Two Webster men who went to the Police Station to bail out a friend on Monday were arrested after police saw them with a marijuana-filled cigar while parked in front of the station.Jason Barry, 22, and his cousin, Brian Cherry, 18, were arrested at 6:17 p.m.
According to a police report filed by Sgt. Gregg Wildman, the pair had come to the station to bail out Akeem Atkins, 23, also of Webster, who was arrested at 12:57 p.m. and charged with breaking into a car on Central Street.
Barry and Cherry were waiting in their car, when Wildman, who was in street clothes, walked by the car and saw what appeared to be a blunt a cigar emptied of tobacco and filled with marijuana in the car, Wildman wrote.
Upon questioning, Cherry said there was a black shoebox in the trunk.
Wildman said he found a digital scale and a plastic bag "containing a significant amount of green herbal substance" believed to be marijuana in the box.
Inside the car, police found tobacco emptied from the cigars in some fast food bo
xes, and both men were arrested because it appeared they were selling the drugs, according to Wildman's statement. In a written statement, Cherry took all responsibility."I came to the Ashton Police Station and this is when I realized I had my weed in the car," said Cherry. "This was not Jason Barry week. He had no idea it was in the car."
Both Barry, of 12 Village Way, and Cherry were charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of marijuana.
They were released without bail after their Framingham District Court arraignments yesterday. They are due back in court on July 9 for a pretrial conference.
The man they bailed out, Atkins, was charged with breaking and entering into a vehicle, larceny of property worth less than $250 and two counts of receiving stolen property worth less than $250.
...and the beat goes on.
