Overview

• Baltimore residents Brian Alexander Hall, 37, and Lauren Michelle Beckman, 35, were arrested in a targeted investigation focused on a supplier for two city neighborhoods.
• Detectives working with Delaware State Police conducted a Delaware Turnpike traffic stop that yielded suspected cocaine, fentanyl and packing materials, then searched a commercial site in the 5700 block of Baltimore National Pike.
• Seized evidence totaled nearly 1,200 grams, including 1,078 grams of pressed cocaine, 124 grams of fentanyl, 9.96 grams of crack cocaine and 68 grams of a fentanyl–methamphetamine mixture, along with manufacturing and packing materials.
• Police say the Group Violence Enforcement Team launched the probe in early September in response to a rise in violent crime across the city’s southwest, western and southern districts.
• Commissioner Richard Worley lauded local, state and federal coordination, as officials note a separate early-September bust with six arrests and weapons while the City Council seeks a plan to curb open-air drug markets.