QUINCY, Mass. — Two men from Quincy and Worcester are charged in a “large-scale Massachusetts drug trafficking enterprise” after state police and U.S. postal inspectors intercepted a three-kilogram shipment of suspected cocaine from Puerto Rico in Massachusetts, state police said.
Stephen Marsden, 35, of 100 Cove Way, Quincy, and Evans Klimavich, 41, of 4 Allison Circle, Worcester, were arrested Friday after investigators executed search warrants at their home, state police said .
Marsden was charged with cocaine trafficking; possession of a Class C narcotic (edible THC) with intent to distribute; possession of a Class E narcotic (Xanax) with intent to distribute; unlawful possession of a firearm (5 counts); possession of a firearm in commission of a felony; illegal possession of ammunition; and improper storage of a firearm.
Klimavich was charged with cocaine trafficking; marijuana trafficking; and the trafficking of class C narcotics (vape cartridges and mushrooms).
Agents and postal inspectors found the cocaine when they executed a search warrant on the package after it was delivered Friday to Marsden’s apartment on Cove Way in Quincy, which overlooks the marina.
Marsden was arrested and taken to the State Police-South Boston barracks for booking. He was held on $50,000 cash bail pending an appearance in Quincy District Court next week, state police said.
As part of the investigation, an agent with the Norfolk County State Police Detective Unit also obtained search warrants for Marsden’s apartment and his 2015 Infiniti Q50 sedan, as well as a residence at 4 Allison Circle, Worcester, the home of Klimavich, whom state police called “a co-conspirator of Marsden in the drug organization.”
A search of Marsden’s Quincy apartment turned up five firearms, 143 rounds of loose ammunition, dozens of THC edible packets, approximately 80 Xanax pills, a money-counting device and materials used in narcotics packaging, state police said. A check revealed that one of the guns had been stolen during a getaway in Oxford, North Carolina. Marsden is not licensed to carry firearms.
A search of Klimavich’s home in Worcester yielded another kilogram of suspected cocaine, approximately 50 pounds of marijuana, hundreds of vape cartridges, a quantity of psilocybin mushrooms and approximately $52,000 in U.S. currency, he said the state police.
Klimavich was not at the home when the search warrant was served around 11:30 a.m. Friday, but he arrived home in his car a short time later while investigators were present, he said the state police. He was arrested and taken to the State Police barracks for bond pending an appearance in Worcester District Court next week.
Investigators also obtained another search warrant for office space leased by Marsden at 7 Oregon St., Fall River, state police said. In that office, investigators found four “ghost guns”—firearms without serial numbers, making them impossible to locate, privately assembled from unfinished, unregulated parts purchased separately or in kits, and high-capacity magazines, state police said.
Investigators also seized several pounds of THC edibles and an ATM from the leased space and saw other apparent unfinished ghost firearms in the process of being manufactured from unregulated parts, state police said.
An investigation into the “ghost guns” is ongoing.
The investigation involved the State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Office of Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey, the State Police Narcotics Section and the US Postal Service. State police detective units from Worcester County and Bristol County, as well as the state police gang unit, assisted in executing the search warrants.
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