HOLYOKE - A 29-year-old Northampton man and four others were arrested on heroin charges Tuesday after Holyoke police said they busted a drug deal in a restaurant parking lot.

The arrests later led to the discovery of an additional 800 bags of packaged heroin and $2,900 in cash in a room at America's Best Value Inn at 671 Northampton Street in Holyoke, according to a police report. Police estimate the street value of the drugs at $8,000.

"Eight hundred bags is significant when you think about it and when it's going to go into the streets of Holyoke," said Holyoke Narcotics Detective Liam Glasheen. "At the end of the day, it's a lot of product taken off the street."

Andrew T. Cameron, of 86 Pines Edge Drive, Northampton, and Matthew Sabourin, 30, of Chicopee, were arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges of possessing heroin and conspiring to violate a drug law. They were released on their own recognizance at Holyoke District Court Wednesday. Cameron is expected to appear for a pretrial hearing in March.

Also arrested outside Friendly's were a 16-year-old juvenile and Denzel E. Rivera, 18, of Holyoke, on charges of possessing heroin, possessing heroin with intent to distribute, distributing heroin, conspiring to violate drug law and a drug violation near a school or within 100 feet of a public park.

Talyssa Torres, 20, also of Holyoke, was arrested Tuesday night at the hotel on a charge of trafficking heroin.

The Holyoke Police Narcotics Unit was tipped off after receiving information of drug activity in the parking lot of Friendly's Restaurant on Route 5. While staking out the area shortly after 2 p.m., police said Cameron and Sabourin entered the parking lot in a black Volkswagen and engaged in a drug deal with Rivera and the juvenile, who were in a dark blue Mitsubishi Montero. Police said the Mitsubishi matched a description of a vehicle involved in another "hand to hand" transaction that occurred in a nearby Walgreens parking lot a day earlier.

Police at the scene found a 10-packet bundle of heroin stamped "Starbucks" in the driver's side rear floor of the car Cameron was driving and three bundles, or 30 packets, of heroin stamped "Starbucks" and wrapped in magazine paper in the Mitsubishi.

Police also found a key with the number 116 tagged to it in the latter car, which later led them to a room where Torres had been staying at America's Best Value Inn.

Police searched that room with Torres' consent and located 800 packets of heroin stamped "Starbucks" wrapped in newspaper in a backpack, $60 in change and $2,900 in cash, according to a police report. Torres was charged with trafficking heroin (14-28 grams) and also was released on her own recognizance with conditions.

Dan Crowley can be reached at dcrowley@gazettenet.com.