Two Hagerstown residents arrested on heroin charges

A 3-year-old boy was among the people who were inside a Hagerstown home on Tuesday afternoon when authorities raided the residence during a heroin investigation, according to court records.
Washington County Narcotics Task Force agents wrote in the statement of probable cause that the boy and a woman were in a third-floor master bedroom when police used a search warrant to enter the home at 749 Monet Drive.

The woman with the child was not charged in connection with the incident.

But Lindsay Susan Fisher, a 26-year-old woman who lived at the residence and was found in a third-floor hallway after police forced their way inside, was charged with distribution of a controlled dangerous substance and conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, court records said.

Fisher also was charged with one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance other than marijuana.

Less than 10 minutes before the home was raided at 5:30 p.m., narcotics agents allege Fisher sold $480 worth of heroin to a confidential narcotics informant inside the three-story town house, which is near Pangborn Park in Hagerstown's North End.

Police said the informant was given $500 in task force funds to make the heroin purchase. The informant was fitted with an electronic-monitoring device that allowed investigators to monitor and record any conversations that occurred during the operation, the charging documents said.

At 5:22 p.m., the informant met Fisher outside the Monet Drive residence, and the two walked inside. Fisher then left the home and got into a four-door Honda that pulled up outside. She left the vehicle at 5:24 p.m. and re-entered the residence with a bag containing suspected heroin, the documents said.

Officers who were observing the transaction pulled the vehicle over as it drove away and arrested 31-year-old Quian Christopher Taylor of North Locust Street in Hagerstown, the documents said.

Taylor was charged with one count each of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance and possession of a controlled dangerous substance other than marijuana, according to court records.

Police said they recovered $480 of task force money from Taylor's right hand.

A tan-colored powder that was recovered from the informant after the buy tested positive for heroin, the documents said.

Investigators said a glass pipe, a plastic bag containing a green vegetable substance and a digital scale were among the items that were found during the search.

Fisher and Taylor are being held on separate $75,000 bonds at the Washington County Detention Center.


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