Rookie MTA police officer nabs federal fugitive

[Baltimatt]

Federal warrant then withdrawn.

If you’re a federal fugitive, you better not skimp on paying the Baltimore Metro Subway fare when Generia Lawson is on the job.

On April 17, Lawson, a rookie Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) police officer, was in full uniform, doing routine fare checks at the West Cold Spring Metro Station on Wabash Avenue, when she accomplished what the U.S. Marshals Service has not done in three years: arrest 62-year-old Roosevelt Drummond, the only one of scores of indicted members of the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang in Maryland who has not faced the federal grand-jury charges brought against him.

For whatever reason, the federal warrant was later withdrawn, but Drummond is still being held on state drug charges. He had been arrested on gun charges in 2009, but they were dropped when he was indicted by the feds.

Good work, Officer Lawson.

[ivanbalt]

The next time you’ll hear about him, it’ll be, ‘Oh, we got a dead black man in Montana,’ and come to find out it’s him. He ain’t going back to prison. It’ll either be the police kill him trying to get him, or he just dies. Or he probably ODs or something.”

Or he tries to skimp on a fare. Good stuff.