Baltimore County man sentenced to 11 years for drug conspiracy

BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to drug distribution and money laundering charges, authorities say.

Ronald White, 56, of Pikesville, was involved in a large-scale drug conspiracy that operated in and around Baltimore, according to the Department of Justice. He was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on Wednesday, October 16th.

Prosecutors say that White supplied cocaine, crack cocaine, and fentanyl to drug traffickers in West and Northwest Baltimore. He was also involved in laundering money obtained from the drug sales, according to authorities.

Investigators identified White as a source of supply for members of a drug trafficking organization during a drug investigation in West and Northwest Baltimore that began in April 2020, according to his guilty plea.

Between March and April 2021, White engaged in at least seven large cash transactions that involved over $1,346,000 in drug proceeds that were to be laundered, prosecutors said.

White also admitted to maintaining stash houses where he stored drug proceeds totaling approximately $549,000. Investigators recovered equipment used to package narcotics, including a hydraulic kilogram press, digital scales, and a powder commonly used as a cutting agent for heroin and fentanyl from one of the stash houses, according to the Department of Justice.

Additionally, investigators recovered 242 grams of cocaine base, 43 grams of cocaine, 3,724 grams of cocaine separately packaged, and 3,975 grams of fentanyl from the stash houses. Officers also recovered an additional 150 grams of fentanyl from White’s vehicle, they noted.

As part of his guilty plea, White admitted that it was reasonably foreseeable that he or other members of the conspiracy would distribute at least 1,200 grams but less than four kilograms of fentanyl, as well as quantities of cocaine, cocaine base, and heroin in furtherance of the conspiracy, according to authorities.

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