Vials

Four Baltimore men were arrested yesterday morning after a patrol officer reported finding 300 vials of crack cocaine in their possessionduring a traffic stop, county police said.The patrol officer reported that he pulled the car over around 2:50 a.m. after seeing it weaving in traffic in the westbound lane of U.S. 40 near Greenway Drive, police said.After asking the driver to step out of the car, the officer conducted a pat search on him, according to a court record. The driver started to run away from the officer and threw a plastic bag into the nearby woods, the court record said.

An 18-year-old Lansdowne man died early yesterday as the result of a shooting Friday night near his apartment building that appeared to be drug-related, Baltimore County police said.Residents of a building in Lake in the Woods Apartments reported hearing gunshots coming from a parking lot at about 10 p.m., said Jay Miller, a police spokesman.After the shots, residents saw a young man come around to the front of the building, holding his chest and saying he had been shot. When the police arrived, they found Julius Donte Evans of the 2900 block of Lakebrook Circle lying in the second-floor hallway of the building just outside his apartment, suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest.

Numerous complaints about drug activity in an East Baltimore neighborhood led to the arrest last night of three suspects -- ages 13, 14 and 16 -- in the 1800 block of Regester Street.Seized at the scene were $300 in cash and 37 vials of powdered cocaine -- nine of them hidden in a tennis ball and the rest in a window of a vacant house, police said.In a yard, officers found 43 vials believed to contain cocaine residue.Eastern District officers charged the youths with possession of cocaine and with the intent and conspiracy to distribute it, andreleased them to the custody of their parents.

A 10-year-old boy was arrested yesterday and charged with drug possession in Northwest Baltimore after he allegedly was caught holding several vials of cocaine for someone older, police said.The arrest occurred yesterday about 4:30 p.m. in the 3200 block of Woodland Avenue, near Park Heights Avenue, when police spotted a 20-year-old allegedly selling drugs.As police moved in, they saw the 20-year-old passing several vials to the 10-year-old. A subsequent search of the 10-year-old yielded seven vials of powdered cocaine, police said.

A 20-year-old man who police said passed several vials of powdered cocaine to a 10-year-old boy moments before both were arrested in northwest Baltimore is being held on $25,000 bail today.City police said the man, Daryl McCain of the 3400 block of St. Ambrose Ave., was arrested yesterday afternoon in the 3200 block of Woodland Ave. and charged with possession of cocaine and using a minor to distribute cocaine.McCain was to face a bail hearing review this afternoon at the Edward Borgedine Building on Walbash Ave. An August 8 court hearing on the charges has been set by the District Court commissioner.

Complaints by East Baltimore residents led to the arrest last night of an alleged 15-year-old drug dealer, who was nabbed during a police raid with three vials of suspected cocaine in his hand as he walked out of his front door, according to police.The youth's mother and aunt also were arrested on drug charges -- including the use of a juvenile in the distribution of narcotics.The raid in the 400 block of East 21st Street occurred at 6:50 p.m. when police officers on a surveillance assignment saw the youth apparently making street sales outside the house.

Police today were seeking at least two gunmen who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and critically wounded a man as they sat on the front steps of an apartment building on Fulton Avenue, police said.Homicide Detective Harry Edgerton said the shootings may be drug-related because police found several vials of suspected cocaine in the building's hallway immediately behind the victims.Dead on arrival at University of Maryland Medical Center was DaShawn Powell, of the 1700 block of St. Paul St., Edgerton said.

A 12-year-old boy who was allegedly carrying 23 vials of cocaine is the third pre-teen to be arrested by city police in the past two weeks on drug offenses.The youth, a sixth-grade student whose name was not released, was arrested Sunday by Eastern District police officers in the 1900 block of E. Lanvale St.The boy's arrest came two days after Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke directed police to focus on city playgrounds, where a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old were arrested in separate incidents on recent days.

Three youths -- including a 10-year-old boy who was playing on a swing set -- have been arrested at an East Baltimore playground by undercover police officers and charged as juveniles with possession of cocaine.Police said the youths had been watched by undercover officers yesterday afternoon on the playground at Holbrook and Hoffman streets for a short period before one officer approached the 10-year-old and found four vials of suspected cocaine and cash stuffed in his socks.The two older boys, both 15, who were suspected of selling vials of cocaine for $10 each, also were arrested, police said.

The mother of an 11-year-old boy accused of cocaine dealin said she had suspicions about his activities weeks before he was arrested Thursday in East Baltimore with five vials of cocaine and $160 stuffed in his sweat pants."