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Man Charged With Dealing Fentanyl In Tewksbury: Police

A man was taken into custody after detectives found him with quantities of fentanyl and crack cocaine, according to police.

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A man was taken into custody after detectives found him with quantities of fentanyl and crack cocaine, according to police.
A man was taken into custody after detectives found him with quantities of fentanyl and crack cocaine, according to police. (Shutterstock / Jaromir Chalabala)

TEWKSBURY, MA — A man was charged with trafficking fentanyl in Tewksbury recently, according to police.

Rusbel Agramonte Soto, 27, of Lynn, was charged with trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl and distribution of a class B substance.

Police pulled over Soto on Wednesday in the parking lot of a hotel on Andover Street.

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Detectives found 11 grams of fentanyl and 1.5 grams of crack cocaine and took Soto into custody, according to police.

He was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Lowell District Court.

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