By Dalia Diaz
You will read important and first-hand reporting of this investigation in this edition of Rumbo. This is an article of espionage and treason in the Lawrence Police Department from a mastermind, who was hired in the police department and used valuable information for a large drug smuggling operation. A person who betrayed her employer and law enforcement officials for her drug smuggling clandestine operation.
On June 20, 2019, Attorney General Healey announced “her office’s largest opioid trafficking takedown with federal, state, and local partners.” Authorities seize more than 25 kilograms of heroin/fentanyl and cocaine; 14 Individuals arrested following a large-scale joint investigation of AG’s Fentanyl Strike Force.
One of those person arrested was a lady by the name of Maricelys Carrion Ramos. Ms. Carrion Ramos is a civilian individual employed with the Lawrence Police Department answering 911 calls for the City of Lawrence. She was arrested with a known drug trafficker and boyfriend (Jocheiry Acevedo Hernandez) and charged in Ayer District Court, according to Masslive (Jeanette DeForge – 6/20/2019 8:44 PM).
According to AG Healey’s press conference report, Maricelys, age 34, was charged with Fentanyl Trafficking, Over 10 Grams (one count), Cocaine Trafficking, Over 200 Grams (one count), Possession of a Class A Substance (one count), Possession of a Class B Substance (one count), Possession with Intent to Distribute a Class A Substance (one count), Possession with Intent to Distribute a Class B Substance (one count), bail set at $15,000, and revoked due to a separate ongoing case.
Rumbo has found that there is a separate investigation by several law enforcement agencies to review Ms. Carrion Ramos’ actions and communications while working at the LPD as a 911 call taker into whether she was relaying information to her boyfriend, friends, or drug colleagues while on duty working the calls and local dispatches of the Lawrence Police Department.
Think of her as providing valuable information (though personal calls, text, and messenger to her drug smuggling and drug selling friends, boyfriends, and ex-boyfriends, out in the field in Lawrence, as she is listening to radio calls and police scanner and communicating with police officers in the field. All of this while she has her team of people selling fentanyl and cocaine in the city. Yes, we did say ex-boyfriend, too.
You will first hear of this news in this newspaper. On May 26, 2019, Ms. Carrion-Ramos had frequented an establishment in Lawrence by the name of D’Wendy’s. She was at that establishment with her boyfriend (the same person that was arrested with her in Ayer by State Police – Jocheiry Acevedo Hernandez on June 20, 2019. Another individual entered the establishment (her ex-boyfriend). She proceeded to argue with her ex-boyfriend and ended up leaving the club with Jochiery Acevedo Hernandez. Upon arriving into her vehicle she proceeded to strike her ex-boyfriends car several times.
The club owner notified her ex-boyfriend of the incident and he went out to check the situation. At that moment Maricelys Carrion-Ramos exits her vehicle and slaps her ex-boyfriend twice and he returns the assault to her as well. Her current boyfriend exits the vehicle and ensues into an altercation with the ex-boyfriend. The current beau holds the ex-boyfriend down while Carrion-Ramos further assaults the ex-boyfriend.
Upon the completion of the assault incident, the ex-boyfriend decides to file a complaint with the LPD. While filing the complaint, Carrion-Ramos is sending ex-boyfriend death threats through text messages. The ex-boyfriend notifies the officer taking the complaint. A police squad arrives at Carrion-Ramos location. Her new boyfriend is nowhere to be found. She relays the information of his name to the police squad taking the investigation and questioning. Once she proceeds to tell the officers the new boyfriend’s name the LPD searches the database and find that there is a “Be On The Lookout” aka a BOLO for Jochiery Acevedo Hernandez. It is at this time that the LPD knows that their employee may be involved in drug smuggling. But they say nothing and continue the assault & battery investigation.
On June 6, 2019, Ms. Carrion-Ramos is called into a meeting with her union agents and asked several questions about the May 26, 2019 incident. She is then charged with one count of Assault & Battery, one count of Threatening and Intimidation, and one count with Interfering with an Investigation.
However, before she was able to even defend herself in a court of law from those charges, she and her new boyfriend were arrested on June 20, 2019, with one kilo of Fentanyl and two kilos of Cocaine as well as some small bags of crack cocaine.
On June 20, 2019, as part of the major bust of drug trafficking, her ex-boyfriend as also arrested. Jhonny Mota-Rodriguez, who was the individual assaulted by Carrion-Ramos and her new boyfriend, was also arrested with major drugs of Fentanyl and Cocaine. So we basically have two boyfriends running drugs and the 911 call taker as the person providing intelligence to all the drug runners in the city via text, messages, and/or meetings. She herself is running drugs up and down the eastern seaboard.
It’s total betrayal and should send a strong signal that anyone else in the LPD breaking the law and taking advantage of the systems in the LPD, or anywhere else in the city, will be prosecuted and viewed as getting a stronger penalty/sentencing.
What many of the people, reading this news, would probably want to know is whether Maricelys Carrion-Ramos applied for her police department job knowing that she would use espionage and treason for her own benefit. Her espionage was used in a targeted field so that she could differentiate mundane information from targets of value to their own organizational development of drug smuggling, and of course, the LPD would not comment on this issue or probably discuss because after all, it is an embarrassment to its department, but mostly hurtful.
Carrion-Ramos knew that her new boyfriend was being sought after by law enforcement. So she will eventually be charged with Aiding and Abetting. I think this innocent looking young lady was probably the queen smuggler in the Merrimack Valley. She was right under the noses of the LPD and they could not and did not find out.
On June 21, 2019, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Massachusetts Attorney General, Massachusetts State Police, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, AGs Enterprise, Major and Cyber Crime Division, the AG’s Digital Evidence Lab, the Methuen Police Department, the Woburn Police Departments, and the Essex County Sheriff’s Department conducted a press conference to show that based on warrants executed at 14 locations in Methuen and Lawrence that resulted in the seizure of 13.7 kilos of fentanyl/heroin and 6.8 kilos of cocaine; four firearms, including a loaded Ruger semi-automatic handgun, two .22 caliber handguns, one .45 Glock, and several rounds of ammunition; and $98,860 in cash. An additional two kilos of fentanyl/heroin and three kilos of cocaine were seized during the course of the investigation that were produced as part of the two-year long investigation.
Do you know what law enforcement agency was not present? The Lawrence Police Department! Do you believe that other law enforcement did not trust the LPD because they did not know if more individuals inside of the LPD are dirty? Yes. Word has come down that this is the issue with surrounding law enforcement agencies. So while Chief Vasque is going around making sure his twitter pictures purely for public relations purposes when he should spend more time watching the individuals he has hired that stained his department’s reputation. Most likely this was a demand to hire by Mayor Rivera. Rumbo was able to request Carrion-Ramos employment application. It does not reveal much, but it does show that she worked for the D’Angelo Law Group in Andover, Lawrence Training School and the former City Councilor and now Lawrence Education Board Member Julia Silverio. They all were listed as references on Carrion-Ramos’ application for the job at the police department.
