Springfield police charge 31-year-old Doris Pessolano, 'obviously pregnant,' with dealing crack cocaine

Police also arrested 32-year-old Sean Harmon after raiding their Indian Orchard home.

SPRINGFIELD – Police said they arrested a pregnant 31-year-old Indian Orchard woman for dealing crack cocaine and other charges after raiding her Darling Street home Tuesday night.

“For the past several months, the narcotics investigators developed a case against drug dealing taking place at 60 Darling St. by an obviously pregnant Doris Pessolano,” said Sgt. John M. Delaney. “The detectives watched for weeks as the future mom made drug sales.”

Detectives held the pregnant woman under surveillance Tuesday as she sat in front of her house with her children taking cell phone calls, Delaney, aide to Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet said.

Police then followed Pessolano as she drove to the Lowe’s store parking lot on Boston Road where they allegedly saw her make a drug deal to a person waiting in a car. They then followed her to the corner of Dubois and Farnham streets where she allegedly sold cocaine to a woman that pulled up in a Nissan Pathfinder, Delaney said.

After Pessolano, of 60 Darling St., pulled away, some of the detectives moved in to arrest the woman in the Pathfinder. That woman, Celine Jimenez, 28, of 560 Tremont St., Chicopee, was found to be in possession of a bag of cocaine, Delaney said.

Others followed Pessolano back to her Darling Street home, Delaney said.

Police applied for and received a district court search warrant for 60 Darling St. and raided the home at about 6:10 p.m. Police arrested Pessolano and Sean Harmon, 32, of that address who yelled to warn her that the police were coming, Delaney said.

Both were charged with distribution of cocaine, possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of amphetamine pills with intent to distribute.<

Jimenez was charged with possession of cocaine.

Police seized 3.5 grams of powder cocaine, 21 amphetamine pills, a large back of crack cocaine and packaging material.

Delaney said that as detectives led Pessolano outside her home in handcuffs she yelled to neighbors to lock up the house.

Additional information was not immediately available.