Massachusetts State Police said Stephen Marsden, 35, of Quincy, and Evans Klimavhich, 41, of Worcester, were arrested Friday following a “lengthy investigation” by their department and United States Postal Inspectors.
Two men were taken into custody this weekend in connection with a “large-scale Massachusetts drug trafficking enterprise” after authorities confiscated three kilograms of suspected cocaine that had been mailed from Puerto Rico to an apartment in Quincy.
Massachusetts State Police said Stephen Marsden, 35, of Quincy, and Evans Klimavhich, 41, of Worcester, were arrested Friday following a “lengthy investigation” by their department and United States Postal Inspectors.
According to state police, the cocaine was discovered when they executed a search warrant on the parcel after it was delivered to Marsden’s Cove Way apartment Friday morning.
Authorities also searched Marsden’s apartment, his Infiniti Q50 sedan, and a home in Worcester that belongs to Klimavich, who police name as a co-conspirator of Marsden’s in the drug operation.
At Marsden’s Quincy apartment, authorities allegedly found five firearms, 143 loose rounds of ammunition, dozens of THC edible packages, approximately 80 Xanax pills, a money counting device, and materials used in the packaging of narcotics. Police said a check revealed that one of the guns had been stolen during a housebreak in Oxford, North Carolina.
A discovery in the Quincy apartment led troopers to also search an office space rented by Marsden on Oregon Street in Fall River. There, authorities found four ghost guns – firearms without serial numbers, making them untraceable, assembled privately from unfinished and unregulated parts purchased separately or in kits – and large-capacity magazines. Investigators also seized several pounds of THC edibles and an ATM machine from the rented space and observed other apparent uncompleted ghost firearms in the process of being manufactured from unregulated parts, police said.
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