State Police Recover Loaded Gun, Drugs in Taunton Raid

TAUNTON, N.H. - State and local police arrested a suspected drug trafficker in Taunton last week, seizing an illegal firearm, cash and drugs from the man's apartment during a raid.

According to a release from the Mass. State Police, officers from the MSP Gang Unit along with Taunton Police executed a search warrant for Edward Green, 33, at his home at 101 Whittenton in Taunton on June 6.

Police said Green was standing on the front porch smoking a cigarette when they arrived but quickly ran back inside the residence when he spotted them.

The chase continued in the home where officers followed Green from the first floor bathroom to the kitchen, where police said he "repeatedly punched and kicked at the Task Force members while stating that he wasn’t going anywhere."

Even after arrest, police said, Green continued to resist and tried to unsuccessfully to flee the kitchen several times .

It took four police detectives to carry Green into a police cruiser.

After searching Green's home, officers found the following:

• In the toilet in the bathroom in which GREEN had fled, a Coca-Cola can with a false top and hidden compartment, which contained plastic twists holding approximately 25 grams of a hard white substance believed to be cocaine and 13 red pills believed to be Ecstasy;
• In a living room coffee table, a baggie containing nearly 5 grams of a substance also believed to be cocaine and $732 in US currency;
• Under a cushion of the living room couch, another plastic twist holding nearly 3.5 grams of a substance believed to be cocaine;
• In the kitchen, a powder suspected of being a cutting agent to mix with drugs prior to sale; and
• On a rafter in the basement ceiling, a purple sock containing a Ruger LCP .380 pistol loaded with six rounds, one in the chamber.

Green was booked at State Police-Middleboro on the following offenses:

• Unlawful possession of a firearm, second offense;
• Unlawful possession of ammunition;
• Commission of a firearm violation while having committed three prior violent or drug crimes;
• Trafficking in cocaine;
• Possession of a Class B substance, cocaine, with intent to distribute, subsequent offense;
• Possession of a Class B substance, Ecstasy, with intent to distribute;
• Assault and battery on a police officer; and
• Resisting arrest.

He was expected to be arraigned in Taunton District Court last week.

Courtesy Photo / Mass State Police - The Massachusetts State Police Gang Unit, working with Taunton Police and Troopers assigned to the State Police Detective Unit for Bristol County seized drugs, a loaded gun and cash during a raid in Taunton last week.