RANDOLPH Nearly a pound of fentanyl was seized in Randolph and three men have been arrested on drug trafficking charges, police said.
Anyelo Medina-Jimenez, 34, of Providence, R.I.; Julio Carpio-Jimenez, 30, of Meriden, Conn.; and Juan Franjul Castillo of the Dominican Republic, were all charged in trafficking in more than 200 grams of fentanyl.
Castillo was also charged with trafficking in more than 10 grams of fentanyl.
All three men were arraigned in Quincy District Court Thursday and are being held pending a dangerousness hearing on Feb. 3.
Pace said that detectives from the drug control unit were conducting surveillance around 2 p.m. Wednesday in the area of James Tighe Road. They witnessed a suspected drug transaction and initiated a traffic stop.