{"id":29078,"date":"2024-08-28T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=29078"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:26:56","slug":"maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-county-man-following-traffic-stop-in-howard-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2024\/08\/28\/maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-county-man-following-traffic-stop-in-howard-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Arrest Prince George’s County Man Following Traffic Stop In Howard County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(ELKRIDGE, MD) \u2013 The Maryland State Police arrested a Prince George\u2019s County man following a traffic stop early this morning in Howard County.<\/p>\n

The accused is identified as Otha Samuel, 47, of Lanham, Maryland. Samuel was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, firearm possession by a convicted felon, and other related firearm charges.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 8 a.m., a trooper from the Maryland State Police Waterloo Barrack conducted a traffic stop on a Ford Taurus traveling in the 7300 block of Washington Boulevard for an inoperable brake light. During the traffic stop, numerous criminal indicators were present, leading investigators to conduct a K-9 scan on the vehicle. According to a preliminary investigation, the K-9 scan produced a positive alert. During the search, troopers located 483 packets of suboxone and a nine-millimeter handgun with a loaded magazine.<\/p>\n

Following his arrest, Samuel was transported to the Maryland State Police Waterloo Barrack for processing, where he is awaiting transport to the Howard County Detention Center.<\/p>\n

Maryland State Police continue to work in close coordination with local, state, and federal partners to disrupt any criminal enterprises that threaten the citizens of Maryland.<\/p>\n

The investigation is active and ongoing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Otha Samuel, Sr.<\/p>\n

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CONTACT: Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

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(ELKRIDGE, MD) \u2013 The Maryland State Police arrested a Prince George\u2019s County man following a traffic stop early this morning in Howard County. The accused is identified as Otha Samuel, 47, of Lanham, Maryland. Samuel was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, firearm  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksa-waterloo","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29082,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions\/29082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}