Federal, state and multiple local authorities on Monday announced charges against four men in an alleged drug conspiracy involving at least 31 kilograms of cocaine and $2.4 million seized by investigators.
The four arrested Friday and officially charged with conspiring to possess cocaine with intent to distribute are Hector M. Hernandez-Villapando, 63, of Hanover; Enixae Hernandez-Barba, 33, of Linthicum Heights; Hector L. Hernandez-Barba, 39, of Las Vegas; and William Frederick Cornish, 52, of Abingdon.
Prosecutors say Drug Enforcement Administration agents learned of the alleged drug ring in August, receiving information that a group was trafficking large amounts of cocaine into Maryland and using a warehouse on Golden Ring Road in Baltimore. Investigators found that a business tenant had been evicted by the end of July. They identified Hernandez-Villapando and his sons, Enixae and Hector Hernandez-Barba, as the men using that warehouse until they relocated operations to a warehouse on Hammonds Ferry Road in Linthicum Heights.
On April 6, a tractor trailer bearing the logo of the evicted business tenant arrived at the Linthicum Heights warehouse, where investigators saw items being unloaded and a van carrying the sons going around the parking lot and warehouse in an apparent counter-surveillance effort.
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Just goes to show how lucrative the street drug business can be. They will call these guys kingpins, but see how easily they are replaced.
ReplyDeleteBig deal. 60 pounds inst all that much. Theyre just throwing us a bone to make us think the war on drugs is actually working. While they fool around with this petty bust TONS AND TONS were moved across the border.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Mike Lewis didn't take partial credit. Seems he jumps at any chance to do " POLICE WORK" in the Baltimore metro area!!!
ReplyDeleteThe tractor trailer probably drove right through WCSD territory while avoiding 95.
ReplyDeleteYou know the sane warehouse is in Fruitland.
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