Seconds later, a large truck passes driven by a middle aged female singing at the top of her lungs. This is a group of users cobbling together some money and getting as much as they can, which based on what they can afford, isn’t much, but it still needs to be dealt with.”Īs he finishes his sentence, a familiar voice crackles on the radio alerting everyone listening on the encrypted line that the drug mule is getting closer. “With cocaine, crack, and even marijuana you would see high level guys coming down here,” says Passwaters, “but with heroin, it’s very rare that you find someone who is hauling 5,000 bags of heroin in and out of the area each day. While officers try to take down and cut off each new tail, the head of the snake they seek seems further and further away. Heroin users have in many cases, become small-time dealers to help feed their habit, so Passwaters says the snake may have one massive head, but it also has a countless number of tails, with new ones seemingly sprouting up daily. We are just trying to get to the head of the snake.”īut the rub in this search for the proverbial head of the snake is that it’s almost impossible to find or even get close to.
“This is definitely low level stuff we are doing today,” he says, “but the key is to take them down at this level, and hopefully it will lead us to the next level. Overdose cases have risen substantially over the past year in the region, with Passwaters admitting that responding to scenes of an overdose are becoming almost as commonplace as conducting sting investigations like this one. The point is you just never have any way of knowing what’s in those capsules or in those doses from one day to the next, even if you are buying from the same dealer.” “Benita Quinine actually puts a shelf life on the heroin,” says Passwaters, “it eats the active agent in the heroin after a few days, but most of the time, these people are using as soon as they get it. Passwaters say some junkies prefer “scramble” to other brands or forms because it is often cut with Benita Quinine, which is a powdered cutting agent that is often used by dealers because it allows them to cut the pure heroin in order to increase profits and prolong the supply with an agent that tastes just as bitter as pure heroin does when sampled orally. The heroin is place inside red and white capsules making the drug almost look like cold medicine. “Scramble,” also known as Baltimore Scramble, is the preferred form of heroin coming out of Charm City. “We’ve been watching this person’s spouse for a few weeks, and we are pretty sure that they just made a trip up to Baltimore this morning to get some scramble. Nate Passwaters of the Worcester County Sheriff Department’s Criminal Enforcement Team. “We’re going to keep it as low-key as we can because we only have one shot at this,” says Sgt. He listens intently while his eyes are still locked on the hundreds of cars whizzing by us on Route 50. Listening to all of this is the man calling the shots and ultimately will pull the verbal trigger to pursue the vehicle and enact the arrest. The officers trade off coded language that indicates that all signs seem to point to the assumption that drugs are in the vehicle. Two other voices chime in almost inaudible audio bursts on the line. “She’s about a half a mile behind me in the right hand lane approaching fast.” “I just crossed over the line,” says the voice. You can feel the adrenaline start to bubble as the encrypted radio line crackles with word that the vehicle is closing in. The team believes this vehicle isn’t packed with Boogie boards or beach towels. Yet, on this day, a small team of undercover officers sit in strategic spots along the busy traffic artery poised and patiently waiting for one vehicle they expect to be passing within the next few minutes.
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(Editor’s Note: The following represents the latest installment in an ongoing series diving into the issues associated with drug addiction across the lower shore.)īERLIN - The eastbound lane of Route 50 is buzzing with beachgoers as it is on most Friday afternoons in the summertime near Ocean City.
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