Police seized more than 4 kilograms of cocaine with a street value of about $400,000 during a traffic stop on I-95 in Harford County earlier this week.
Members of the Metropolitan Area Drug Task Force has been tracking a drug shipment Monday that began in Elkridge in Howard County.
Around 2 p.m., task force members saw two people put various items in their car and later meet a third person in another car at a nearby fast-food restaurant, according to charging documents. After a few minutes they drove to a gas station and met up again.
The two cars – a gray Ford Expedition and blue Pontiac Grand Am – eventually began driving north on I-95 toward Philadelphia.
An hour later, a trooper assigned to the JFK Barrack on I-95, who had been forwarded information about the Expedition, saw it was following another vehicle too closely and pulled it over near the Riverside – Route 543 exit, according to charging documents.
In the car was the driver, Rajaee McKinney, 10-4-77, and a passenger, Amanda Navarro, 7-31-87, both of Philadelphia; they had a 1-year-old with them, according to court documents.
During a search of the vehicle, troopers found four packages of suspected cocaine, as well as paperwork from a shipping company that indicated the package shipment was going from Arizona to Elkridge.
At the same time the Expedition was pulled over, so was the Grand Am, in Cecil County north of the Tydings Bridge. In the car was Omar Johnson, 5-24-78 of Philadelphia, as well as the driver, who was not charged.
Johnson is charged with importing drugs into the state, narcotics possession with intent to distribute, possession a large amount of drugs, drug possession other than marijuana, conspiracy to import drugs into the state and conspiracy to possess narcotics with intent to distribute them. He was released on $250,000 bond.
McKinney and Navarro are charged with narcotics possession with intent to distribute, drug possession other than marijuana and possession of a large amount of drugs. McKinney was being held at the Harford County Detention Center Thursday on $250,000 bail, Navarro on $200,000 bail.