Baltimore Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Prison for Cocaine Offense

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Baltimore, Maryland man was sentenced for selling cocaine in Berkeley County, West Virginia, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey.

Terrell Antonio Henderson, 35, was sentenced to 41 months in prison. Henderson worked with several others to transport cocaine from Baltimore, Maryland to the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. While surveilling the defendant as a part of an ongoing investigation, officers observed a suspected drug transaction near Henderson's vehicle in a parking lot in Spring Mills, West Virginia. A lawful search of the vehicle seized $1200 used to purchase the drugs, cocaine, and drug paraphernalia.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Omps-Botteicher prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

Investigative agencies include the Eastern Panhandle Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, and the Martinsburg Police Department.

Fentanyl has been designated by President Donald Trump as a weapon of mass destruction due to its extreme lethality which poses a grave threat to public safety, even in trace amounts. This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime, and repel the invasion of illegal immigration.

U.S. District Judge Gina M. Groh presided.