"Public works employee allegedly sold heroin out of city truck" by Evan Allen | Globe Staff August 02, 2014
A Boston Public Works Department employee was arrested Friday for allegedly dealing heroin along his route while driving a city truck, according to Boston police.
Kenneth Clark, 49, of Boston, whose city duties included street sweeping and dead animal collection, was under police surveillance when officers allegedly saw him get out of his truck to sell heroin to a woman on River Street in Boston.
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Just before 8 a.m., Clark got into a Public Works truck, and officers followed him through Wolcott Square, where he got out of the truck and then got back in, according to the report. Police continued following him as he allegedly made “numerous stops” around his route, until he reached the intersection of River Street and Edgewater Drive and a woman walked up to his driver’s side window.
Clark and the woman allegedly talked briefly, and then Clark got out of his truck and walked with her until they separated at the intersection of River Street and Cummins Highway, according to the report.
Officers stopped the woman and asked if she had anything on her person, according to the report. She first asked if she was in trouble, then allegedly said, “I have heroin in my hand.”
It's a common crime.
Police asked her whom she purchased the heroin from, and she said she bought it from “K,” whom she described as a city employee in a yellow vest. Police then arrested Clark, according to the report.
The public works truck was returned to the city yard. The woman will be summonsed to Dorchester District Court on a drug possession charge, the report said.
Clark is scheduled to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court on Monday, according to Boston police.
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Clark previously served five to 10 years in prison after being convicted in Suffolk Superior Court in 1993 of assault with intent to kill, according to Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley....
And yet he got a job at the Boston DPW?
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UPDATE: City DPW worker held in heroin case
