BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Police charged five people with narcotics offenses after a raid of what they described as an open-air drug market around the corner from last week’s mass overdose in West Baltimore, during a weekend when officers arrested at least a dozen people while surveilling other drug-dealing hot spots.
Police did not say whether any of the drug arrests in the past several days were linked to Thursday’s overdoses in Penn North, but confirmed there had not been any arrests in that case as of Tuesday. Authorities have not said much about their probe into the source of last week’s incident, which quickly sent at least 27 people to hospitals.
Court records filed since Thursday indicate that authorities have been monitoring drug-dealing hot spots more closely, arresting alleged dealers and seizing various illicit substances in raids…