Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and State Police detectives assigned to the Martha’s Vineyard drug task force Friday arrested a man they said was carrying 95 Percocet/oxycodone pills hidden in a seam inside the front of his pants with a street value on Martha’s Vineyard of approximately $5,700.
Thomas R. Wilkins, 20, of Oak Bluffs was arrested on a charge of possession of a Class B substance (Percocet/oxycodone) with the intent to distribute soon after he disembarked from the Patriot boat, a commuter shuttle that operates between Falmouth Harbor and Oak Bluffs Harbor.
Detectives armed with a search warrant issued by the Edgartown District Court stopped Mr. Wilkins about 5 pm Friday. “The warrant was to search Mr. Wilkins for Percocet/oxycodone pills, as Mr. Wilkins has been the target of an ongoing Martha’s Vineyard drug task force investigation into the illegal distribution of the pills on the Island,” police said in a press release.
Mr. Wilkins initially denied having any drugs on him, but eventually revealed he had a plastic bag containing the pills, police said. He was released on $500 bail Friday evening and arraigned in the Edgartown District Court on Monday where his case was continued until June 11.