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Former crime boss' son charged in heroin raid
The son of former SouthCoast crime boss Timothy “The Bat” Mello was arrested early Friday morning in a drug raid on Hope Street, according to court records. emailprint 25

Brian Fraga
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted Mar. 1, 2014 @ 12:08 am
Updated Mar 1, 2014 at 12:12 AM

The son of former SouthCoast crime boss Timothy “The Bat” Mello was arrested early Friday morning in a drug raid on Hope Street, according to court records.
Timothy J. Mello II, 22, of 1224 Old Fall River Road in Dartmouth, and Kelly A. Duarte, 31, of 364 Hope St., Fall River, were both arrested and charged with possession to distribute heroin. Mello was ordered held on $2,000 cash bail, and Duarte was held on $1,000 cash bail, after both were arraigned Friday in Fall River District Court.
Massachusetts State Police troopers and members of the Fall River Police Department’s Vice and Intelligence Unit executed a search warrant at Duarte’s apartment just after 6 a.m. Friday. The warrant named Duarte as a target and said police were searching for narcotics, specifically heroin, according to court records.
Duarte told the police officers that Mello was her half-brother and that he had been staying in her apartment for the past several months. When first questioned, Duarte and Mello both denied knowing whether there was anything illegal in the apartment, according to a report filed by State Police Trooper Mark Burke.
Police searched the apartment and said they found a variety of prescription pills along with a dozen small bags of heroin and cash next to Mello’s driver’s license on a night stand. Police said they also found about a dozen small bags of heroin and cash in Duarte’s purse, according to court records.
While being booked, police said Mello admitted to exchanging cash for heroin to support a drug habit. At the time of his arrest Friday, Mello was on release for the same offense on another case, according to court records
Mello’s father, the so-called “Cod Father” whom authorities said ran a crime ring in Fall River and New Bedford beginning in the 1990s, was released from federal prison in September 2011 after he served most of his 12-year sentence for racketeering.
In 2002, the FBI arrested the elder Mello following an investigation led by federal officers. He pleaded guilty on May 24, 2004, to two charges of racketeering in federal court in Boston.
The younger Mello and his co-defendant, Duarte, are both scheduled to return to Fall River District Court for pretrial hearings on May 12.