Two Brighton roommates were charged on Thursday with dealing meth out of their apartment, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Vincenzo Porfino, 43, pleaded not guilty to trafficking methamphetamine of less than 100 grams. William Nagle, 46, pleaded not guilty to trafficking methamphetamine of more than 200 grams and class B possession with intent to distribute, according to court documents.
As an employee of the popular Chinese food chain living in Mexico, Salamanca-Benitez was "in the throes of a gambling addiction" and struggling to make ends meet, his attorney wrote in court filings. His solution was to broker several high-end methamphetamine deals over the phone, leading to a drug courier taking a total of 30 pounds of the drug to an undercover DEA agent in San Jose and Redwood City, court records show.