The only lines Ruben Acevedo will be staring at in the near future will be the tally marks counting down his sentence on his cell wall, if he is convicted following his arrest for cocaine trafficking on Sunday.

Acevedo was arrested along with his accomplice, Monique Miller, according to the Waltham Police Department’s Public Arrests Lists. Acevedo was charged with the unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and failure to stop and yield on an arrest warrant. Police also charged him with cocaine trafficking. Miller was charged with possession of Class B drugs.

According to a Waltham Police statement made to Wicked Local Waltham, the arrest was made in the vicinity of Lowell Street and Pine Street at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when the arresting officer observed Acevedo and Miller walking together. According to the report, Miller’s unsteady walk prompted the arresting officer to stop her in order to determine whether she was intoxicated and required protective custody.

As the officer approached the pair, he noted Miller hugging Acevedo and clasping an unidentified object in her hand as they separated. Upon her attempt to hug Acevedo the second time, the officer separated the pair and discovered two bags of cocaine in Miller’s hand, according to the same Oct. 4 Wicked Local Waltham article.

Upon a further pat down of Acevedo to locate any drugs Miller may have passed to him, the officer found “corner bags” — bags of crack cocaine — as well as an Altoids tin containing 14 individually wrapped bags of cocaine on him, totaling 19.5 grams of the U.S. Schedule II illegal drug.

Cocaine trafficking carries a sentence of 3-15 years in prison, with potential fines of $2,500 to $25,000 for those convicted of trafficking 14 to 28 grams.

—Mihir Khanna