Suffolk inmate charged with dealing cocaine
Bars and guards are apparently not enough to stop a little cocaine trickling through the Suffolk County Jail.
Woldson Noel, 22, was held at Suffolk County Jail last summer on a pending illegal gun possession charge. He is now charged with cocaine trafficking, possession of a Class B substance (cocaine) and disturbing a correctional institution.
Noel was transferred to the Berkshire Jail and House of Correction and appeared Thursday via video before Judge James Stanton of Boston Municipal Court – Central, who held him on $5,000 bail. Noel is scheduled to next appear in court on June 6.
Noel, who the Suffolk DA’s office said has more than 40 entries on his criminal record, allegedly said over the jail telephone that he still had “stuff ” on him that was missed during searches and that he was making “four times the money” while in jail, according to the Suffolk County DA’s office.
Jailhouse communications are monitored in Massachusetts, with the Department of Corrections stipulating that “inmate acceptance of a PIN and use of inmate telephones shall be deemed as consent to the conditions and restrictions placed upon inmate telephone calls, including call monitoring, recording, call detail, and pre-recorded announcements.”
Following Noel’s alleged statements, jail personnel searched his cell and claim to have found “a white powdery substance inside a piece of paper” and a “large white package inside Noel’s property bag, which was under his bunk,” according to the DA statement.
Guards transferred Noel to a medical unit to conduct a strip search, during which they found even more of the substance, according to the DA’s office. The substance, collectively weighing 19.3 grams, allegedly tested positive for cocaine.