A man police considered a “high level target” in the region’s drug scene is in custody today after the Queen Anne’s County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant in Centreville.
Antoine Jermaine Adkins was arrested without incident in the pre-dawn search and seizure Wednesday at 1012 Dulin Clark Road.
Officers found Adkins in the Centreville house where a woman described as his girlfriend resides. The Task Force recently raided the same house and arrested her for possession of “felony amounts” of cocaine.
Hours earlier, officers searched a Grasonville house where Adkins was believed to live, but failed to find him there. But in his bedroom they found his wallet and 5.9 grams of cocaine. In another room they confiscated a 9mm handgun and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Asked about the significance of Adkins’ arrest, Deputy States Atty. John Mark McDonald said, “He’s got priors. We don’t generally serve search warrants on people we think are runners. The Task Force goes after higher level targets.”
McDonald noted that search warrants are what he called “crapshoots,” and sometimes officers find drugs and sometimes not. He said that after the biggest seizure in Queen Anne’s a few years ago, the man arrested “told us if we’d been a few hours later we wouldn’t have found anything.”
The six grams discovered in Adkins’ residence have a street value of about $1200. And that’s considered a lot to uncover at one site.
“Most users never have more than a gram,” McDonald explained. “Usually a lot less, a tenth of a gram, costing $20. Most addicts won’t spend more than $40 or $50 at a time. They don’t have the money.
“It’s not something you stockpile because you don’t want to spend all your money on drugs. That’s why crack addicts will go out six times a night (to buy).”
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