ELKTON — Officers made seven arrests relating to drugs and guns in Elkton over the Labor Day weekend, according to the Elkton Police Department.
The series of arrests started on Friday when detectives assigned to the agency’s Street Crimes and Criminal Investigation Units confiscated “a large quantity” of unspecified illegal drugs and a firearm while conducting court-approved searches at two residences, one in the 100 block of Huntsman Drive, the other in the 100 block of Pheasant Drive at the conclusion of a narcotics investigation, police reported.
Investigators arrested Elkton residents Jason Rhoades, 28; Sean Reaves, 42; and Daijon Caulk, 34, in addition to 20-year-old Middletown, Del., resident Jahiem Jennings, and charged them with numerous felony and misdemeanor offenses, according to police.
Then on Saturday, an EPD officer confiscated a loaded Glock handgun with a modified trigger while conducting a probable-cause search of a Porche Cayenne during a traffic stop in the 300 block of Belle Hill Road, police said. That resulted in the officer arresting the driver, Uddin Harding, 19, of Newark, Del., and his 23-year-old passenger, Lashawn Stanley, police added.
The seventh arrest of the holiday weekend occurred in the early-morning hours of Saturday, after EPD officers responded to a residence in the 200 block of Hollingsworth Manor for a reported “domestic altercation” involving a man and a woman, police reported.
When officers arrived, they noticed a man running out of the residence while reaching toward his waist, police said. An officer caught the man with the assistance of a fellow officer, police added.
Investigators searched the area in which the man had run and found a loaded Polymer handgun that lacked a serial number on the ground, according to police. Officers confiscated the firearm and arrested the man, whom investigators identified as Emmanuel Nieves, 36, of Elkton, police reported.
The investigations leading to the holiday weekend arrests were supported in part by the Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network. The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy supplies grant funding and strategic assistance to MCIN member sites. These resources enable the identification, disruption and dismantling of criminal organizations through enhanced inter-agency collaboration and data sharing, contributing to a safer Maryland for all.