A 29-year-old Springfield man was arrested Tuesday after police found him allegedly dealing crack cocaine near Mass and Cass, Boston Police stated.

At about 11:34 a.m., officers with the BPD Drug Control Unit were conducting surveillance of an individual later saw him “in what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction,” the department said.

The officers on scene stopped the alleged buyer and said they found “a white, rock-like substance believed to be crack cocaine” in him hand. The person was ordered to appear in Boston Municipal Court on a Class B possession charge, police said.

The cops then approached the alleged seller — later identified as Jonathon Turner, 29, of Springfield, Massachusetts — standing inside a bus shelter at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street, BPD said. Turner was detained for “further investigation,” the police said.

Inside the front pocket of Turner’s sweatshirt, police allegedly found 101 bags of a substance also believed to be cocaine, BPD stated. The total drugs police said they recovered weighed 122 grams.

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Boston Police also said they seized an “undetermined amount of U.S. currency.”

Turner was arrested and will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of Distribution of a Class B Substance (Crack Cocaine) and Trafficking a Class B Substance (100–200 grams).