Officer Suspended, Charged with Making Drugs: Police

An officer assigned to the Woodlawn precinct has been suspended as authorities investigate her involvement in an alleged drug manufacturing operation, police reported Friday. Her husband has also been charged, officials said.

Sarah Campbell, 32, of the 200 block of Mid Pines Court in Owings Mills, is charged with manufacturing drugs, leaving a firearm where a minor may have access, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, court records show.

Campbell is a five-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, which reports she has been suspended without pay and will be subject to an internal investigation. She was arrested Thursday and released Friday on $15,000 bail, police said.

Her husband, Clifford Campbell, 32, of the same address, faces identical charges in addition to using a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime, police said. He was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000 bail, police reported Friday.

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The charges against the Campbells came after what officials said was an ”extensive investigation into narcotics activity” led by a Baltimore County narcotics detective who serves on a DEA task force.

The detective obtained a warrant to search an apartment in Baltimore County, where weapons and drugs were found when county officers and federal agents served the warrant on Wednesday, Oct. 14, police said.

Due to safety concerns, police declined to disclose the location of the apartment other than that it was in the county, according to Cpl. John Wachter of the Baltimore County Police Department.

In addition, Wachter said that officials could not comment on the type of narcotics allegedly being manufactured at the apartment, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation.

Booking photos of Sarah Campbell and Clifford Campbell courtesy of the Baltimore County Police Department.