17 People Charged after Undercover Narcotic Operation in Pocomoke City
SNOW HILL, Md. – An extensive undercover operation has led to the arrest of nearly 20 drug dealers from Pocomoke City.
Undercover members of the Criminal Enforcement Team spent 4 months posing as drug users in order to gain information on the criminal syndicates responsible for the distribution of narcotics such as heroin and cocaine.
Undercover officers engaged in 73 drug transactions, all done using audio and video recording devices. From those transactions, investigators were able to bring felony drug charges against 17 individuals.
Pocomoke City Mayor Bruce Morrison stated, "I commend the Criminal Enforcement Team for their expertise and outstanding efforts in cleaning up the streets of Pocomoke.
More than a dozen agencies are credited for assisting in taking down the seventeen individuals. Their cases are currently pending.
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I thought crime was down in Pocomoke?
ReplyDeleteWhy wasn't PCPD involved?
One way to connect the dots is to think that the former chief was turning a blind eye to the dealing in an effort to make people think it was nonexistent.
Reading this brings back a memory of a conversation I had back in September at a birthday get together.
ReplyDeleteThe conversations was with someone involved in corrections and was about the heroin use going on on the Eastern Shore. This person told me that the kids who are getting arrested are getting the drugs out of Pocomoke and the families of these kids were feeling like Pocomoke was turning a blind eye toward all the drug dealing going on.
This is probably why the concerned citizens who reported this dealing went outside of Pocomoke for results. They were tired of nothing getting done.
If all this was going on in Pocomoke then the former chief was doing a horrible job.
ReplyDeleteSince he's from Baltimore, maybe he subscribes to the same philosophy as the mayor there, and he was just giving those who wished to sell drugs space to do so.
Drugs have been a problem in Pocomoke for decades. I have lived in Pocomoke over thirty years. Drugs dealers used to get calls when a raid was going to take place. One of the people arrested recently is the son of a former town councilman. A former mayor said there was no drug problem in Pocomoke in spite of lots of evidence. Sewell is a saint compared to the police chiefs before him.
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