DRUG DEALING “PORK CHOP” GOES OUT OF FRYING PAN, INTO FIRE May 9, 2008 Despite his efforts to evade law enforcement, a drug dealer called “Pork Chop” found his goose cooked after directing a prospective buyer out of the “hot” Boston Common and into the Public Garden for a crack cocaine transaction – only to find that he was an undercover Boston Police officer, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. KEVIN “PORK CHOP” BRIDGEMAN, 40 (D.O.B. 5/28/67), of Cambridge was sentenced to three to five years in state prison after pleading guilty in Suffolk Superior Court last week to distributing a Class B substance as a second offense and possessing ten more bags of the drug on his person after the sale. Had the case proceeded to trial, members of Conley’s Major Felony Unit would have introduced evidence and testimony showing that Boston Police were engaged in undercover operations on Boston Common because of the large number of open-air drug sales there. On the evening of July 26, 2007, an undercover officer assigned to the Boston Police Area A-1 Drug Control Unit met two men in the Common and asked where he could purchase crack. The men told him to wait until “Pork Chop” arrived, because he had “the good stuff.” “Pork Chop” – later identified as Bridgeman – soon arrived and was skeptical of the undercover officer. “I don’t know him,” Bridgeman said. “I’m Chino,” the officer responded. “They know me,” he said, nodding toward the two men. Bridgeman asked if the officer had a “straight shooter” – a tube used to smoke crack – and the officer presented one he carried as a prop, convincing Bridgeman to make the sale. Before he did so, however, Bridgeman insisted that they move from the Common because it was “too hot.” “I’m not doing anything in here,” Bridgeman said. “I’m not getting locked up. We’ll do this in the Public Garden.” Once across Charles Street, the undercover officer presented Bridgeman with $40 in marked bills, for which Bridgeman gave him two rocks of crack cocaine from a plastic bag. The undercover left the scene and uniformed officers moved in. Upon taking him into custody, the officers recovered the $40 in marked bills, an additional $122, and 10 individually packaged rocks of crack cocaine in a rubber glove Bridgeman kept in his underwear. Bridgeman was represented by attorney Paul Carrigan. Return to the Press Releases page.