By Jim Clark

Based on information provided by a concerned citizen, Somerville Police Department and Somerville Housing Authority officers responded to reports of suspected drug trafficking activity in the Sturtevant St./New Rd. area.
A vehicle matching the informant’s description was stopped and its passengers were searched and questioned by police. In spite of what investigating officers described as furtive attempts at hiding something, small, individually wrapped amounts of what appeared to be crack cocaine were found, along with what seemed to be a crack pipe, police said.
Both the driver, Christopher Audette, 32, of Dalton, NH, and passenger, Joseph J. Beaucage, 28, of Littleton, NH, were arrested and charged with possession to distribute a class B drug.