A U.S. District Judge has sentenced a Baltimore man to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised released, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
According to 44-year-old Khary Owen's plea agreement, Baltimore Police Department Detectives conducted surveillance in September and October 2020 on a resident in the 500 block of Sheridan Avenue after receiving information that the house was used for drug distribution.
Detectives saw Owens on the front porch of the residence and on the sidewalk in front of the house, the plea agreement detailed.
Throughout their surveillance, the plea agreement said detectives saw Owens supply drugs through "hand-to-hand drug transactions."
Detailed in the plea agreement, detectives were able to obtain a search warrant for the residence and Owens, and was executed on October 7, 2020.
"Detectives saw Owens arrive at the residence, then hang his vest and backpack on the front porch," according to the plea agreement. "When Owens saw the detectives approaching the residence, he ran inside the house and up the stairs, where he threw a package of 58 vials of cocaine out a secondary story window into the backyard."
The backpack was retrieved by BPD detectives waiting outside the residence, the plea agreement said. Officers went into the residence and were able to put Owens under arrest.
Police recovered a .45-caliber firearm loaded with 11 rounds of ammunition, a medicine bottle filled with a suspected cutting agent to mix with controlled substances, and drug packaging from the backpack left on the porch, the plea agreement detailed.
The plea agreement said Owens admitted he intended to distribute the cocaine, and he possessed the firearm from his drug trafficking.