Reisterstown Man Sentenced for Supplying Eastern Shore Heroin

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A Reisterstown man was sentenced to 12 years in jail for selling heroin to an Eastern Shore drug trafficker, officials said.

Gary Tyrone Kess, 37, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland said in a statement Friday.

Kess was a gateway for heroin to the Eastern Shore and was part of a ring the Caroline County Drug Task Force investigated for four months before a slew of arrests in summer 2014, according to the Caroline Times-Record.

Officials said Kess was arrested in Anne Arundel County after police had been watching him for more than a week.

Police watched Kess meet with a suspected drug trafficker for two minutes in his minivan in the parking lot of a Severna Park fast food restaurant on June 23, 2014, the district attorney reported.

Soon after, authorities pulled him over for a traffic violation, and a K-9 officer signaled there were narcotics inside the minivan, the report said. A search uncovered 150 grams of heroin and $6,000 in bank envelopes, according to the report.

Officials also watched a similar meeting June 14 and intercepted a June 16 text message referencing the arrangement for 150 grams of heroin, the statement said.

Following 12 years in prison, Kess will have five years of supervised release, the district attorney reports.

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