Boston pastor arrested for drug trafficking, possession

A Boston pastor is facing numerous charges after police said they found drugs and cash while executing search warrants early Wednesday morning.

Boston police said they arrested Willie Wilkerson, 58, of Dorchester, around 10 a.m.

Members of the City Wide Drug Control Unit along with District B-2 Neighborhood DCU executed three search warrants at his Baker Avenue home, and for Mission Church and Victoria’s Kitchen Food Trailer on Quincy Street.

As a result of the warrants, police said they seized:

• 34 grams of crack cocaine
• 11 grams of fentanyl
• 50 Percocet pills
• 87 Suboxone strips
• 32 Klonopin pills
• About $10,400 in cash

Also found on the property were items that were recently reported stolen during a breaking and entering at an excavating company.

The total vale for those items was about $20,000.

Wilkerson was charged with trafficking Class B drugs, possession with intent to distribute Class B drugs and possession with the intent to distribute Class C drugs.

The incident remains under investigation and additional charges may be pending.

Cox Media Group