Fentanyl dealer took a break to check car door handles on Beacon Hill, police say

Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing saleable amounts of fentanyl while checking door handles along Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill Sunday night.

Police say officers responding to a call about somebody checking door handles around 8:25 p.m. found Stephen Thomas, 56, in an alley. They detained him, learned he had two active warrants for felony breaking and entering in the nighttime and then, after telling him he was under arrest for those, searched him and found five plastic bags containing a total of 21 grams of fentanyl.

Thomas was arrested on the two warrants and new charges of trafficking of a Class A drug and possession of a Class A drug with intent to distribute, police say.

Innocent, etc.