By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the Assembly Row area last week on reports that a man had grabbed several pairs of sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut and ran out of the store towards the train station.

Officers located a man matching the provided description walking into the train station along with another male and a female.

Police stopped the three individuals and informed them of the reason for the stop. They asked all three individuals for their names and dates of birth and learned that one of them, Herbert Smith, of Boston, had seven outstanding warrants.

Smith was placed in handcuffs, frisked for weapons, then transported to Somerville Police headquarters for booking.

En route to the station, an officer reportedly observed Smith moving his hands and attempting to reach his waist area. Smith was told to stop moving, and he replied that the handcuffs were tight.

During the booking process, nine baggies containing a brown powdery substance believed to be heroin was located in the right pocket of Smith’s jacket. Additionally, 12 baggies and a clear bag containing a white powdery substance in a fanny pack underneath Smith’s sweatshirt were also located.

The substances were tested and determined to consist of 21 grams of heroin and 7 grams of cocaine.

Smith was charged with drug possession to distribute and trafficking in heroin-morphine-opium, and booked on warrant charges of malicious wanton defacement of property, trespassing, possession of a burglarious instrument, construction of larceny tools, larceny under $1200, possession of a class A drug, receiving stolen property under $1200, carrying a dangerous weapon, shoplifting by asportation, felony daytime breaking and entering, and drug possession to distribute.

The other two individuals stopped by police were not charged and released by police.