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Feds and
Baltimore
Cops
Send
Drug
Ring
Honcho
to Pen
for 14
Years
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Baltimore,
Maryland - Chief
U.S. District
Judge Benson E.
Legg sentenced
Eric Davis a/k/a
“E,” age 30, of
Baltimore
yesterday to 14
years in prison
followed by five
years of
supervised
release for
conspiracy to
distribute over
one kilogram of
heroin,
announced United
States Attorney
for the District
of Maryland Rod
J. Rosenstein.
According to
his guilty plea,
from at least 1997
until 2005, Davis
was part of a drug
organization which
included Samuel
Price, a/k/a “Mook,”
Michael Frasier
a/k/a “Mike-Mike,”
Javon Brewer a/k/a “JB,”
Steven Boyd a/k/a
“Beans” or “Bino,”
James Stewart a/k/a
“E-Bay,” Lamont
Jones a/k/a “L” and
Katie Eggleston.
During the time of
the conspiracy, the
drug organization
sold at least 30
kilograms of heroin
at the street level
in west and south
Baltimore City and
maintained open air
drug markets or
“drug shops” at
locations in
Baltimore City,
including the
intersections of
Baltimore and Gilmor
Streets, Baltimore
and Carey Streets,
Baltimore and
Carrollton Streets,
Frederick and Fulton
Avenues, and West
Fayette and Gilmor
Streets. They used
trade names such as
“Hypnotic” and
“Chocolate City” for
the heroin that was
sold at these
locations. Members
of the organization
performed various
duties and paid
individuals to
perform such duties,
including those of
(1) “street
lieutenants” who
oversaw the
operation of the
shops, collection of
the drug proceeds,
and replenishment of
the drug supplies;
(2) “runners” who
went back and forth
from drug stashes to
the shop locations
bringing additional
drug supplies; (3)
“pitchers” and
“hitters” who served
customers with
drugs; and (4)
“lookouts” who
warned their
co-conspirators
distributing
narcotics on the
street if law
enforcement officers
were in the area.
Members of the
organization used
different apartments
and houses in
Baltimore to stash
and secrete their
drugs, proceeds,
firearms, ammunition
and other drug
paraphernalia.
From at
least 1997 to
September, 2004,
Price and Frasier
oversaw the purchase
of raw heroin, the
preparation of the
raw heroin into
“scrambled” or
diluted heroin and
the packaging of the
scrambled heroin
into gelatin
capsules for sale at
the drug shops of
the organization.
Price continued
those duties in
2005.
From at
least 1997 to 2005,
Brewer, Boyd,
Stewart, Jones and
Davis acted as
“street lieutenants”
and supervised the
organization’s
distribution of
heroin and
collection of
proceeds at the drug
shops. From at
least 2004 to 2005,
Katie Eggleston
assisted in the
preparation of the
raw heroin into
“scrambled” or
diluted heroin and
the packaging of the
scrambled heroin
into gelatin
capsules for sale at
the drug shops of
the organization.
Price,
Frasier and Brewer,
all age 27, Boyd,
age 25, Stewart, age
29, and Jones, age
28, all of
Baltimore, pleaded
guilty to drug
conspiracy charges
and have been
sentenced to between
9 and 19 years.
Eggleston, age 28,
of Baltimore, pled
guilty to possession
of over 100 grams of
heroin and was
sentenced to 8
years.
United
States Attorney Rod
J. Rosenstein
thanked the Federal
Bureau of
Investigation and
the Baltimore City
Police Department
for their
investigative work,
and commended
Assistant United
States Attorney
Charles J. Peters,
who prosecuted the
case.
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