Whose pills are those?

Officer Kevin Gillan was driving the Lowell Police prisoner transport wagon on Fletcher Street, at Bowers Street, tonight about 9:30 p.m., when he radioed for dispatch to send firefighters and a cruiser to a crash he came across.

Then he told dispatchers to send an ambulance, as a woman screamed in the background.

I was interested.

I arrived on Fletcher Street to find a white Hyundai Accent with front end damage and air bags deployed. A woman who was in the passenger seat of that car was being put into a stretcher by firefighters and EMTs.

Police were talking to the female driver of the Hyundai.

The Hyundai collided with a Honda, who’s 63-year-old male driver was calmly talking to police. A woman in her 60′s who was a passenger in his car was taken to Lowell General Hospital.

Bathrobe, Simpsons pajamas and work boots

That’s what Luis Concepcion, 53, of 1301 Middlesex St., Unit 5, in Lowell, was wearing tonight as he was led to a prison transport wagon.

I don’t think Concepcion was really prepared for the NEMLEC SWAT team that used stun grenades to enter his apartment and help Lowell detectives serve a search warrant tonight about 8:30 p.m.

Inside the apartment, police say they found over 100 grams of cocaine and about 10 grams of heroin. Concepcion, despite the swanky clothes, now faces a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison on a count of trafficking over 100 grams of cocaine.

He is also charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, and conspiracy. Police tell me they are also seeking a second person in connection with the raid.

Capt. Jonathan Webb didn’t want to elaborate much on why Lowell Police asked for SWAT assistance on this warrant, but he said the move was meant to protect both officers and residents.

Concepcion was also arrested in 2010, accused of possession of heroin.

In October of 2011, he faced a slew of charges, after police accused him of being drunk and refusing to stop for officers as he drove the wrong way down Pawtucket Boulevard with an open container of alcohol and presription pills in a vehicle with him, according to reports published at the time.

Concepcion was released on personal recognizance at his arraignment on those charges.

UPDATE: Luis Concepcion is being held on $5,000 cash bail. His son, Abraham Concepcion, 22, turned himself in at the Lowell Police station today about 2 p.m. He is charged with trafficking over 100 grams of cocaine. He will be arraigned Wednesday in Lowell District Court.

Gunshot fired at Englesby School in Dracut

It’s school vacation week in Dracut and there are no students around at the Christos Daoulas Education Complex.

Thank God.

The fact that it’s school vacation week and the complex is empty at night is reportedly why a drug dealer suggested a meeting with would-be customers in the complex on Tuesday night.

The drug dealer met the boys in the Englesby parking lot, ended up pulling a gun, firing a gunshot into the air, and then carjacking the two teenage Dracut boys who wanted to buy some weed from him.

I first blogged about this last night only moments after it was reported, but I’m swamped tonight, so here is my story on the matter now that I’ve talked to the Deputy Chief about it.

By Robert Mills
rmills@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — A single gunshot was fired into the air in the parking lot of the Englesby Intermediate School on Tuesday night as two teenagers were carjacked during a drug deal gone bad, police said.
Police said a 17-year-old Dracut boy and a 19-year-old Dracut boy told police they arranged to buy marijuana from a drug dealer they had met in Lowell, and that they met the dealer in the parking lot of Family Pizza, 1595 Lakeview Ave., about 9:10 p.m.
The drug dealer arrived in a dark-colored Buick, accompanied by two other men and a woman.
The drug dealer suggested everyone move to the Englesby parking lot within the school complex across the street, since it was dark and secluded during school vacation week, according to Deputy Chief David Chartrand.
The drug dealer and another man got into the back of a red Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by the would-be teenage customers.
The teenagers told police there was an argument over the price of the marijuana, the drug dealer pulled out a silver revolver with a black handle, and demanded the teenage boys hand over their wallets.
Police said the dealer then ordered the teenagers out of the Jeep, told them the gun was real, and fired a single gunshot into the air to prove it. The dealer then got into the Jeep and drove away from the scene with the Buick he arrived in following close behind.
Dracut Police were called to the school complex about 9:30 p.m., and immediately asked surrounding towns to be on the lookout for the Jeep.
The red Jeep was found abandoned on Patricia Lane, near New Boston Road, about 10:30 p.m. It was empty. Police are still searching for the Buick.
Chartrand said neither of the teenage victims is a Dracut High School student. He said the 17-year-old is a high school student, but he declined to identify what school that boy attends.
The drug dealer is described as a Hispanic male, 20 to 23-years-old, 6’2 to 6’3, about 200 pounds, with short, black hair.
The man who got into the Jeep with the drug dealer was a black male, 5’5 to 5’7, about 150 pounds.
The two people who stayed in the Buick were described as a Hispanic male, 19 to 20-years-old, 5’10 to 6 feet tall, about 175 pounds; and a white female, about 5’7, heavyset, with dirty blonde shoulder length hair.
Anyone with information on those individuals is asked to call Dracut Police at 978-957-2123.