$250K In Ecstasy, Cocaine Seized In Annapolis Drug Raid: Police

EDGEWATER, MD — An Annapolis man faces numerous drug charges after reports of trafficking in the Edgewater area led to a raid that seized Ecstasy, cocaine and other drugs worth more than $250,000. Anne Arundel County Police said the department wrapped up a three-month investigation into drug distribution in the Edgewater/Annapolis area with a search and arrest on March 14.

Thursday morning officers from the Annapolis City Police Department, Anne Arundel County Police Opioid Task Force and Drug Enforcement Agency executed a search warrant in the unit block of Maryland Avenue in Annapolis and seized:

• Several bags containing suspected cocaine (454.04 grams with an estimated street value $45,404
• Several tabs of paper suspected LSD (55.5 grams)
• 247 Alprazolam pills (estimated street value $2,470)
• MDMA (2,106.33 grams of Ecstasy - estimated street value $210,600)
• 176 THC cartridges
• An undisclosed amount of cash
• Money counter
• Drug sales paraphernalia (bags, heat sealer, cutting agent, scales)

Detectives then responded to two storage units located in the Edgewater/Annapolis area and executed two additional search warrant owned by the suspect. Inside the storage units police found:

• A safe containing a large amount of U.S. currency, amount not specified
• Several bags containing MDMA (522.27 grams of Ecstasy - estimated street value of $52,000)
• 587 Alprazolam pills (estimated street value $5,870)

Paul Anthony Luongo, 26, of Annapolis, is charged with:

• CDS Possession - large amount (2 counts)
• CDS: Possession with intent to distribute: narcotics (2 counts)
• CDS Possession with intent to distribute (2 counts)
• CDS: Possession with intent to distribute: PCP/LSD/Hal
• CDS: Possession-not marijuana (4 counts)
• CDS: Possession of marijuana 10 grams or more

This investigation was made possible in part due to money from the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, which funds the Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network.