HEROIN HIGHWAY TO HELL – Baltimore Heroin Dealer Karon Peoples Linked To 27 Overdoses – 9 Of Them Fatal – Pleads Guilty to A Drug Conspiracy

HEROIN HIGHWAY TO HELL – Baltimore Heroin Dealer Karon Peoples Linked To 27 Overdoses – 9 Of Them Fatal – Pleads Guilty to A Drug Conspiracy

During the Investigation, Law Enforcement Recovered $405,156 in Drug Proceeds, Approximately One Kilogram of Heroin, and 49 Cell Phones Used to Facilitate Drug Transactions

Baltimore, Maryland – Karon Elijah Peoples, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on July 18, 2018, to a heroin distribution conspiracy.  Peoples admitted that during his participation in the conspiracy, he was responsible for distributing, or facilitating the distribution, of between nine and 10 kilograms of heroin.  In addition, Peoples admitted that nine fatal overdose victims and 18 overdose survivors had contacted Peoples’ phones prior to their overdose—either by phone call or text message—in order to arrange for the purchase of heroin.

 

According to Peoples’ plea agreement, during the fall of 2017, law enforcement began conducting an investigation of Peoples after learning that he was supplying significant quantities of heroin to customers throughout Maryland who traveled to Baltimore City to obtain the heroin.  As part of the investigation, law enforcement conducted controlled purchases and undercover purchases of heroin from Peoples.

 

17 fatal heroin overdoses from Jan. 1 to March 6, 2018, in Harford County Md.
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On December 7, 2017, search warrants were executed at Peoples’ residence, at a stash location on West Lexington Street in Baltimore, and on his vehicle.  Law enforcement recovered 900 grams of heroin, $405,156 in cash stored in a blue checkered Louis Vuitton bag, a Rolex watch, a money counter, and digital scales and other drug paraphernalia from the stash location.  Law enforcement also recovered 68 grams of heroin from the vehicle.

 

On December 7, 2017, and on January 9, 2018, when Peoples was arrested as the result of a federal arrest warrant, law enforcement seized a total of 49 cellular phones from Peoples and the search locations.  A court-authorized search of the phones revealed hundreds of text messages between Peoples, his co-conspirator, and his customers arranging for the acquisition, purchase, and sale of heroin.  The text messages also established that Peoples was part of the conspiracy from no later than May 2015 until his arrest in January 2018.

Karon Peoples heroin and cash stash Harford Sheriff

The Harford County Narcotics Task Force and DEA coordinated with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the assistance of the HIDTA Investigative Support Center to collect information about customers of Peoples who were heroin overdose victims.  After running searches for the 49 cellular telephones possessed by Peoples, law enforcement found links between cases involving a total of 27 overdose victims—nine who died as a result of the overdose and 18 who survived.  The victims, who resided in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, had contacted Peoples’ drug phones prior to their overdoses in order to arrange for the purchase of heroin.

 

Peoples faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, and a mandatory minimum of five years and a maximum of 40 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin.  U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett has scheduled sentencing for October 16, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.

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One Reply to “HEROIN HIGHWAY TO HELL – Baltimore Heroin Dealer Karon Peoples Linked To 27 Overdoses – 9 Of Them Fatal – Pleads Guilty to A Drug Conspiracy”

  1. The policy of making the users victims doesn’t seem to be working well. Until the so called victims are held accountable for their actions and some sort of tough love policy is considered one can expect the epidemic to continue!

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