(Updated) Cops: On-duty fireman carrying heroin
Credit: Boston Police Department
An on-duty probationary firefighter was arrested yesterday for allegedly possessing a bag of heroin.
Police said officers from the drug control unit were conducting an investigation near Columbus Avenue and Bray Street in Jamaica Plain yesterday when they saw a man walking and talking on a cell phone while carrying a plastic bag.
The officers then saw the man get into a car that drove around the block and then dropped off the man.
Police said the officers believed a drug transaction had taken place so they approached the man and allegedly found him with a plastic bag of tan powder believed to be heroin.
They then charged the man, Stephen Hogan, 24, of Dorchester, with drug possession. According to city payroll records, Hogan made $27.708 last year.
A fire department spokesman said Hogan was a probationary firefighter and was on the department for less than one year. He resigned as a firefighter Tuesday night.
Hogan is expected to be arraigned Thursday.
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