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By Justin Fenton | June 20, 2009
A Baltimore man was arrested Thursday after officers found drugs, a handgun and ammunition in a home where two children ages 4 and 6 were locked inside, police said. Corey Baker, 39, of the 2600 block of Seamon Ave., was stopped by officers on patrol in Cherry Hill and admitted that he was in possession of marijuana, police said. He was arrested and then told the officers that his children were home alone. Officers responded to the home with Baker to check on the safety of the children.
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By Justin Fenton | November 13, 2008
A 33-year-old man shot in Baltimore 12 years ago, who was paralyzed from the waist down, died of complications related to his injuries, police said. Valando Goodman was shot April 14, 1996, after getting into an argument in the 2200 block of Jefferson St. in East Baltimore. His attackers were never found. He died July 29 this year, and the medical examiner's office determined the next month that the death was a result of the shooting. The death counts against this year's homicide tally.
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October 19, 2008
Police charge 3, seize drugs in Annapolis Police seized 25 grams of apparent crack cocaine from the Clay Street home of a suspected drug dealer Tuesday, Annapolis police said. On Monday morning, officers witnessed what appeared to be a drug deal between a pedestrian and a man in a car near the intersection of Clay and Pleasant Streets. Police found a small amount of crack cocaine in the center console of the car and charged the driver, John E. Edwards, 53, of Reidsville, N.C., with drug possession and seized his Honda Civic, police said.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson | July 12, 2007
The son of the civil rights director for the Maryland attorney general's office is facing drug charges after police searched the home he shares with his father during a drug sweep, police said. Police charged Kojo Lummuba Malik Snowden, 22, son of Carl O. Snowden, with possession and intent to distribute marijuana last week as part of an undercover investigation that included more than 30 drug buys throughout the city. Details of those charges, which police said resulted from a three-month investigation of drug dealing in the city, were sealed.
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May 4, 2007
A William H. Lemmel Middle School teacher was arrested yesterday and charged with possession of methadone that she is suspected of buying on her way to work, Baltimore police said. About 7:15 a.m., undercover officers observed a man selling what turned out to be a 2-ounce bottle of methadone to a woman in the 2000 block of N. Charles St., said Detective David Jones of the Central District's drug enforcement unit. The officers arrested the dealer, and the woman was arrested by uniformed officers who stopped her car about two miles away in the 2500 block of W. North Ave. and seized the methadone, Jones said.
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By Melissa Harris | March 30, 2007
Howard County police have arrested 25 people in a three-month investigation into drug activity in the Columbia villages of Wilde Lake and Harper's Choice. Four of the suspects are juveniles; six were charged with drug distribution; 17 live in Columbia; and all of them live in Maryland. The operation also netted several repeat offenders, including Dennis Pully, 19, of Brookway in Columbia. According to court records, Pully pleaded guilty to marijuana possession, drug possession and second-degree assault charges in two separate cases in November as part of an apparent deal with prosecutors in which more severe drug distribution, auto theft, theft, fraud and drug possession charges -- his third -- were dropped.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | June 20, 2003
Howard County police arrested 32 people on drug-related charges Wednesday night at a Dead concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Twenty-four people were arrested and charged with illegal possession of controlled dangerous substances, and eight were arrested and charged with distribution of controlled dangerous substances, police said. Officers also seized $1,200 in money and drugs, including LSD, PCP and marijuana, police said. The Dead is made up mainly of members of the now defunct Grateful Dead rock group.
NEWS
September 15, 2002
Man with knife robs driver, steals his van and flees PASADENA - County police are investigating an armed robbery and carjacking that took place early Friday morning at Fort Smallwood and Marley Neck Roads in Pasadena. Officers who responded to the incident at 2:49 a.m. said Kenneth E. Meadows, 57, of Baltimore, a driver for Stoney Creek Passenger Service, told them that as he was driving on Marley Neck Road, his passenger put a knife to his throat and demanded money. Meadows gave the man cash and was ordered to get out of the van. The suspect fled in the van. 3 arrested in Pasadena on drug, weapons charges PASADENA - Ending a three-month investigation, county police arrested three people on drug and weapons charges Friday at a residence in Pasadena.
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By Laura Barnhardt | April 25, 2002
Through a combination of planned drug raids and a search that came after a driver ran a red light, Anne Arundel County police have seized more than $4,000 worth of marijuana, crack cocaine and cash in recent days. In two days, eight people have been charged with drug violations around the county, police said yesterday. Narcotics officers made their biggest seizure of the week Tuesday in Glen Burnie. Police said officers watched two men sell marijuana to another man, then stopped the van in which the two men rode a short distance away.
NEWS
November 15, 2001
Philadelphia man wanted in Pa. case charged in Arundel A 20-year-old Philadelphia man wanted in a homicide there was arrested after police seized more than 73 grams of crack cocaine, a sawed-off shotgun and drug paraphernalia from his Brooklyn Park motel room, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Acting on an anonymous tip, county police said they arrested John C. Dwyer, of the 2400 block of Carlisle Street in Philadelphia, at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday after a brief foot chase. Police also arrested Tiffany L. Jackson, 19, of the 5400 block of Sunner Street in Philadelphia, at the Budget Plaza Motel at 4806 Ritchie Highway.