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Laurel resident Markell Joyner, 24, is facing drug and weapon charges following an incident with a teenager looking to purchase a Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS) whose friends tried to pull a fast one, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department on Monday, Nov. 14.
The incident played out at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, outside the Dollar Tree on Laurel Fort Meade Road in Laurel, investigators said.
It is alleged that a 19-year-old victim was with two friends to purchase an undisclosed CDS from three others, however, the teen's associates paid the group with fake currency and proceeded to flee, leaving a man behind.
“The suspects assaulted the victim by striking him with a pistol and punching and kicking him,” according to a police spokesperson. “All of the victim's property was taken, including his clothes.”
The victim - whose name was not released - was able to get away and later was transported to an area hospital for treatment and evaluation of non-life-threatening injuries.
During the investigation into the assault and drug deal, members of the Anne Arundel Police Department identified Joyner as a suspect and tracked him to his home in the 200 block of Red Clay Road in Laurel.
A subsequent search warrant was executed at his apartment, where investigators seized:
- Glock 17 handgun with 11 live rounds;
- Black handgun;
- 23 pounds of suspected marijuana with packaging ;
- 5.5 pounds of suspected THC wax with packaging;
- $1,189.00 in cash;
- 1 large digital scale;
- 1 small digital scale;
- CDS packaging.
Charges are pending. The other two suspects remain at large.
The first suspect was described as being a Black man who was between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10 between the ages of 19 and 26. He was wearing a white tank top, black pants and had a tattoo of an eye on his left arm.
Police say the other was a heavy-set Black man in the same age range who was between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10.
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