A Massachusetts state senator is calling the state’s emergency housing assistance program into question after an illegal immigrant was allegedly caught with an AR-15 and about $1 million worth of fentanyl in a state-subsidized hotel room. 

Leonardo Andujar Sanchez of the Dominican Republic, 28, was arrested by Revere Police on Dec. 27 and charged with 11 criminal counts in Chelsea District Court. Ten were related to firearms possession – including one for being an “alien” in possession of a firearm – and one for possession of approximately 10 pounds of the synthetic opiate.

Sanchez was also charged in Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday with possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl and unlawful possession of a firearm. He had been living at the Quality Inn in Revere, where authorities found five kilograms of suspected fentanyl, an AR-style assault rifle, ammunition, two rifle magazines, digital scales and latex gloves in his room, federal prosecutors said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston estimated that the drugs were collectively worth about $1 million, according to an agency press release. The agency was called in by local police after Sanchez was arrested, and determined that he had entered the U.S. illegally.

Massachusetts’ Republican Party in August accused Gov. Maura Healey of quietly having spent over $1 billion on the state’s migrant crisis. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

“And now it just adds insult to injury, because they can clearly afford to have private representation, but a public taxpayer-funded room to live out of and to traffic drugs out of in and they’re in ahead of line in front of people that I represent whose houses are burned down and they have children and about to go homeless, you know, getting driven out of the hotel that they’re renting through insurance money,” he continued.

Fattman insists that unsealing Sanchez’s court documents is the first step to understanding the state’s apparent shortcomings in its vetting process for the program. 

“We need to know in order to make the best course forward, how to change this. And the only way to know is by un-impounding the documents and revealing what’s in them and knowing how this person got here – who made the decision to bring them here?” Fattman said. “Like if they’re part of a cartel, you basically have invited the cartels into Massachusetts to do harm to our families, our children. It’s just totally unacceptable.”

Massachusetts’ Republican Party in August accused Healey of quietly having spent over $1 billion on the state’s migrant crisis.

“The Healey-Driscoll Administration has shrouded nearly $1 billion spent in secrecy, leaving Massachusetts residents in the dark,” Massachusetts Republican Party Chair Amy Carnevale said in a statement at the time. “They have withheld critical information on 600 incidents involving police, fire, and EMTs. Blocking journalists at every turn, the administration has obstructed the flow of information to the public.”

The Executive Office of Housing & Livable Communities and the governor’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

During a Friday news conference, though, Healey said Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, that all shelters are undergoing mandatory searches, and background checks are being conducted on everyone in the state’s shelter system to ensure that no criminals are living in those facilities.

The Democratic governor said she has been disappointed with the federal government’s handling of immigration and hopes President-elect Trump addresses the border issue.

Fox News’ Andrew Fone contributed to this report.