ELKTON â Investigators filed drug charges against a man after confiscating nearly 60 baggies containing suspect heroin mixed with fentanyl during a traffic stop in Elkton, according to Cecil County District Court records.
Cecil County Sheriffâs Office Dfc. Brian Bravo stopped a 2017 Dodge Ram driven by the suspect â David Michael Smith, 24, of the 1100 block of Jackson Hall School Road near Elkton â at approximately 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday in the 200 block of West Main Street, police said.
The deputy made the traffic stop after noticing that Smith allegedly failed to give a turn signal, before accessing West Main Street from Landing Lane, and that one of the brake lights on his pickup truck was not functioning, police added.
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A post on a Facebook page claiming that there is a sex trafficking investigation into a McDonald’s location in Elkton, Maryland is false. The official page for the town of Elkton and the Elkton Police Department both confirmed on Facebook that the account impersonating the city is spreading false information.
An example can be seen here .
The post reads: “Big news for Cecil county today, Elkton McDonald’s on Pulaski highway located in the big elk shopping center is being permanently shut down as of 4/27/21 due to a S x trafficking investigation and international money laundering investigation. - Town of Elkton public official.”
By Carl Hamilton
cahamilton@cecilwhig.com Apr 29, 2021
PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMANTHA MALLOY
A neighbor captured this photo of a Cherry Lane house on fire,
just moments after the blaze was intentionally set Thursday
afternoon.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY CARL HAMILTON
Firefighters battle a blaze in the unit block of Cherry Lane,
northeast of Elkton, on Thursday afternoon.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY CARL HAMILTON
Averee Hammond, 24, and Travis Sellers, 25, were doing work
across the street when they watched a woman set fire to a house on
Cherry Lane. Sellers rescued another woman who was trapped in the
basement.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY CARL HAMILTON
ELKTON - A man is facing numerous charges after investigators confiscated 401 baggies holding suspect heroin mixed with fentanyl, in addition to bags containing other purported drugs, while raiding his guest room at a motel in Elkton, according to the Cecil County Sheriff s Office.
Investigators identified the suspect as James Jamar Jordan, a 37-year-old North East resident who goes by Country as a nickname, reported Lt. Michael Holmes, a CCSO spokesman.Â
CCSO s Street Level Crimes Unit investigators raided Jordan s room - Room 118 - at the Deluxe Inn in the 600 block of East Pulaski Highway (Route 40) on Thursday, with the assistance of Cecil County Drug Task Force agents, Maryland State Police Apprehension Team members and CCSO patrol deputies, Holmes said.
ELKTON â A North East man was sentenced to time served â slightly more than 15 months â after a jury found him guilty of three counts of simple drug possession at the conclusion of a half-day trial on Wednesday.
During his testimony on Wednesday morning, the defendant, Lamont E. Hall, 47, admitted ownership of a bag of crystal meth, a baggie of raw heroin and nine bundles of heroin mixed with fentanyl â all of which investigators had found during a pat-down search of him in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in the 200 block of East Pulaski Highway (Route 40) at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, 2020.