Press Release  Lynn Man Indicted in Connection With Trafficking Drugs Into Massachusetts

SALEM — A Lynn man has been indicted in connection with trafficking more than a kilogram of cocaine as part of an operation that brought in drugs from Mexico and the Dominican Republican to Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.

Euclides A. Lopez, age 51, was indicted Wednesday by an Essex County Grand Jury on the charges of Trafficking in more than 200 grams of Cocaine (one count) and Conspiracy to Violate the Controlled Substances Act (one count). He will be arraigned on the charges in Salem Superior Court on June 20.

Lopez was one of 20 individuals arrested during a joint federal- state takedown by State Police assigned to the AG’s Office, the New England Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the Lynn Police Department on Dec. 13, 2016 when authorities seized more than $500,000 in cash, luxury vehicles, firearms, cocaine and heroin. During the execution of a search warrant at Lopez’s apartment in Lynn, authorities seized more than one kilogram of cocaine, $10,810 in cash, jewelry and a scale used to measure cocaine.

This investigation is ongoing. These charges are allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Cesar Vega, of AG Healey’s Enterprise, Major and Cyber Crimes Division. The investigation is being conducted by State Police assigned to the AG’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), with assistance from Lynn Police and the AG’s Digital Evidence Lab.

###