3 Vt. residents arrested for drugs in Mass.

Three more Vermont residents have been arrested on drug charges in Holyoke, Mass., according to police department records, adding to a growing list this year.
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Holyoke street stops yield several drug arrests Saturday, including 3 Vermont residents Published: Monday, August 06, 2012, 3:25 PM Doron Tyler Antrim, The Republican By Doron Tyler Antrim, The Republican The Republican HOLYOKE -- Three more Vermont residents have been arrested on drug charges in Holyoke, according to police department records, adding to a growing list this year. At 8:31 p.m. Sunday, police pulled over the trio -- Jacob McAllister and Kayla Coburn, both 20, of 37 Front St., Apt. 1 in Bellows Falls, Vt. and Ashley Blanchard, 19, of 52 Merrill St. Springfield, Vt. -- at the Mueller Bridge Rotary on Hampden Street. Police did not return a call for comment on the arrests, but the records show the three were charged with class A drug possession with intent to distribute. Coburn was additionally charged with failure to use signal turning and stopping, and McAllister was charged with unlicensed possession of a firearm and ammunition. The arrests mark the latest instances of Vermont residents allegedly caught with drugs in the Paper City. Earlier this year: * Two Vermonters -- one from Brattleboro and one from Marlboro -- were arrested on charges of heroin possession and intent to distribute after a traffic stop; * A 27-year-old mother from East Dover, Vt. was charged with possession of 10 bags of heroin and reckless child endangerment because her child was in the car; * In February, three Vermont residents were allegedly found with heroin after they were pulled over on Cherry Street. In January, Holyoke Police Chief James Neiswanger said: “Unfortunately heroin is cheap in the city, often times people will come here to buy, (dilute or cut it) and sell it to support their own habits.” Police Capt. Arthur R. Monfette, speaking less than two weeks later, in the wake of the arrest of the mother from East Dover, said, "If there's Vermont plates in Holyoke, they're here buying drugs, they're not tourists." Additional arrests Saturday An second traffic stop Saturday led to the arrest of a Wilbraham driver and his passenger from Westfield. Police stopped a car driven by 34-year-old Denis Popa, of 13 Cottage St. in Wilbraham, near 636 Main Street at 8:41 p.m. Popa is charged with possession of a class A substance; possession of a Class B substance; operating a vehicle after its registration was revoked; and driving an uninsured vehicle. His passenger, 26-year-old Dmytro Barynov, of 57 East Silver St. in Westfield, was arrested on a default warrant and charged with being present where heroin is kept. A street stop at the corner of Sargeant and South Canal streets at 3:46 p.m. Saturday yielded the arrest of 41-year-old West Springfield resident Kristine A. Kostopolus, of 387 Riverdale St., on a charge of possession of a class A substance. Earlier in the day, police arrested city resident Dawn Marie Marshall following a traffic stop near the corner of Main and Adams streets. Marshall, 30, of 510 South St. Apt. 3R, is charged with possession of class A and B substances.