Vehicle stop on Delaware Turnpike leads investigators to Baltimore stash

3BPD dismantles narcotics manufacturing network seizing more than a kilogram of drugs

Baltimore, MD — A targeted investigation into a rise in violent crime culminated in a multi‑agency operation that resulted in two arrests and the seizure of large quantities of suspected cocaine, fentanyl and drug‑manufacturing materials from a commercial building in West Baltimore.

In early September the Baltimore Police Department Group Violence Enforcement Team opened an inquiry after detectives gathered intelligence that suspects were traveling to Delaware to transport controlled dangerous substances into Baltimore. On September 17 a vehicle stop on the Delaware Turnpike produced pressed suspected cocaine, suspected fentanyl and packaging materials tied to the probe.

Following the stop, detectives