According to a new report from the Boston Police Department, Dominican drug trafficking gangs dominate the heroin distribution in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) “2016 Heroin Overdose Report” provides data on trends in opiate use in the city.
An analysis of arrest data for Class A drug trafficking which includes selling heroin, morphine and synthetic opiates revealed the majority of individuals arrested in 2016 in Boston were not US citizens, and most of those non-citizens were Dominican foreign nationals.
Of those arrested for Class A trafficking, 65 percent claimed to have been born in a foreign county. Within that group, 84 percent told police they were from the Dominican Republic. The share of heroin trafficking arrests attributable to Dominican nationals is likely even higher, the BRIC report says, because illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic often use fake Puerto Rican birth certificates to obtain state identification documents.
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Daily Caller
23 May 2017
