Anne Arundel County police said Monday that they significantly disrupted the local marijuana pipelinewith a $9.3 million seizure last week.
“I was wowed,” said police Chief Tom Shanahan. “Being in this career for 30-some years, it?s hard to get wowed, but I was shocked.”
Shanahan said officers made the raid and four arrests Wednesday after six months of intense investigation. Police described the suspects as large dealers who were responsible for supplying smaller drug dealers in the Baltimore region.
“We think there are some people out of a great deal of money, and some [people] out a great deal of drugs,” Shanahan said.
Police said officers assigned to the area where the drugs were confiscated have already been alerted to the possibility of repercussions, but said additional patrols had not been added.
Glen Burnie residents Derek Honeycutt, 24, and Jason Bibeault, 24, were charged in Anne Arundel County with one count each of possession of ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine; one count each of possession with intent to distribute those drugs; and one count each of being kingpins in the distribution of marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine. Their bond was set at $1 million each.
Alfred Anderson, 21, of Glen Burnie, and Alvin Burruss, 35, of Reisterstown, were charged with one count each of possession of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and ketamine and one count each of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine. Bond was set at $1.5 million for each.
The stash, collected from a storage facility on East Furnace Branch Road in Glen Burnie and from the suspects? residences, was displayed at a news conference at police headquarters. More than 684 pounds of a high-grade marijuana called “kind bud,” valued at about $30 per gram on the street, were packed in 20 cardboard boxes and stacked against the wall.
Undercover narcotics officers also seized $1.05 million in cocaine, ecstasy pills and crack cocaine, and $55,450 in currency.
