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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1134041" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]Drugs, cash &amp; ... EBT card[/h]State welfare officials — despite a widely touted crackdown on fraud —&nbsp; never even returned the call of a Dedham cop who reported EBT benefits&nbsp; flowing to a house loaded with drugs and cash.Police Detective&nbsp; Bob Walsh alerted the state Department of Transitional Assistance that&nbsp; welfare benefits were being paid to a Dorchester woman whose live-in&nbsp; boyfriend was busted in a raid that netted heroin, cocaine, more than&nbsp; $65,000 in cash, an EBT card and WIC and MassHealth documents in their&nbsp; apartment and cars.But five weeks passed without a peep from the state — not even a&nbsp; return call to Walsh on the case of the couple, both illegal immigrants,&nbsp; according to immigration officials.A drug task force led by&nbsp; Dedham police raided the couple’s Dorchester apartment in late March and&nbsp; found $65,225 in cash inside a safe, a bureau and a shoe holder, as&nbsp; well as approximately 52 grams of heroin and 40 grams of cocaine,&nbsp; according to police reports.Odelio Sepulveda-Guerrero, 34, a&nbsp; native of the Dominican Republic, was arrested, and he was indicted last&nbsp; week on a slew of drug charges, including trafficking heroin and&nbsp; cocaine, prosecutors said.But cops report also finding an EBT card with the name of Sepulveda-Guerrero’s girlfriend.Cops also found Puerto Rican birth certificates, a Boston Housing&nbsp; Authority Certificate of Homelessness dated 2011, a Venezuelan passport&nbsp; and a Social Security card under a variety of names and aliases.So much cash was discovered inside a bedroom bureau that wads of bills were stuck behind the drawers, police photos show.<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/05/drugs_cash_ebt_card" target="_blank">Drugs, cash &amp; ... EBT card | Boston Herald</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1134041, member: 12952"] [h=1]Drugs, cash & ... EBT card[/h] State welfare officials — despite a widely touted crackdown on fraud — never even returned the call of a Dedham cop who reported EBT benefits flowing to a house loaded with drugs and cash. Police Detective Bob Walsh alerted the state Department of Transitional Assistance that welfare benefits were being paid to a Dorchester woman whose live-in boyfriend was busted in a raid that netted heroin, cocaine, more than $65,000 in cash, an EBT card and WIC and MassHealth documents in their apartment and cars. But five weeks passed without a peep from the state — not even a return call to Walsh on the case of the couple, both illegal immigrants, according to immigration officials. A drug task force led by Dedham police raided the couple’s Dorchester apartment in late March and found $65,225 in cash inside a safe, a bureau and a shoe holder, as well as approximately 52 grams of heroin and 40 grams of cocaine, according to police reports. Odelio Sepulveda-Guerrero, 34, a native of the Dominican Republic, was arrested, and he was indicted last week on a slew of drug charges, including trafficking heroin and cocaine, prosecutors said. But cops report also finding an EBT card with the name of Sepulveda-Guerrero’s girlfriend. Cops also found Puerto Rican birth certificates, a Boston Housing Authority Certificate of Homelessness dated 2011, a Venezuelan passport and a Social Security card under a variety of names and aliases.So much cash was discovered inside a bedroom bureau that wads of bills were stuck behind the drawers, police photos show. [url=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/05/drugs_cash_ebt_card]Drugs, cash & ... EBT card | Boston Herald[/url] [/QUOTE]

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