Drug Bust, Baltimore Sun photo by Gus G. Sentementes
The drug drama made nationally popular by HBO series “The Wire” comes to life in the form of a recent drug bust made by Baltimore Police. More than 90 pounds of cocaine, and $11,000 dollars in cash were seized from a Southwest Baltimore City home this past week; providing Baltimore Police with their biggest drug bust in the operations history.
Interestingly enough, the investigation didn’t take the perfunctory years and months of intelligence gathering and undercover operation; it took a matter of weeks. Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III told reports at a press conference Friday that he believed the person arrested had a wholesale operation going.
“These drugs, wherever they were destined, whether Western Maryland, the Eastern Shore or East or West Baltimore, they are affecting our communities…Forty-one kilos of cocaine will not reach the streets of our city. All of us can take some comfort in that”
