Hypodermic needles in her purse led to arrest in the park
By Andrea Gregory

  She said she was clean, but that did not stop police from giving Marissa Roy a set of handcuff bracelets to match the drug paraphernalia found in her purse and her car.
  A pain-clothes officer spotted Roy, 18, of Medford, with a group of other girls at Trum Field late Sunday night. The girls were headed toward a car. And at 9:30 p.m., there was some concern about just what the girls were up to.
  The office called dispatch. Shortly after that, two marked cars arrived on the scene. Police made their way across Trum field from Broadway. Roy, the driver of the car, was asked to hand over her license and registration. Then she was asked if there were any drugs in the car.

  “She told us that there weren’t and that we could search it if we wanted,” stated Carrabino in the police report.
   Police opted to check her handbag, which she willing handed over. Police recovered two syringes that Roy had allegedly stashed in her bag, but insisted she was not a user, according to police records.
   “She insisted that she ‘was clean,’ and told us that she had completed a program,”according to the police report.
    Roy allegedly told police the last time she used heroin was three weeks ago.
    Police then conducted a search of Roy’s car where they found two more hypodermic needles. She tried to tell police those ones belonged to her boyfriend, according to the report. But those along with the tourniquet, cottons, and a cap used for cooking the drug will need to be explained to a judge. Police submitted the needles and drug accessories into evidence.
    The Medford teen was placed under arrest and charged with possession of hypodermic needles.
Lt. Paul Upton said police have been keeping a close eye on Trum Field after dark, knowing it is a likely spot for drug activity to take place. He said it was an order from the Board of Aldermen.