BOSTON — Members of the District E-13 Jamaica Plain Detectives executed a search warrant Thursday morning that led to the arrest of a 25-year-old man and the seizure of firearms and narcotics.
The warrant was executed at approximately 10:35 a.m. at 567B Norfolk Street in Mattapan, with assistance from the E-13 Drug Control Unit and the B-3 Mattapan Anti-Crime Unit.
Officers knocked and announced their presence before entering through an open rear door when no response was received.
During a protective sweep of the apartment and garage, officers encountered Cornelius Brown-Bell of Mattapan in the rear portion of the garage near the boiler room.
A search of the garage uncovered a gray tote box containing a Glock 31 .357 caliber firearm with an illegal conversion switch, rendering it fully automatic.
The weapon was loaded with an extended magazine containing 23 rounds, plus one in the chamber.
A second firearm, a Ruger EC9S 9mm with six live rounds, was also recovered.
Inside a black Louis Vuitton bag next to the firearms, detectives located multiple narcotics packaged for distribution, including 30 smaller bags of crack cocaine, six bags of fentanyl, and a total of 840 grams of Class B substances.
Officers also recovered mail in Brown-Bell’s name, a digital scale from a vehicle in the garage, and observed multiple stolen dirt bikes and scooters in plain view.
The stolen vehicles were referred to the Boston Police Auto Theft Task Force.
Brown-Bell was placed under arrest and is expected to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court on charges including unlawful possession of a loaded machine gun, possession of a large-capacity firearm, two counts of possession of ammunition without an FID card, possession of a firearm without a license, and possession with intent to distribute Class A and Class B substances.
