WICOMICO HEROIN DEALER SENTENCED TO FOURTEEN YEARS IN PRISON

PRESS RELEASE

On July 25, 2014, Bradley Aaron Hill, age 29, of Salisbury, Maryland, was convicted and sentenced on one count of possession with the intent to distribute heroin. A Wicomico County Circuit Court judge sentenced Hill to fourteen years of active incarceration in the Maryland Division of Corrections. The total sentence imposed was twenty years with all but fourteen years suspended. Thus, upon his release, Hill will have 3 years of supervision by the Division of Parole and Probation.

Hill had been pending charges related to his November 4, 2013 arrest for drug offenses. On that date, officers from the Salisbury Police Department’s Safe Streets Unit and the Maryland State Police Gang Enforcement Unit were on patrol in Salisbury when they observed a subject, who was subsequently be identified as Hill, leave a gas station only to drive to another gas station nearby. At neither location did the officers observe Hill pump any gasoline into his vehicle. Hill then began to leave the second gas station at which time he observed the officers in their vehicle pass his location. Hill then turned around and re-entered the gas station parking lot. Thinking this behavior strange, officers pulled into the gas station parking lot to approach Hill in order to speak with him. As the officers approached Hill’s vehicle, Hill began to exit his vehicle and, at the same time, Hill discarded a number of small blue capsules onto the ground. This was observed by the officers, who immediately recovered the capsules and found them to contain heroin. After Hill was arrested for the heroin capsules, a search incident to that arrest led to the recovery of multiple additional capsules from Hill’s person and vehicle.

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 Hill.

For more information or for an interview please call the Office of the State’s Attorney at (410) 548-4880 or visit www.wicomicosao.com