Former Lexington Rep Facing Drug Charges

A former state Representative and Town Meeting member from Lexington is facing drug charge in a scene like something out of a TV show.

According to the Suffolk District Attorney’s office, Stephen W. Doran was arraigned in West Roxbury District Court on Wednesday, May 22, following his arrest the previous day on methamphetamine trafficking charges.

Prosecutors allege Doran, a former Town Meeting member and state Rep from Lexington, had more than 400 grams of “a crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine” delivered to the school, where he was working as a tutor.

Doran was held on $10,000 bail after his arraignment Wednesday, where he was charged with trafficking methamphetamine and violating the state’s drug laws in a school zone.

According to the Globe, a plea of not guilty was automatically entered on Doran’s behalf and he is expected back in court on June 24. If convicted, Doran could face eight to 20 years in prison, the Globe reported.

Here in Lexington, people who knew Doran say the charges sound nothing like the former “Golden Boy” of Town Meeting and seven-term state Rep. Locals also say they haven't heard much from Doran after he left the House in 1994 and moved out of town.

Doran was a Town Meeting member in Lexington during the 1970s and was elected to the 15th Middlesex House District in 1980. A Democrat, he represented Lexington in the Legislature until 1994, when current state Rep. Jay Kaufman assumed the post.

According to the Suffolk DA’s press release, State Police investigators on May 21 obtained a search warrant for an express mail package sent to Doran at the Match Charter Middle School in Jamaica Plan, where he was employed as a tutor.

Doran’s vehicle was stopped as he left the school and State Police investigators opened the package to find “two heat-sealed baggies containing 480 grams of a crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine.”

As a result of that seizure, State Police got another warrant to search Doran’s residence on Dix Street in Dorchester, where they found an additional 38 grams of meth, about $10,000 cash, a digital scale and “other items consistent with drug distribution.” Doran will face additional charges in Dorchester District Court in connection with the seizure at his residence, the Suffolk DA’s website said.

The total street value of the drugs seized has been estimated to be about $50,000.

According to WCVB, a neighbor of Doran’s described the former Lexington resident as quiet, and never a problem in the neighborhood.