Retiring state prosecutor watched Carroll?s drugs, gangs mushroom

Two firsts bookend Clarence Beall?s nearly two-decade career: Prosecuting Carroll?s first crack cocaine case 17 years ago, and, more recently, busting drug-peddling gangs.

“Look how far we?ve come,” said Carroll County Deputy State?s Attorney Beall on Thursday, his last day on the job. “Carroll County has changed exponentially to the point where we now have a half a dozen deaths a year from heroin.”