An Edgewood teenager is back in jail this week after being arrested in an Aberdeen hotel room containing drugs and guns ? days before a hearing to determine if a separate attempted murder case will be sent to juvenile court.
Shamere Tiarra Germany, 17, was one of four teenage girls charged with beating and stabbing Gregory Simmons, 44, in a brawl outside his Edgewood town house last Thanksgiving weekend.
She was scheduled for a reverse waiver hearing today to determine whether she will be charged as a juvenile in the November fracas, but prosecutor Joel Muneses said her July 4 arrest on charges of possession with intent to distribute and illegally possessing a firearm may hurt her chances.
“The recent arrest makes it less likely the court will waive her,” Muneses said.
She had been out on bail, but state law requires she be held without bail after picking up the additional felony charges, he said.
Germany was arrested at the Red Roof Inn in Aberdeen, along with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Andrew Lee Clark, according to charging documents.
Clark had been selling drugs behind the hotel, and when Aberdeen police followed him to a hotel room, they found bags of suspected crack cocaine, materials for measuring and packaging drugs, money, and two weapons, the documents said.
Clark told police that the money on the floor was Germany?s bond money.
Police found one working revolver and one pellet gun, which dealers keep to duplicate the look of a real gun without the risk of being prosecuted for handgun violations, the documents said.
Germany?s purse, in a car parked outside the room, also contained marijuana, police said.
Germany had been one of nine people charged in the Thanksgiving weekend brawl on Eloise Lane, including several of her cousins and her mother. The girls and as many as 40 others went to the town house to confront one of Simmons? daughters over her relationship with a man one of Germany?s friends was dating, police said.
Simmons? wife testified last month that Germany wielded the knife that severed her husband?s spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Germany is scheduled for trial on the assault and attempted murder charges in October.
Two of the other suspects were acquitted, but one pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, and Germany?s mother was found guilty of first-degree assault in June.
