CRIME: State police conduct weekend drug sweep
Daily Times Staff Report • February 23, 2009
SALISBURY — A drug sting targeting high crime and drug areas over the weekend ended in eight arrests by local law enforcement, police said.
Maryland State Police conducted the sting with the help of the Wicomico County Narcotics Task Force and the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office K-9 unit, according to a statement by police.
The "criminal enforcement patrol" was the first of many expected to be dispatched in Salisbury, according to police, with the hope of reducing violent crime in the area.
Drug violation arrests include:
Michael Steven Gordon
Marquis Javon Downing
William David Wilkes, III
Andrew Robert Parsons