An extensive Baltimore Police Department investigation recently culminated in two arrests and the capture of a sizable cache of narcotics linked to an operation supplying drugs to neighborhoods in the Mount Clare and Pigtown areas. In an effort to curb the surge of violent crime in the Southwest, Western, and Southern districts, the Group Violence Enforcement Team initiated the probe in early September, as detailed on the Baltimore Police Department's website.
With intelligence suggesting that the suspects were importing controlled substances from Delaware into Baltimore, the detectives coordinated with the Delaware State Police. On traveling to Delaware last Wednesday, a vehicle stop on the Delaware Turnpike yielded a significant amount of drugs and related materials. The stop, which was conducted though the suspects were in motion, netted items believed to be pressed cocaine, suspected fentanyl, and a host of packaging materials employed in drug distribution.
A subsequent search was executed at a commercial building on the 5700 block of Baltimore National Pike, further rooting out a drug manufacturing and distribution setup. The complete list of recovered items consisted of 1,078 grams of pressed suspected cocaine in brick form, 124 grams of suspected fentanyl, 9.96 grams of suspected crack cocaine, and 68 grams of a suspected fentanyl/methamphetamine mixture, alongside various manufacturing and packaging materials.
Arrested in connection with the operation were 37-year-old Brian Alexander Hall and 35-year-old Lauren Michelle Beckman, both local to Baltimore.
Commissioner Worley's commendations underscored the collective efforts of the Baltimore Police Department’s Group Violence Enforcement Team, along with the Southwest and Southern District Detectives, the Baltimore Community Intelligence Center, and partnering law enforcement agencies like the DEA, Maryland State Police, Baltimore County Police, and the Delaware State Police.
