LAWRENCE: City narcotics detectives, working with local and federal authorities, seized about 15 pounds of heroin worth roughly $500,000, two firearms and $350,00 in cash during a drug sweep.
Twenty-three people were arrested.
A major arrest in the operation was a Manchester, N.H. man, Alexander Dume-Santana, 35, who was apprehended after an investigation that started on Willow Street, police said.
Dume-Santana was driving a GMC Sierra pickup without a license, police said. After pulling him over at gunpoint, detectives found five individually wrapped kilos of cocaine on the front passenger seat of the truck, according to a police report.
As a result of Dume-Santana’s arrest, detectives then executed a search warrant at a nearby Allyn Terrace address. There, authorities seized two more kilos of heroin, two firearms and $350,000 cash, police said.
Dume-Santana was arrested and charged with trafficking more than 20 grams of heroin, reckless operation, driving without a license, providing police with a false name and as a fugitive from justice.
Dume-Santana has a outstanding New Hampshire warrant for sale of a controlled drug and two outstanding Massachusetts warrants, according to police records.
Seven kilos of heroin weigh approximately 15 pounds. The large amount of heroin yields roughly $500,000 in illegal sales, police said.
Dume-Santana initially gave detectives a false name of Nathaniel Diaz-Ramos, according to a report written by a Lawrence detective assigned to the city’s Street Enforcement Narcotics Unit.
