Possession Of Marijuana

An Anne Arundel County grand jury indicted yesterday four alleged members of a drug ring that police say formed the biggest marijuana distribution network in the county.The four were indicted under the Maryland drug kingpin statute.Patricia Emory, 45, principal of Severna Park Elementary School, was not indicted yesterday. Sources said Friday that her case was to be postponed.Mrs. Emory's husband, James Emory, 47, of the 1200 block of Villa Isle Court in Pasadena, was also indicted on charges of intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana and smuggling it into the state.

A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man convicted of dealing drugs to an undercover Carroll narcotics officer was sentenced last week to two years in state prison.Carroll Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. sentenced Joseph A. Parker to four years each on three counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, then suspended all but two years of each and ordered the terms to be served concurrently. The judge ordered Parker to serve five years' supervised probation after his release.Parker pleaded guilty to the three counts July 1. In a plea bargain, prosecutors dropped more than a dozen other charges and agreed to a two-year cap on prison time, said Judith S. Stainbrook, Parker's attorney.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Baltimore City Southwestern District Drug arrests: District drug enforcement unit officers saw two men allegedly sell narcotics to a man Tuesday in the first block of S. Monroe St. and arrested all three. Police recovered more than $300 and four $10 plastic bags containing heroin. Neal Pinkney, 35, of the 600 block of Linnard St. and Darrell Walker, 35, of the 400 block of Allendale St. were charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin.

Four Arnold men arrested in drug caseA three-month undercover drug investigation led to the arrests Wednesday of four Arnold men in a home on Shore Road, county police said yesterday.Police raided a house in the 100 block of Shore Road about 9 p.m. and seized $5,000 worth of marijuana and hashish along with pagers and a 1982 Mazda RX-7.Authorities said they were acting on complaints from neighbors about drug dealing.They said detectives infiltrated the network and were taken to the Arnold address, the home of David Sade, 25.Mr.

Three men and two women were arrested on drugs charges Tuesday, after police intercepted a 2-pound package of marijuana that had been shipped from Arizona. The package led police to two addresses, where the arrests were made.Police said the marijuana was worth $9,000 on the street.At 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, police raided a house in the 7900 block of Sutherland Court, arrested two people and recovered a small amount of marijuana. Christopher Lee Michaels, 23, was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of marijuana.

An inmate at the county Detention Center was charged Tuesday with drug possession after a guard found marijuana in his pocket, county police said.Carlester Sellman, 38, was charged with possession of marijuana. He is serving 18 months for burglary.Daniel Sillaman, a guard at the Detention Center in Annapolis, told police he searched Sellman about 5 p.m. as he was leaving the center for his work-release job and found the marijuana.Pub Date: 7/11/96

An Anne Arundel County police narcotics unit seized 6-foot-tall marijuana plants Monday that were growing in the back yard of a Linthicum house, police said. They estimated the street value of the crop at nearly $11,000. Michael Anthony Zimmerman, 47, and Julie Montgomery, 30, both of the 200 block of Church Circle, were charged with manufacturing a controlled dangerous substance, possession of marijuana and heroin and possession of drug paraphenalia, police said. The northern district's tactical narcotics team obtained a search warrant for the house.

A watchful Linthicum resident followed a man who was pushing his neighbor's lawn tiller down Patapsco Road Wednesday, then summoned county police, who caught a suspected thief in woods near the Nursery Road light rail station.Thomas Walsh told police he saw a man pushing the tiller past his house in the first block of Patapsco Road about 8 p.m. Walsh recognized the tiller -- it belonged to a neighbor, Diana Koltz -- but not the man, police said.Walsh ran to Koltz's house, and the two of them followed the man to the light rail station where they called police after they saw him push the tiller into the woods, police said.

Two Western District officers, alerted by a Meade Village resident, crept up on a man and a youth and arrested them Wednesday evening on marijuana charges, county police said.Officers John Heidenberg and Thomas Middleton were on routine patrol about 7 p.m. when the unidentified citizen reported that two people were smoking marijuana in front of a building in the 1900 block of Arwell Court. Officer Heidenberg drove to the front of the building, and Officer Middleton approached the suspects from the back of the building.

Six are charged after drug raid on Holly RoadSix people were charged with narcotics violations after county police raided a home on Holly Road yesterday morning and seized $10,000 worth of marijuana.Investigators said they had received a tip that marijuana was being grown in a home in the 7900 block of Holly Road.At 12:30 a.m., officers arrested Sherry Lynn Weygant, 34; Keith Starr Weygant, 39; Karl Miller Weygant, 32; and Andrew Allen Bailey, 41; all residents of the home. They were charged with manufacturing marijuana and possession of marijuana.