BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE POLICE COMMISSIONER MEDIA RELATIONS SECTION deeny ate roe ere on EIGHT ARRESTED IN TWO MONTH LONG INVESTIGATION IMD, une 14,2015 ~The Baltimore Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the arrest of eight suspects during a two manth lang investigation. During the couse of se investigation eleven suspects were developed and were ultimately Indicted and charged with conspiracy and distribution of drugs. ‘The joint investigation targeted both perpetrators of valence and drug distribution in the are of Poplar Grove and Westwood Avenue. One af the suspects charged ls 24-year-old Kevin Pyatt, who has also been chargeé with the double shooting invlvng a 9-yea-ld over Memorial Day weekend ‘On Wedhnesday, June 10,2015, members ofthe Special Enforcement Section along with agents {om the DEA served "en search and seizure warrants throughout the west side ofthe city. Among the property recovered were five handguns, drugs and paraphernalia, “This was the result of targeted proactive enforcement by ou officers remaining engogedin the crime fight an taking criminal to jail, The Baltimore Police Department will continue to arrest, those offenders wo are causing destruction to our communities,” Police Commissioner Anthony \W. Bats sad. “Due tothe commitment of investigators firearms recovered and the individuals ‘who used them will na longer be comming ats af violence in aur neighborhoods.” "An investigation ke this shows that the drugs and the violence inthis city are joined atthe hip’, stated DEA Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Shawn R Ellerman, "The DEA stands with our law enforcement bretiren, both local and federal, ready and determined to investigate, dsr and dismantle these olen organizations tiling every means at our disposal" ‘These arrests ae the atest product of a continued collaboration between officers in the Special Enforcement Section the Drug Enforcement Adminstration, and the United States Marshals, ‘isis the second announcement of major arrests involving individual who are responsible for both vilence and drug eistibution by the Baltimore Police Department this week. Of the 13 suspects indicted those listed below have been apprehended! Damonte Smith 2/22/96 Lamar Jones 1727/98 Kevin Byatt 12/19/80 Keon Powell 6/29/92, Derrick Powell 7/23/95, Kennard Jackson 13/18/96 Samuel Alston 2/2/96 rele Johnson 3/25/90 End