Traffic Stop Yields Heroin, Cocaine, Oxycodone in Search of Vehicle: Police

PASADENA, MD — Two young men have been charged with possessing and distributing heroin, cocaine and prescription pills after they were pulled over and searched early Wednesday by the Anne Arundel County police.

At 4:12 a.m., a patrol officer stopped a vehicle on Deering Road in Pasadena after it failed to stop for a red light, according to a police statement. When the officer approached the vehicle, the driver, Nicholas Wayne Costagliola, 19, and the passenger, Richard Lee Henritz, 21, "started acting in a suspicious manner," the police said.

Costagliola gave police officers consent to search his person, and the officers recovered a pill bottle containing 14 small bags of suspected heroin, according to the statement.

They also searched Henritz, recovering a pill bottle containing five bags of suspected heroin, as well as a second pill bottle containing four bags of suspected cocaine mixed with heroin, 19 bags of suspected cocaine, 14 oxycodone pills and four Xanax pills, the police said.

"A search of the vehicle yielded a backpack with a digital scale and a book used as a drug ledger," the statement added. Henritz and Costagliola were arrested and transported to the Police Department's Eastern District station for processing, where they were charged "with various drug possession and drug distribution charges," the police said.

The two young men have addresses in Pasadena, the police said. They list Henritz's address in the 800 block of Deering Road, and Costagliola's address in the 8400 block of Bussenius Road.

Image: Items seized in the police search early Wednesday included cash and pill bottles containing small plastic bags of heroin and cocaine (AACPD).

Images below: Richard Henritz, top, and Nicholas Costagliola (AACPD)