Bel Air Man Sentenced In Cocaine Conspiracy Spanning States

BEL AIR, MD — A Bel Air man was among three convicted in a cocaine conspiracy, the Harford County state’s attorney announced this week.

Geofrey Raheim Brown, 29, of Bel Air was sentenced on Monday to serve 12 years at the Division of Corrections for conspiracy to import cocaine into the state, officials said. He will be on supervised probation for four years, and if he violates that, he will have to serve an additional 13 years in jail, authorities reported.

Brown was identified by the Harford County Narcotics Task Force as an importer of drugs in the county following an investigation from August to November 2021, prosecutors said. His supplier was a man in Edgewater, N.J., according to authorities.

Harford County detectives and federal agents had been surveilling Brown when he met with his supplier at the dealer’s New Jersey home to obtain cocaine, prosecutors reported. They said they learned the Bel Air man was using couriers to get the drugs to Maryland as well.

At Brown’s direction, officials said one of the couriers later met with the supplier at a New Jersey restaurant and was stopped in her vehicle in Maryland, where law enforcement found more than 300 grams of cocaine, more than 100 grams of a cutting agent and 336 grams of marijuana.

“The drugs that were seized were intended to be delivered to Geofrey Brown so he could redistribute them in Harford County,” prosecutors said in a statement.

Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr. sentenced Brown on Monday to 12 years behind bars. His supplier — Keneil Carlos Callender, 32, of New Jersey, was sentenced to 11 years of incarceration with three years of probation and another nine years in jail should he violate it.

The courier — Danita Ginette Cromwell, 46, of Elkton — will be sentenced for her role on Nov. 14, prosecutors said.