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By Nicole Fuller | April 9, 2009
Ten people have been charged with drug possession after a raid on a Brooklyn Park house Tuesday night, Anne Arundel County police said Wednesday. Officers from the Northern District's Tactical Narcotics Team and Tactical Patrol Unit found cocaine and heroin in the house in the 200 block of W. Arden Road when they raided it about 9 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Officers also found devices to smoke crack cocaine, syringes to inject heroin, drug-packing materials and tally sheets to track the sales of drugs.
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By Don Markus | April 4, 2009
A 21-year-old Columbia man was acquitted of first-degree murder in a botched robbery last year that led to a shooting death. The jury in Howard County Circuit Court also found Ronald McConnell not guilty of first-degree robbery and first-degree assault in the May 2008 incident, in which Jason Batts was killed. McConnell was found guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and two gun possession charges. The trial lasted more than a week, and the jury deliberated over two days before returning its verdict Thursday night.
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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 Matthew Dolan | February 22, 2007
A federal jury in Baltimore convicted a 45-year-old Delaware man yesterday of distributing a large amount of cocaine in Cecil County. Nigel Humphrey John Baptiste of New Castle, Del., was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Winding Brook community of Elkton from 2004 through 2006 and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Co-defendant Andre Lamar Ricks, 27, who used to live in Winding Brook, pleaded guilty during the trial to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
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January 13, 2007
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. granted clemency to 18 people yesterday, bringing to 249 the number of pardons and commutations he has issued in his term. Yesterday's clemency orders went to: Marie T. Alexis, 54, convicted of battery in 1990; Debra Y. Blowe, 50, convicted of welfare fraud in 1977; Timothy Breth, 55, convicted of breaking and entering and seven counts of larceny in 1970, and possession of controlled dangerous substance and paraphernalia in 1974; Tammy L. Carper, 41, convicted of distribution of phencyclidine in 1984; and Alverta L. Chapman, 47, convicted of shoplifting in 1978.
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By Matthew Dolan | August 4, 2007
In separate federal trials this week, juries convicted three men on drug distribution charges, including two defendants who were targeted by prosecutors and city police because of their extensive criminal records. On Tuesday, Earl Gordon, 27, was convicted of possessing crack cocaine with the intention of selling the drug. A separate jury convicted Victor White, 49, on Wednesday of possession of heroin and cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Carlos Woods, 23, was convicted yesterday of drug possession with intent to distribute.
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By Matthew Dolan | November 3, 2007
A member of the Bloods gang received a 10-year-prison sentence yesterday in federal court in Baltimore after his conviction on a gun possession charge. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Lanikko Santiago, 26, of Baltimore, to the prison term followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. According to the testimony presented at his two day trial, Santiago was a passenger in the rear seat of a vehicle on Nov. 8, 2006 that was pulled over by Baltimore City Police detectives for a traffic stop.
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By Richard Irwin | October 4, 1999
After stopping a van for speeding on southbound Interstate 95 in Jessup yesterday, state troopers searched the vehicle and reported finding several pounds of suspected semisolid marijuana and hashish oil worth several thousand dollars.Three Florida men were arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, police said. Tfc. Clifford Hughes of the Waterloo barracks, who was driving an unmarked patrol vehicle, said he paced the 1986 Chevrolet van with Florida tags at 77 mph in a 65-mph zone and stopped it about 8: 30 a.m.He said he became suspicious when he noticed that there was no luggage in the van and when the men gave conflicting information about their trip to New York.
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By Dave Barry | March 28, 1999
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I asked the question: Who should be our next president? Should we elect yet another member of what future historians, looking back on late 20th-century American political leadership, will refer to as "The Long String of Bozos"? Or should we have the courage and wisdom to boldly change course and place the future of our great nation -- and, yes, the world -- into the capable, experienced hands of a professional humor columnist?Imagine how totally shocked and surprised I was when many of you wrote to me, sometimes in crayon, and said: "Our next president should be YOU, Dave!
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | October 3, 1999
Three people were being held Friday on cocaine distribution charges after police raided a Westminster motel room Thursday evening, court records show.Detectives carrying a search warrant entered a room at the Boston Inn, in the 500 block of Baltimore Blvd., at 7: 24 p.m. and made the arrests after finding suspected crack cocaine on a table, according to charging documents.Arrested were Wayne E. Reightler, 38, of the first block of John St. in Westminster; Ann E. Chase, 25, of the 1200 block of Woodland Circle in New Windsor; and Eric L. Bennett, 22, of the 800 block of Cator Ave. in Baltimore.