Despite his creative knack for hiding pills, Somerville Police say they’ve nailed 23-year-old Gorbatchev Romeus with a litany of drug-related charges.
These include intent to distribute class B drugs, a drug violation near a school, and possession of a stolen firearm.
According to the police report, Romeus had been suspected of dealing Percocet pills for some time. Upon executing a search warrant of his 25 River Rd. bedroom on April 16, police say they found 36 30 milligram pills believed to be Percs stashed in an XBox controller.
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They also uncovered almost 50 of the same oft-abused pain killer tablets in an alarm clock, and discovered a handgun that was not only unlicensed, but reported stolen in Atlanta in 2014.
A small safe disguised as a Sprite can was also found in Romeus’s room, although the report does not specify what, if anything, was found in the Sprite safe.
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Romeus apparently had a habit of parking his BMW - in which police say they found 11 more pills after its seizure - in the Healey School lot, hence the violation-near school charge.
He was pulled over and placed into custody at around 11:30 a.m., before police searched his room.
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