Within
days of graduating from the Middlesex County Sheriff's Drug Detection
School, K-9 Max, Somerville's new Police Dog has started to show what
he has learned. On Friday, July 24th, Narcotics Officers arrested Jamil
Taban of 1366 Broadway after observing him selling drugs to a
cooperating source near the Clarendon Hill Towers apartment complex.
After completing the transaction, Taban left the area in his rented
vehicle. Narcotics officers, who were working with the Somerville
Police Gang-Anti-Crime Unit, stopped the car on Broadway and called for
K-9 Max to assist them on Broadway near Clarendon Hill Towers. K-9 Max
and his partner, Officer John Tam, searched to car that the suspects
were driving and found narcotics and cash hidden in the car. The
seizure consisted of 39 grams of Crack Cocaine and 2.5 oz. of
marijuana, plus $735.00 cash.