Recently Released Convict Caught With Rifle, Drugs In Elkton: Police

The 29-year-old Hammond is facing fresh charges in Howard County after recently being released from custody in Delaware for a shooting and setting up shop in Howard County, police say.

According to the Elkton Police Department, at around 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, officers completed a weeks-long investigation into the distribution of drugs out of the New Eastern Motel on East Pulaski Highway - specifically room 309.

Investigators say that a serach and seizure warrant executed at the motel led to the recovery of:

• 149 small clear plastic bags with wax papers filled with white powdery substance of suspected heroin/fentanyl mix;
• Three grams of suspected crack cocaine;
• Sixty-three white pills of suspected acetaminophen-hydrocodone;
• Twelve Suboxone strips;
• HK MP5 .22 LR semi-automatic rifle with a scratched off serial number;
• An undisclosed amount of cash.

Officials made note that Hammond only recently got out of jail in Delaware after serving a five-year prison sentence for shooting and wounding two people in New Castle in June 2018.

He was charged with the distribution of narcotics, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person prohibited, possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and "a number of other charges," police in Elkton said.

Hammond is being held at the Cecil County Detention Center on a no-bond status.

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