A dumber version of Bonnie & Clyde suspected of selling drugs on the Boston Common targeted the wrong victim for a rip-off yesterday morning: an undercover BPD cop.

The suspects, Cheryl Tucker, 37, and Darryl Noles, 42, allegedly approached a cop who was standing near Park Street Station around 7:15 a.m. and whispered, “Give me your money. I’ll get your drugs.” The cop handed over folded bills - but Tucker allegedly took off into a nearby McDonald’s and did not return with any narcotics as Noles waited with the undercover Boston police officer.

A surveillance team working with the narcotics undercovers watched Tucker go into McDonald’s “without speaking to or interacting with anyone,” according to a BPD report.
When she came outside, Noles joined her and the two began to walk off with Tucker telling the undercover cop, “Someone will bring them outside.”

The cop followed the couple and asked for his money back and Tucker allegedly replied: “Get the (expletive) away from me.” BPD officers then surrounded the duo, pulled out their badges, and arrested them. Both were charged with unarmed robbery.

In 2005, the Herald ran a series on the startling open-air drug use on Boston Common, including an incident in which a heroin addict shot dope and died in front of a photographer. Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said that department has undertaken a massive anti-drug initiative on the park in an attempt to squelch the trade.

Source Crime 101 by: Michele McPhee

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