Booking a room led to a booking in jail
By Andrea Gregory

   A Boston police investigation of heroin distribution led a bust inside a Somerville hotel room last Tuesday.
   Nixon Andrade, 23, of Dorchester, and Michael Franklin, 29, of East Boston, were both arrested and face multiple drug charges following the search of their hotel room.

   Found inside room 702 was a long list of evidence, supporting the theory that police were hot on the trail of drug trafficking and other related activities. Seized from the room were two compressed ‚Äúfingers‚Äù (10 grams each) of heroin, 32 clear plastic baggies with brownish powder police believed to be heroin, one Nextel cell phone, one T-Mobile cell phone, three Ziploc bags police believed to be marijuana, two boxes of plastic sandwich bags, several plastic bags with the corners cut off and $1,359 in cash.
    On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Boston‚Äôs drug control unit contacted Somerville police to inform them the target of their investigation had booked a room at Somerville‚Äôs Holiday Inn on Washington Street.
At 8 p.m., police received a search warrant for room 702 through the Somerville District Court. Police believed the men inside the hotel could have firearms so SWAT was called to make the initial entry into the room.
    Once the defendants were secures, Boston and Somerville police entered with the search warrant.
Andrade and Franklin were both booked in Somerville. They were charged with trafficking more than 14 grams of a class A substance and trafficking a class A substance within 1,000 feet of a school zone. Andrade was also charged with possession class D substance.