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Sunday, February 16, 2014

WICOMICO HEROIN DEALER SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON

On February 13, 2014, Joseph Allen Waltemeyer, Sr., age 47, of Delmar, Maryland, was convicted and sentenced on one count of possession with the intent to distribute heroin. A Wicomico County Circuit Court judge sentenced Waltemeyer to ten years of active incarceration in the Maryland Division of Corrections.

Waltemeyer had been pending charges related to a drug investigation conducted by members of the Salisbury Police Department’s Safe Streets Unit and members of the Maryland State Police Gang Enforcement Unit. This investigation culminated in Waltemeyer’s arrest on October 8, 2013, outside of a business in Hebron, Maryland. During a search of Waltemeyer’s vehicle, investigators discovered 39 separate baggies containing heroin. Waltemeyer admitted to investigators that he intended to sell the heroin.

Wicomico County State’s Attorney Matthew A. Maciarello commended the Salisbury Police Department’s Safe Streets Unit and the Maryland State Police Gang Enforcement Unit for their work in the investigation and prosecution of this case. Mr. Maciarello also thanked James L. Britt who prosecuted Waltemeyer.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's salisbury pd doing in Hebron. Is there no drug crime in the city

Anonymous said...

yes officer, im getting ready to sell that heroin, what a winner

Anonymous said...

Dumb criminal....he should have sold in Delaware. Would have gotten straight probation!

More than 1/2 our population is in prison for drugs/ breaking down Family structures that the Government wanted to do said...

Why do we have a war on drugs?

Do you remember reading in History about the 18th Amendment that out-lawed Alcohol from 1920-1933?

Let's legalize drugs...that takes the profit away from Congressman and Senators that are taking in huge profits with this...


Anonymous said...

I would like to know what Colorado did, after they legalize pot, with all the criminals they had locked up for selling pot.

How do you keep someone on a 10 year sentence when it is now legalized?

Anonymous said...

4:20, Switzerland tried it and are now attempting to get the mess it created under control.

Anonymous said...

4:31-That's a great question,but so many were selling other things as well.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how much more heroin is available in the bury after 9/11 being that we have troops guarding opium fields in afghanistan

Anonymous said...

4:54 well yea, like that couple from Delaware that just got busted. Come to think of it they had 71 bags, wonder what their sentence will be?

But ya know there were some peeps simply selling pot, or a blunt in the ash tray, seeds on a seat, etc.

Anonymous said...

5:50 how did you make a link in your comment? interesting!

Anonymous said...

Good work to all, but I pay salisbury city taxes I want to see the city police in the city. I don't pay my city taxes for spd to patrol Hebron that's what the state and county is for

Anonymous said...

It said he was under investigation in Salisbury. Maybe he was peddling drugs there too. He just happened to be arrested while in Hebron.Are you pople really so short minded? And 5:50, please...keep doing whatever your doing. Just don't deal it, you'll go to the slammer too.

Sara said...

Good work! We all need to work together to get these POS drug dealers off the streets!

Anonymous said...

For the record, the arrest took place in the parking lot of the Valero Fast Stop on MD US-50 at Memorial Gardens Lane.

Bullard Construction said...

In case anyone is interested, the local city and county police, as well as he state police share information and actually have a Wicomico County Bureau of Investigation unit that coordinates all law enforcement in the area to quell crime, and they do a bang up job at it.

Many of the arrests are attributed to their good work.

Anonymous said...

Not exactly true. WBI only coordinates efforts relating to things OTHER than drugs and then only in locations outside of towns with their own police departments (Fruitland, Salisbury, Delmar) unless specifically asked to assist. The Wico. County Drug task force handles major drug investigations in the same areas as well as inside those towns listed above - drugs only. In spite of efforts by the Eastern Shore Information Center - which was specifically designed for purposes of information sharing - huge amounts of information slips through the cracks. There really is no substantial coordination of all law enforcement efforts. It is up to the individual officer/investigator and oversight from their supervisors to initiate information sharing efforts. But it falls short all too often.

Anonymous said...

I know Joe he was a good person, he fell off a roof and doctors put him on opiates they get you addicted and cut you off heroin is a lot cheaper than pain pills. I don't know why he would tell them cop he was selling I think that's made up by the police to get a conviction or he wanted help and that's the only way he could get it. Hopefully he will get the help he needs.