Attorney Allegedly Brings Drugs to Reading Woman in Court

A Quincy attorney was arraigned Wednesday for allegedly bringing drugs to a Reading woman inside Chelsea District Court.

According to a press release from Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, Michae Lustig was arrested and subsequently arraigned for allegedly bringing Suboxone tablets into court Wednesday with the intent of bringing them to Alicia DeMarco, 27, of Reading.

Suboxone, according to Conley, is a drug prescribed for opiate addiction. In addition, however, the drug is also sold and used illicitly, the District Attorney said.

As a result, Lustig was charged with possession of a Class B substance with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate the state’s drug laws.

Prosecutors asked for Lustig to be held on $20,000 bail because of a 2008 case during which he allegedly was involved in receiving stolen property and conspiracy. Instead, a judge ordered Lustig be held on $2,000 bail and he was issued an order for him to stay away from DeMarco.

DeMarco was also in court on Wednesday for charges of distribution of a Class B substance. The District Attorney said that while the Reading resident was not taken into custody, detectives will seek a complaint charging her with conspiracy to violate the state's drug laws.

According to the press release, Massachusetts State Police received information that Lustig would be attempting to deliver the drugs on Wednesday. As a result, State Police narcotics detectives obtained an anticipatory order for a search and seizure and as a result received permission to search him when he showed up at the courthouse around 10:30 a.m.

Lustig reportedly used his identification to move past security at the courthouse, and when stopped by State Police he told them he was there to visit a friend. 

Officers presented Lustig with the judge's order, and according to the District Attorney, at that point, he allegedly asked “If I give them to you, will you let me go?”

Police also said that after providing troopers with an envelope with DeMarco's name on it, Lustig made unsolicited statements like “She made me do it” and “She set the whole thing up.”