The son of the civil rights director for the Maryland attorney general's office is facing drug charges after police searched the home he shares with his father during a drug sweep, police said.
Police charged Kojo Lummuba Malik Snowden, 22, son of Carl O. Snowden, with possession and intent to distribute marijuana last week as part of an undercover investigation that included more than 30 drug buys throughout the city.
Details of those charges, which police said resulted from a three-month investigation of drug dealing in the city, were sealed.
However, in May, an informant claimed that drugs were stashed in Kojo Snowden's vehicle, according to records. They searched the car and the Snowden home with Kojo Snowden's consent and found no drugs, police said.
A digital scale that Kojo Snowden told police was previously used to weigh illegal drugs, was seized during the afternoon search, according to police records. Carl Snowden was not at the house, which is in a quiet residential neighborhood in central Annapolis, at the time of the search.
Reached at his job, Kojo Snowden, who turned himself in Friday, declined to comment on the more recent charges. Because the records are sealed, it could not be learned if he was required to post bail before being released.
In February 2006, Kojo Snowden was charged with drug possession with intent to distribute and later sentenced to probation before judgment, according to court records. Marijuana possession and resisting-arrest charges were dropped.
Calls to Kojo Snowden's attorney, Daryl D. Jones, who is out of the country were not returned.
As part of the citywide drug investigation, police seized, over a three-month period, more than $10,000, eight cars and various amounts of heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana, police said. Twelve other people were arrested and charged with drug possession and intent to distribute.
Police said more indictments are expected.
Carl O. Snowden, a longtime civil rights activist, former Annapolis alderman and former aide to previous Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens, declined to comment on his son's arrest and on the search of his home.
The elder Snowden was tapped by Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler in January to head the state's first office of civil rights and acts as a liaison between the attorney general and the community.
Raquel Guillory, a spokeswoman for Gansler, declined to comment.
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