BOSTON, Dec. 10, 2011—A Roxbury man freed from a five-year prison term amid an ongoing probe of the state’s former drug testing facility was back in court today after allegedly supplying crack cocaine to a drug dealer, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

LOUIS ANTHONY WILLIAMS (D.O.B. 11/12/82) was arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court today on a charge of distributing a Class B substance as a second or subsequent offense. The charge follows four prior drug distribution convictions, including one in Suffolk Superior Court for which he was sentenced to five years in state prison but was released because the chemist who tested the drugs is now under investigation.

Assistant District Attorney Spencer Lord, previously assigned to the Boston Municipal Court but now a member of Conley’s DPH lab crisis task force, recommended that Williams be held on $20,000 cash bail on the new case and that his bail on the Superior Court case. Judge Thomas Horgan set bail at $15,000 and held Williams without bail on the open case.

Williams appeared in Superior Court on Oct. 22 on a motion to stay his sentence on a 2011 cocaine trafficking conviction. That motion was successful and he was released on $250 cash bail with orders to wear a GPS device and abide by a curfew of 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

On Saturday, plainclothes Boston Police officers in the area of Tufts Medical Center were approached by RAYSHAWN MORRIS (D.O.B. 8/22/75) of Jamaica Plain, who told them he could obtain drugs for them. Morris used the officers’ cell phone and contacted a man later identified as Williams.

Officers joined Morris and walked to the area of Washington Street and William E. Mullins Way. There, they watched as Morris provided Williams with $50 in pre-marked buy money. Williams in turn provided Morris with three plastic bags of a substance that field tested positive for crack cocaine.

Additional officers moved in and placed both men under arrest. Williams was carrying $912 at the time of his arrest, including the officers’ marked bills. He allegedly tried to discard his phone, which still had the officers’ cell phone number in its call log.

Morris was also arraigned in the BMC today and was held without bail for allegedly violating the terms of his probation on an earlier drug conviction. Both he and Williams will return to court on Jan. 10.

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