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Indictments Reveal Prison Crime World

Officers, Inmates Charged In Drugs, Extortion

April 17, 2009|By Justin Fenton , justin.fenton@baltsun.com

According to the documents, Brown, who was being held at the Maryland Transition Center in Baltimore, was heard on wiretaps discussing a failed attempt to get lobster into the prison. He "ultimately was able to smuggle only salmon with shrimp and crab imperial," and discusses how members were able to obtain champagne and Grey Goose vodka. He requested that someone smuggle in a "good cigar" for him to smoke while drinking.

Documents say that gang members are linked to several killings, and officials said three of them could soon be charged with murder through a superseding indictment.

Authorities also detained several key Black Guerrilla Family members who are accused of directing drug distribution outside the prisons, including Kevin Glasscho, 46, and Tyrone Dow, 42. Prosecutors allege that Glasscho operated a large-scale heroin ring in the region. In one instance, according to a search warrant, he instructed an associate to meet him at the Belvedere Hotel in Mount Vernon to discuss a drug transaction, but the meeting was aborted after associates heard police discussing their meeting on a police scanner.

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said gang members faced with stiff prison sentences are cooperating with authorities, and investigations continue.

"We will get more wiretaps, we will do more surveillance, and we will be coming to them very shortly," Bealefeld said.

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