A Massachusetts District Court judge has dismissed drug trafficking charges against Rida Kori, a former Burlington school board member who was arrested last year. Kori, 25, was taken into custody in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in September 2024 after police found about 86 grams of suspected heroin and fentanyl during a traffic stop. However, Judge William P. Hadley threw out the case last week after Kori’s attorney, Kedar Ismail, argued that officers had conducted an illegal search. Ismail claimed p