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Significant Drug Arrest

At about 11:45am this morning officers of the Mount Rainier Police Department, along with officers from the Hyattsville City and Bladensburg police departments, served a search and seizure warrant in the 4100 block of 30th Street in Mount Rainier. The warrant was obtained after a two-month long drug distribution investigation.

As a result of the warrant the officers made one arrest and seized 20.29 ounces of liquid PCP having a street value of $32,464; over 200 clear baggies commonly used for narcotics distribution; two digital scales; four cell phones; and other miscellaneous narcotics paraphernalia. A second related search and seizure warrant was executed at a separate location where additional items of evidence were seized.

The arrestee will be charged with multiple counts of narcotics possession, narcotics distribution and acting as a drug kingpin. The arrestee faces a mandatory five year, no parole sentence if convicted on the distribution charge. If convicted on the drug kingpin charge he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years without the possibility of parole.

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