large that were confiscated, these locations have to be addressed, and are being addressed," Fossa said. |
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