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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Affidavit of Probable Cause # 2021-0866
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA V. TYRONE BAKER, JOSHUA QUILES, JHAMIR WINANS, RICKY
EVANS, SHAKEEM JOHNSON, RICHARD QUARLES JR., DANIEL ALLEN, JEFFREY ANCELL JR., AND ROBERT SMARRA JR.
AFFIDAVIT OF PROBABLE CAUSE
Your Affiants are Montgomery County Detective Bureau/Narcotics
Enforcement Team Detectives Andrew Rook and Michael Laverty. This
investigation began with the arrest of Chase Smith in Lower Merion Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for selling over two pounds of
methamphetamine to an undercover officer and continues to this day. The arrest
of Chase Smith led investigators to the realization that Smith is a member of a
large-scale methamphetamine drug trafficking organization that supplies
Montgomery County and the surrounding areas. However, their reach goes even
farther, to include New Jersey, Maryland, and West Virginia. This investigation
revealed that Joshua Quiles, Tyrone Baker, Jhamir Winans, Shakeem Johnson,
Richard Quarles Jr., and others connected to this drug trafficking organization
are acquiring large quantities of methamphetamine for distribution. The
methamphetamine is being shipped from a source(s) of supply, including Ricky
Evans, in Los Angeles, California. This investigation, which has included
physical surveillance; search warrants and court orders, including for phone
records, Pen Registers, and GPS Pings; and assistance from other law
enforcement agencies, resulted in your affiants applying for court order wire
intercepts for the phone numbers being used by Quiles, Baker, Winans, Quarles
Jr., Evans, Johnson, and the Instagram account being used by Winans.
Furthermore, investigation into this drug conspiracy revealed that they are
trafficking in large quantities of methamphetamine and other controlled
substances for profits – profits that your affiants allege not only fund their
lifestyle but also are used to fund their ongoing drug business.
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AFFIDAVIT OF PROBABLE CAUSE ................................................................................................................... i
AFFIANT BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................... vi
INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 1
HISTORICAL DRUG SHIPMENTS ................................................................................................................... 10
BACKGROUND OF INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTORS .................. 10
PACKAGE SEIZURES AND DELIVERIES .................................................................................................. 11
July 13, 2020 ................................................................................................................................... 11
November 30, 2020 ........................................................................................................................ 12
January 12, 2021 – Money Seizure ................................................................................................. 13
January 27, 2021 ............................................................................................................................. 14
March 11, 2021 ............................................................................................................................... 15
March 16, 2021 ............................................................................................................................... 17
March 23-25, 2021 .......................................................................................................................... 19
April 1, 2021 .................................................................................................................................... 22
August 19, 2021 .............................................................................................................................. 25
PARALLEL INVESTIGATION BY UPS/HSI ................................................................................................... 26
SUMMARY OF USPIS AND HSI SEIZURES ................................................................................................. 29
COURT ORDERED WIRE INTERCEPTS .......................................................................................................... 30
STATUS OF DRUG SUPPLY ....................................................................................................................... 33
BAKER CALIFORNIA TRIP (2/2/2022 – 2/7/2022) ................................................................................ 57
PACKAGE SHIPMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 71
SHIPMENTS TO TYRONE BAKER .......................................................................................................... 71
Baker Shipment #1 – 4.88lbs package delivered on February 9, 2022 ........................................... 71
Baker Shipment #2 – 10.41lbs package delivered on February 26, 2022 ....................................... 89
SHIPMENTS TO JHAMIR WINANS ...................................................................................................... 103
Winans Shipment #1 – FedEx Ground Package delivered on February 15, 2022 ......................... 103
Winans Shipment #2 – UPS Package delivered on or about February 18, 2022 .......................... 109
Winans Shipment #3 – FedEx Package delivered on February 21, 2022 ...................................... 112
Winans Shipment #4 – FedEx Package delivered and subsequently stolen on March 1, 2022 .... 113
Winans Shipment #5 – UPS Package shipped to New Jersey with expected delivery on March 15, 2022 .............................................................................................................................................. 135
SHIPMENTS TO JOSHUA QUILES ....................................................................................................... 146
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Quiles Shipment #1 – 3.22lbs package delivered on February 19, 2022 ...................................... 146
Quiles Shipment #2 – 4.36lbs package delivered on February 25, 2022 ...................................... 170
Quiles Shipment #3 – 3.04lbs package delivered on March 4, 2022 ............................................ 184
Quiles Shipment #4 and #5 – 5.69lb package delivered on March 10, 2022, and 4.5lb package expected delivery on march 12, 2022 ........................................................................................... 197
SHIPMENTS TO SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL” ................................................................... 213
Johnson Shipment #1 – 5.60lbs package delivered on February 23, 2022 ................................... 213
TYRONE BAKER AKA “BLACK” AKA “BAKE” AKA “OTMBLACK215”: 38-1 E.D. 2022 & 38-6 E.D. 2022 ...................................................................................................................................................... 234
“MONEY MAKER” PHONE ................................................................................................................. 236
Cronauer drug deal one: December 4, 2021................................................................................. 238
Cronauer drug deal two: December 26, 2021 .............................................................................. 240
“COO” drug deal one: January 28, 2022 ....................................................................................... 242
Robert Smarra Jr. AKA “Rob Bro Bro” ........................................................................................... 249
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal one: February 4, 2022 .................................................................. 249
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal two: February 15, 2022 ................................................................ 257
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal three: Orchestrated by Tyrone Baker, supplied by Jhamir Winans, delivered by Antione Mangum, Money drop to Winans – February 18, 2022 ......................... 261
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal four – February 25, 2022 ............................................................. 281
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal five – February 26, 2022 .............................................................. 286
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal six; sold by Baker and supplied by Quiles – February 28, 2022 ... 289
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal seven – March 3, 2022 ................................................................. 299
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal eight; sold by Baker and supplied by Quiles – March 4, 2022 ..... 305
Robert Smarra Jr. drug deal nine; sold by Baker and supplied by Quiles – March 10, 2022 .... 309
Samir Parrish-Starr drug deal one: February 9, 2022 ................................................................... 315
Samir Parrish-Starr drug deal two: February 18, 2022 ................................................................. 319
Samir Parrish-Starr drug deal three, four, and five: March 2, 3, and 5, 2022 .............................. 321
Darrell Carter drug deal one: February 9, 2022 ............................................................................ 335
Unknown Female, believed to be Valerie DiCicco, Drug deal one (Hirst Avenue): February 11, 2022 .............................................................................................................................................. 339
Unknown Female, believed to be Valerie DiCicco, Drug deal two: February 26, 2022 ................ 345
Unknown Female, believed to be Valerie DiCicco, Drug deal three: March 5, 2022 .................... 349
Maurice Jiggetts drug deal one - February 16, 2022 .................................................................... 354
Anthony Guasperini drug deal one: February 15, 2022 ................................................................ 364
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Anthony Guasperini drug deal two: February 18, 2022............................................................ 367
Anthony Guasperini drug deal three: February 26, 2022 ............................................................. 370
Linda Schmids drug deal one: October 6, 2021 ............................................................................ 376
Linda Schmids drug deal two: February 24, 2022 ......................................................................... 377
Linda Schmids drug deal three: February 26, 2022 ...................................................................... 380
Unknown male, believed to be Pat Vahey drug deal one (369 Lakeview Street, Drexel Hill): February 26, 2022 ......................................................................................................................... 382
Daniel Allen ................................................................................................................................... 388
Daniel Allen drug deal one: January 31, 2022 .......................................................................... 388
Daniel Allen drug deal two: February 1, 2022 .......................................................................... 391
Daniel Allen drug deal three: Feburary 2, 2022 ........................................................................ 392
Daniel Allen drug deal four: February 7, 2022 .......................................................................... 394
Daniel Allen drug deal five: February 10, 2022 ......................................................................... 395
Daniel Allen drug deal six: February 11, 2022 .......................................................................... 396
Daniel Allen drug deal seven: February 12, 2022 ..................................................................... 397
Daniel Allen drug deal eight: March 5, 2022 ............................................................................ 399
Surveillance of Daniel Allen: March 8, 2022 ............................................................................. 402
“John Wayne” drug deal one sold by Baker and supplied by quiles – March 4, 2022 ................. 402
JHAMIR WINANS AKA “MIRR” AKA “MIRR.21”: 38-2 E.D. 2022, 38-3 E.D. 2022, & 38-7 E.D. 2022 ..... 406
SURVEILLANCE ON FEBRUARY 8, 2022 – JHAMIR WINANS .............................................................. 434
INTERCEPTED CALLS RELATED TO WINANS’ PACKAGES ................................................................... 436
RAP VIDEO PRODUCTION – FEBRUARY 20, 2022 .............................................................................. 442
Unknown Male drug deal one: March 2, 2022 ................................................................................. 448
Unknown Male Sub-dealer: March 2, 2022 .................................................................................. 452
Winans intercepted call regarding gun trafficking: March 6, 2022 .................................................. 459
Winans delivery to Jeffrey Ancell: March 8, 2022 ............................................................................ 461
JOSHUA QUILES AKA “CHASE_BENJII” .................................................................................................. 467
PINGER PHONE RECORDS FOR PHONE NUMBERS 215-436-8669 AND 610-934-2154 .................... 468
SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL”: 38-8 E.D. 2022 ....................................................................... 480
Sandy Quiles drug deal one: February 25, 2022 ....................................................................... 480
Sandy Quiles drug deal two: March 4, 2022 ............................................................................. 482
“Joe Phillips” drug deal one: February 26, 2022 ....................................................................... 499
“Joe Phillips” drug deal two: March 4, 2022 ............................................................................. 501
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Unknown male “Jonathan James” drug deal one – Four pound deal middled by Johnson: March 1, 2022 ...................................................................................................................................... 509
RICKY EVANS AKA “RICO”: DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 AND DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ............................... 518
RICHARD QUARLES JR. (aka “_ramborich”): ......................................................................................... 534
ZACHARY SMITH .................................................................................................................................... 552
Zachary Smith drug deal one: February 26, 2022 ..................................................................... 554
CASHAPP records .................................................................................................................................. 564
DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION (EVANS, QUILES, WINANS, BAKER, JOHNSON) .............................. 567
ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED .............................................................................................................. 583
SUMMATION ............................................................................................................................................. 583
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AFFIANT BACKGROUND
Training and Experience of Investigating Detective Montgomery County Detective Bureau
Narcotics Enforcement Team Detective Andrew Rook
Detective Andrew Rook is currently assigned to the Montgomery County
Detective Bureau’s Narcotics Enforcement Team. He is employed by the Lower
Merion Township Police Department in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. As
part of his present assignment, Detective Rook is involved in investigating
violations of The Controlled Substances, Drugs, Device, and Cosmetic Act –
Possession of a Controlled Substance and related offenses (35 Pa. P.S., Section
780-113). From his training and experience, he possesses an understanding of
the methods employed by individuals in the illegal use, possession, distribution,
and purchase of controlled substances.
In February 2012, Detective Rook was hired as a police officer by the Lower
Merion Township Police Department, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and
was assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division. Detective Rook is a law enforcement
officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the meaning of section 5702
of Title 18 Pa. C.S.A. and as such is empowered to make arrests for criminal
offenses enumerated in Title 18 Pa. C.S.A. Detective Rook has investigated
numerous criminal offenses enumerated in 18 Pa. C.S.A. Many of these
investigations have resulted in the arrest and successful prosecution of
defendants charged with those offenses.
In January 2016, Detective Rook was assigned to the Investigations Unit
and trained to be a Platoon Investigator. As a Platoon Investigator, he was
assigned and assisted in investigations involving, theft, access device fraud,
fraud by deception, burglary, robbery, assaults, identity theft, DUI, and
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violations of the Pennsylvania Controlled Substance, Drug, Device, and Cosmetic
Act. During his time as a police officer, investigator, and detective, he has
interviewed hundreds of individuals, including victims, witnesses, suspects, and
defendants.
In March 2018, Detective Rook was sworn in by The Honorable Judge Risa
Ferman as a Special County Detective as a member of the Montgomery County
Drug Task Force. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Narcotic Officer’s
Association.
Detective Rook successfully completed wiretapping and electronic
surveillance training as mandated in Title 18, section 5724 of the Pennsylvania
Crimes Code. As a result, he received his class “A” Certification (certification #A-
5651). He has participated in multiple wiretap investigations as a monitor of
target phone lines, transcribed intercepted phone calls, and conducted street
surveillance.
In January 2020, Detective Rook was assigned to the Narcotics
Enforcement Team of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. In
addition to assisting members of the Narcotics Enforcement Team, Detective
Rook is assigned to a task force to assist Montgomery County Police Departments
with fatal overdose death investigations. Detective Rook has been recognized and
testified as an expert witness in the areas of narcotics operations and
terminology at the District Court level in Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties.
He has also prepared expert reports in the areas of narcotics operations and
terminology for use in Drug Delivery Resulting in Death prosecutions at the
Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
In September 2021, Detective Rook graduated from Top Gun Class #26 –
Investigating and Prosecuting Drug Cases, an intensive drug enforcement
training course. The course sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Police,
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Pennsylvania Narcotic Officer’s Association, and Northeast Counterdrug
Training Center included both in-class training taught by recognized drug
experts and prosecutors and investigative workshops. The course included
training regarding Drug Recognition, Aviation Aerial Surveillance, Interview and
Interrogating Drug Suspects, Drug Labs, Surviving an Armed Encounter, Ethical
and Legal Issues Concerning Informants, Surveillance Tactics, Search and
Seizure, Undercover Techniques, Fundamental Techniques of Raid Execution,
and Undercover Survival.
In September 2021, Detective Rook attended Criminal Apprehension and
Investigative Techniques taught by Detective Mike Ambrosio of the Greensboro
NC Police Department. The 3-day course was both instructional and hands-on.
It focused on the use of cellphone and cellphone data in criminal investigations,
including the use of cellphone toll records, call detail records, and Google
records. During the course, tactics for serving warrants in vehicles and houses
was also taught.
Detective Rook has received training related to patrol, investigations, crisis
intervention, interviewing, and conducting drug, property crime, vehicle code
violation investigations, and other criminal investigations from the Pennsylvania
State Police, Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Northeast
Counterdrug Training Center, Montgomery County Municipal Police Academy,
Montgomery County Emergency Services, Middle Atlantic Great Lakes Organized
Crime Law Enforcement Network, and the Institute for Law Enforcement
Training, as well as current and former Law Enforcement Officers.
Detective Rook has written and/or participated in the execution of
numerous search and seizure warrants, resulting in the seizure of large
quantities of controlled substances, including marijuana, cocaine,
heroin/fentanyl, methamphetamine, and prescription pills, controlled
substances paraphernalia, including scales and packaging materials, large
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amounts of U.S. currency, drug customer lists, and other documents related to
the transportation, ordering, purchasing, and distribution of controlled
substances. Detective Rook has experience managing confidential informants,
conducting surveillance, and working in an undercover capacity.
Training and Experience of Investigating Detective Montgomery County Detective Bureau
Narcotics Enforcement Team Detective Michael Laverty
Detective Michael Laverty is employed by the Upper Merion Township
Police Department located in Montgomery County. Detective Laverty is currently
on loan to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and is assigned to
Montgomery County Detective Bureau’s Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET).
Detective Laverty is a graduate of the Reading Police Academy, which he
graduated from in 2011. Detective Laverty has been employed as a sworn police
officer with the Upper Merion Police Department since January 2012.
Additionally, he is a sworn member of the Montgomery County Municipal Drug
Task Force, a member of the Pennsylvania Narcotics Officers’ Association, a
member of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators and a
member of the International Association of Undercover Officers. In his capacity
of a police officer, Detective Laverty has been involved in hundreds of
investigations for violations of the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and
Cosmetic Act of 1972 and violations of the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act.
During these investigations, Detective Laverty has served as both the lead
investigator and in a secondary support role.
Upon his hiring with the Upper Merion Police Department, Detective
Laverty became a member of the patrol division. During his time as a member of
the patrol division, Detective Laverty completed several training courses related
to narcotics, including The Institute for Law Enforcement Education’s Traffic
Control/Drug Interdiction course. He also attended a three-day “Street Crimes”
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seminar, which taught effective interview tactics, intelligence gathering methods,
covert surveillance techniques, how to cultivate confidential informants, and the
detection of hidden vehicle compartments as well as advanced search methods.
Detective Laverty has attended the International Association of Undercover
Officers annual Covert Operations Training Conference, which is a weeklong
training that covers topics including covert operations, virtual currency,
undercover reverses, drug cartels, emerging drug trends, the recruitment and
handling of informants, human trafficking, firearms investigations, and
investigations and identification of counterfeit items and their links to terrorism.
Additionally, Detective Laverty has completed The Institute for Law Enforcement
Education’s Interviewing Course I, II, III, and IV which began with introductory
interviewing techniques and progressed to advanced interview and interrogation
methods.
In January 2017 Detective Laverty was assigned to the Upper Merion
Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit, where the majority of his
responsibilities involved investigating drug related crimes. In addition to the
investigation of drug related crimes, Detective Laverty regularly uses his training,
knowledge, and experience with drug investigations to serve in an undercover
capacity, to assist investigations being conducted by other members of law
enforcement. In his time with the Special Investigations Unit, Detective Laverty
attended several drug related trainings, including Top Gun, a nationally
recognized weeklong undercover drug investigation school that is specifically
designed for undercover narcotics investigator. As of 2021, Detective Laverty has
been a member of the Top Gun faculty.
Additionally, Detective Laverty attended the National Criminal
Enforcement Association’s National Interdiction Conference, a weeklong training
that covered topics such as drug trafficking indicators both on the highway and
inside/outside hotels, hidden compartment detection in both commercial and
personal vehicles, indicators, and methods and trends of bulk cash smuggling.
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Detective Laverty received training in the use of cell phone technology during
criminal investigations taught by Geocell Communications Intelligence that
focused on methods used by law enforcement to detect ongoing criminal activity
using cell phone technology as well as methods of proving criminal activity using
cell phone technology during follow up investigations. Detective Laverty has also
attended Opioid Overdose Death Investigations training hosted by Wicklander-
Zulawski & Associates. This comprehensive two-day course trained on the topics
of opioids, opioid deaths, and the prosecution of drug overdose deaths as
homicides. Detective Laverty has been trained by the Northeast Counterdrug
Training Center in narcotics enforcements and trafficking investigations in
hotels/motels and parcel/freight carriers during a two-day course that covered
trends, methods, and practices commonly utilized by drug traffickers to facilitate
their illicit business and evade detection of law enforcement. Detective Laverty
successfully completed the Thermo Scientific TruNarc Analyzer Training Course
in November of 2020, and he is qualified in using the Raman Spectrometer device
for presumptive field testing of controlled substances.
Detective Laverty is an “investigative or law enforcement officer” as defined
by Section 5702 of the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance
Act. In such capacity, Detective Laverty has successfully completed wiretapping
and electronic surveillance training as mandated in Section 5724 of Title 18 of
PA C.S.A. As a result, he has received his Class “A” certification (Certification #:
5646) to monitor, utilize, maintain, and possess electronic surveillance
equipment.
Detective Laverty is currently recognized by the Delaware Valley
Intelligence Center (DVIC) as a Field Intelligence Officer (FIO). FIOs consist of
members of federal, state, and local law enforcement as well as members of the
Department of Corrections, probation and parole, and other designated criminal
justice agencies. Through this role, he has received specialized training in the
recognition of pre-operational indicators of criminal activity.
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In the course of drug investigations, Detective Laverty has participated in
the preparation and execution of numerous search and seizure warrants
resulting in the seizure of large quantities of Controlled Substances including
cocaine, cocaine base (crack), heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA
(ecstasy), synthetic marijuana, prescription drugs, including but not limited to
Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Xanax, fraudulent prescriptions, packaging
implements and other paraphernalia involved in the distribution of Controlled
Substances, firearms, large amounts of United States Currency, other assets of
wealth, drug records, customer lists and other documents relating to the
ordering, purchasing and distribution of Controlled Substances. As a result of
his training, knowledge, and experience, and participation in drug and firearms
investigations, Detective Laverty has been recognized as an expert in drug
investigations, drug related jargon in the Montgomery County Court of Common
Pleas. Detective Laverty has been recognized as an expert in firearms at
Magisterial District Court in Montgomery County as well.
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INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION
L - Tyrone Baker: “OTMBLACK215” C - Jhamir Winans: “MIRR.21”
R - Joshua Quiles: “CHASE_BENJII”
TARGETS OF INVESTIGATION
The targets of this drug investigation are Joshua Quiles, Tyrone Baker,
Jhamir Winans, Richard Quarles Jr., Shakeem Johnson, and Ricky Evans; their
criminal associates; their sources of methamphetamine; and their significant
customers.
Tyrone Baker Jr., aka Tyrone Powell Baker Jr., is a twenty-eight (28) year
old, black male, born on March 1, 1993. Baker is five feet nine inches tall, weighs
approximately one-hundred ninety-five (195) pounds, and has black hair and
brown eyes. Baker can further be identified by Pennsylvania State Identification
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Number (SID) as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation Number; however, to
comply with provisions of the Case Records Public Access Policy of the United
Judicial System of Pennsylvania, this information will not be included in this
affidavit although it is known by your affiants. The address provided by Baker
on his Pennsylvania Driver’s license is 57 Melrose Avenue, E. Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania.
Ricky Evans aka Ricky Roger Evans aka Swagg Moniker aka X Swagg is
a twenty-eight (28) year old, black male, born on November 2, 1993. Evans is six
feet one inch tall, weighs approximately one-hundred fifty (150) pounds, and has
black hair and brown eyes. Evans can further be identified by California State
Identification Number (SID) as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation Number;
however, to comply with provisions of the Case Records Public Access Policy of
the United Judicial System of Pennsylvania, this information will not be included
in this affidavit although it is known by your affiants. The address provided by
Evans on his California Driver’s license is 12562 Brookshire Avenue, Unit 2,
Downey, California, but this investigation has revealed that Evans lives at 548
South Spring Street, Unit B5, Los Angeles, California.
Shakeem Johnson aka Shakeem Maurie Johnson is a twenty-seven (27)
year old, black male, born on February 14, 1995. Johnson is six feet tall, weighs
approximately one-hundred ninety (190) pounds, and has black hair and brown
eyes. Johnson can further be identified by Pennsylvania State Identification
Number (SID) as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation Number; however, to
comply with provisions of the Case Records Public Access Policy of the United
Judicial System of Pennsylvania, this information will not be included in this
affidavit although it is known by your affiants. The address provided by Johnson
on his Pennsylvania Driver’s license is 2649 S. Felton Street, Philadelphia, PA
19142, but this investigation has revealed that Johnson lives at 4601 Flat Rock
Road, Apartment 509, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Richard Quarles Jr. is a twenty-three (23) year old, black male, born on
June 4, 1998. Quarles is five feet, ten inches tall, weighs approximately one-
hundred sixty (160) pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. Quarles can
further be identified by Pennsylvania State Identification Number (SID) as well
as Federal Bureau of Investigation Number; however, to comply with provisions
of the Case Records Public Access Policy of the United Judicial System of
Pennsylvania, this information will not be included in this affidavit although it
is known by your affiants. The address provided by Quarles on his Pennsylvania
Driver’s license is 4236 Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joshua Quiles is a thirty-one (31) year old, white male, born on December
14, 1990. Quiles is five feet ten inches tall, weighs approximately two-hundred
fifteen (215) pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. Quiles can further be
identified by Pennsylvania State Identification Number (SID) as well as Federal
Bureau of Investigation Number; however, to comply with provisions of the Case
Records Public Access Policy of the United Judicial System of Pennsylvania, this
information will not be included in this affidavit although it is known by your
affiants. The address provided by Quiles on his Pennsylvania Driver’s license is
2613 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but this investigation has
revealed Quiles resides at 625 South Goddard Blvd., Apt 546, King of Prussia,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Jhamir Winans aka Jhamir Harold Winans is a twenty-two (22) year old,
black male, born on December 20, 1999. Winans is five feet seven inches tall,
weighs approximately one-hundred seventy (170) pounds, and has black hair
and brown eyes. Winans can further be identified by Pennsylvania State
Identification Number (SID) as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation Number;
however, to comply with provisions of the Case Records Public Access Policy of
the United Judicial System of Pennsylvania, this information will not be included
in this affidavit although it is known by your affiants. The address provided by
Winans on his Pennsylvania Driver’s license is 2651 North 8th Street,
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but this investigation has revealed Winans lives at
181 North Pottstown Pike, Apartment 1048, Exton, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
INTRODUCTION
Due to the widespread scope of the drug trafficking activities of this drug
trafficking organization, the following law enforcement agencies combined their
resources: the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office; the United States
Postal Inspection Service (USPIS); Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); the
Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General; Delaware County Criminal
Investigations Division; Drug Enforcement Agency-Group 32 Philadelphia
Division and Group 2 Los Angeles Division; Pennsylvania State Police – Drug
Law; Chester County District Attorney’s Office; and the Upper Darby Police
Department.
This investigation has revealed that Quiles, Baker, Winans, Quarles Jr.,
Johnson, and others connected to their drug trafficking organization are
acquiring large quantities of methamphetamine from a source(s) of supply
located in the State of California, including an individual named Ricky Evans.
These large quantities of drugs are being shipped to Baker, Winans, Quiles,
Quarles Jr., Johnson, and others involved in the conspiracy, via the United
States Postal Service (USPS), FedEx, and the United Postal Service (UPS) from
different Post Offices, UPS Stores, and other shipping stores in other states,
including the Los Angeles area of California. Based on their training, knowledge,
and experience, the affiants are aware that there has been an increase in the
availability of methamphetamine over the last several years. The availability or
supply of methamphetamine has risen so greatly with demand that a pound of
the drug went from approximately $20,000 to $25,000 in 2015 to approximately
$4,000 in the beginning of 2021 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Since
then, methamphetamine has become increasingly more available which has
caused the price to decrease even more. Moreover, the methamphetamine that
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is flooding today’s market is nearly pure, which has also led to an increase in
methamphetamine related overdose deaths.
Methamphetamine is a strong and highly addictive drug that affects the
central nervous system. The drug can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood
pressure, and damage to the small blood vessels in the brain. Methamphetamine
typically resembles small fragments of glass or shiny white “rocks” of various
sizes. Methamphetamine is commonly abused because of the long-lasting
euphoric effects it produces on the human body.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, from 2010 to 2020,
there has been a significant increase in the amount of methamphetamine seized
by U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 8,900 pounds in 2010 to
approximately 157,000 pounds in 2020. These numbers can be attributed to
Mexican cartels and their establishment of so-called clandestine “super labs”
located in Mexico. These “super labs” produce hundreds of pounds of
methamphetamine daily with precursor products purchased directly from China
and other sources in Asia. The methamphetamine is then smuggled across the
Southwest border from Mexico into the United States through various methods
including but not limited to individual migrants, passenger/commercial vehicles
with hidden compartments, shipping containers, aircraft, drones, and
underground tunnels. As the United States continues to grapple with an opioid
epidemic, Mexican drug cartels have been expanding their methamphetamine
production on an industrial scale, flooding the market with relatively pure and
cheap methamphetamine. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience,
your affiants know that most drugs such as methamphetamine, cocaine and
heroin/fentanyl enter the United States of America at the direction of Mexican
drug cartels through the southern border. These drugs are then transported or
otherwise delivered to drug trafficking organizations throughout the country for
further distribution. The affiants know through their training, knowledge, and
experience that the State of California is a source state for controlled substances
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and that the Los Angeles area is known for the wholesale distribution of
methamphetamine.
Separate from the exponential growth in methamphetamine distribution
over the last decade, luxury apartment complexes have become popular within
the suburban communities surrounding Philadelphia. At an increasing rate,
these complexes are being built within Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware
counties. These apartments are designed to provide an urban style living
experience within a suburban setting, while maintaining quick and convenient
access to the City of Philadelphia.
As these luxury apartment complexes have been built, law enforcement in
Montgomery County has identified a growing trend of high-ranking members of
drug trafficking organizations using these luxury apartments to not only reside,
but also to facilitate the illicit activity that comes with running a large-scale drug
trafficking enterprise. The amenities that these complexes provide are desirable
to drug dealers as they offer a secured living environment that protects them
from both law enforcement and rival drug dealers; a flashy appearance that
allows them to embellish their wealth to increase their legitimacy within the
criminal element; and relatively easy access to the City of Philadelphia.
Through their investigation, your affiants have identified a specific drug
trafficking organization conducting business in both Upper Merion Township,
Montgomery County and in West Whiteland, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
More specifically, Joshua Quiles and Jhamir Winans are using or have used
multiple apartments in the luxury apartment community Cirro King of Prussia
to help facilitate the trafficking of pound quantities of controlled substances,
including methamphetamine sourced from California on a regular basis. The
group’s reach is beyond the Philadelphia area, with drugs being delivered as far
away as West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and other states. This group is
further suspected of having delivered pound quantities of methamphetamine to
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sub-dealers living in Lower Providence Township and Pottstown Borough, both
communities located in Montgomery County, PA.
As with all criminal conspiracies, the subjects of this investigation
communicate in many ways out of necessity. For example, the facts of this
investigation reveal that this group of drug traffickers utilizes multiple
communication platforms to facilitate their drug trafficking enterprise, including
Instagram Direct Messenger, FaceTime, and traditionally through their cellular
phones. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants are
aware that drug traffickers utilize multiple communication platforms or
telephone numbers to thwart a law enforcement investigation knowing that at
any given time their communications could be intercepted and used against
them for prosecution purposes. Specifically, in this investigation, your affiants
believe that these drug traffickers are often using FaceTime because they are
aware that FaceTime uses end-to-end encryption which cannot be intercepted
by Law Enforcement.
Furthermore, this investigation has revealed that Tyrone Baker, Jhamir
Winans, Joshua Quiles, and a Shakeem Johnson are in communication, via their
respective cellular telephones, with Ricky Evans, a large-scale
methamphetamine trafficker operating in and around Los Angeles, California.
Using a variety of investigatory methods including physical surveillance,
electronic surveillance, monitoring of social media posts, analysis of call detail
records, analysis of a cell phone download, arrestee interviews, the review of
police reports from other law enforcement agencies, and court ordered wire
intercepts, your affiants have identified several members of this drug trafficking
organization. These members include Joshua Quiles, Jhamir Winans, Tyrone
Baker, Richard Quarles Jr., Shakeem Johnson, Jeffrey Ancell, Ricky Evans,
Chase Smith, Zachary Smith, and others. Through the review of call detail
records, including a live pen register, and court ordered wire intercepts, your
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affiants know that Baker, Winans, Johnson, and Quiles are in communication
with Ricky Evans, of Los Angeles, California. In an independent investigation
discussed below, the United States Postal Inspectors identified Ricky Evans as a
shipper of pound quantities of methamphetamine.
During their parallel investigation, the United States Postal Inspectors
seized approximately twenty (20) pounds of methamphetamine shipped from
California to addresses associated with Winans, Baker, Quiles and Quarles Jr.,
in the Philadelphia area.
In another independent investigation, Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) seized approximately forty (40) pounds of methamphetamine shipped from
California to addresses associated with the targets of this investigation. Both
investigations have since been combined with this investigation based out of
Montgomery County to try and dismantle this drug trafficking organization.
Additionally, Quarles Jr., Robert Smarra and Chase Smith (prior to his
March 2021 arrest) were identified as close associates or sub-dealers of the
commanding members of the drug trafficking organization and are believed to be
responsible for the distribution of pound quantities of methamphetamine on a
regular basis. Quarles Jr., the self-proclaimed “driver” for the group is believed
to be associated with the Philadelphia street gang “Homicide Camp,” whose
slogan is “Catch a Body or Be a Body,” an apparent reference to the group’s belief
that they must commit murder to avoid being killed themselves. Social media
posts have shown that Quarles Jr. is heavily armed on a regular basis.
Furthermore, Winans is also a known a known associate/member of the
“Homicide Camp.”
Chase Smith and Zachary Smith are believed to be brothers, and call detail
records and court ordered wire intercepts show that Zachary Smith is in regular
communication with Tyrone Baker. As stated earlier in the affidavit, Chase Smith
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was arrested in March 2021 for delivering multiple pounds of methamphetamine
to an undercover Montgomery County detective in Lower Merion, Montgomery
County, PA. In a post-arrest interview, Chase Smith identified Baker as his
source of methamphetamine and stated that Joshua Quiles of King of Prussia,
Montgomery County is the leader of the organization. Chase Smith remains
incarcerated related to this arrest, and a review of prison phone calls has shown
that he remains in contact with Baker.
During this investigation, your affiants have identified social media posts
and stories, specifically on the Instagram social media platform, from accounts
associated with Quiles, Winans, and Quarles Jr. In their Instagram posts, Quiles,
Winans, and Quarles Jr. display their wealth by showing pictures of themselves
with large quantities of U.S. Currency, expensive jewelry, watches, firearms, and
expensive vehicles. This investigation has also revealed that the group uses
Instagram to facilitate their drug trafficking activities and to post pictures of
locations and travel while they are conducting their illegal activities.
Investigation has revealed that this drug trafficking organization is
working throughout Montgomery County, Chester County, Delaware County,
Lackawanna County, and Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania. Additionally,
your affiants have identified locations in West Virginia, New Jersey, and
Maryland as areas where individuals are being sourced methamphetamine by
this same drug trafficking organization.
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HISTORICAL DRUG SHIPMENTS
BACKGROUND OF INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED
BY UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTORS
The origins of this Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) can be traced back
to March of 2020, when the United States Postal Inspectors seized two (2) USPS
packages containing methamphetamine with similar indicators of criminal
activity.
1. The first package (Priority Mail Express Parcel) which contained
approximately 2.16 pounds of methamphetamine was identified by
number “EJ 178 381 928 US,” addressed to 771 E. Pike Street, Pontiac,
Michigan, and had been mailed from Paramount (Los Angeles County), CA,
90723. This seizure led to the identification of the second package listed
below.
2. The second package which contained approximately 1 pound of
methamphetamine was identified by tracking number
“9505513820730084332059.” The parcel was addressed to “Tyrone
Banks, 814 N. Warnock Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19123,” with a return
address of “Brittney Harris 9442 Flower Street Bellflower, CA 90706.” It
should be noted that the addressee’s name, “Tyrone Banks” is similar to
that of one of the targets of investigation, Tyrone Baker.
Following the seizure of the parcel shipped to Philadelphia, USPS received
several phone inquiries in reference to the seized parcel, including a call from
phone number 323-495-8878. It should be noted that area code 323 is the Los
Angeles area of California. This phone number was run through several law
enforcement databases, including CellHawk by Hawk Analytics, which
uncovered that the phone is associated with “Rick James,” a suspected
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pseudonym of Ricky Evans1, this drug trafficking organization’s California
source of methamphetamine supply. Postal Inspections submitted the seized
parcels to National Forensic Laboratory for analysis. Through their analysis,
National Forensic Laboratory was able to determine that Ricky Evans’
fingerprints were on “EJ 178 381 928 US,” the parcel seized in Michigan.
Following this discovery, the Postal Inspectors Philadelphia Division began to
investigate and identified additional addresses related to methamphetamine
shipments made by Ricky and/or Richard Evans from the Los Angeles area of
California to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
Through the analysis of USPS parcels mailed from the Los Angeles, CA
area to the Philadelphia, PA area, specifically addresses associated with Ricky
Evans, Tyrone Baker, Jhamir Winans, Joshua Quiles and other members of this
drug trafficking organization; physical surveillance conducted by Postal
Inspectors and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau; and the seizure of
several of these parcels, your affiants have been able to attribute multiple
shipments of seized methamphetamine to this drug trafficking organization. As
described below, these parcels were linked by the names and return addresses
used on the labels, recipient names and addresses, and IP Addresses used to
track the parcels.
PACKAGE SEIZURES AND DELIVERIES
JULY 13, 2020
On July 13, 2020, Postal Inspectors intercepted Priority Mail Express
parcel #EJ213304607US addressed to “Naseem Williams 2651 N. 8th Street
1 CALIFORNIA SOURCE OF METHAMPHETAMINE SUPPLY The California source of supply, Ricky Evans, has used multiple phone numbers with area codes in the Los Angeles area with what are believed to be fictitious subscriber information, including “Rick James” and “James Anderson” to communicate with Baker, Winans, Quiles, and Johnson. It is your affiants’ belief that all of these phone numbers listed above are being used by the same person or group of people.
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Philadelphia, PA 19133,” with a return address of “T.J. Jackson 12559
Brookshire Ave 103 Downey, CA 90242.” The parcel was mailed from Paramount,
CA on July 10, 2020, and contained approximately three pounds of
methamphetamine.
Investigation of the Subject Parcel through the United States Postal Service
as well as law enforcement database CLEAR, showed the name “T.J. Jackson”
does not associate to the return address. Further, the name “Naseem Williams”
does not associate to the delivery address. However, 2651 N. 8th Street,
Philadelphia, PA is the address listed on Jhamir Winans’ Pennsylvania Driver’s
License. Further, this investigation has shown that Ricky Evans, the drug
trafficking organization’s methamphetamine source, was associated with 12562
Brookshire Avenue, in Downey, CA. While that is not an exact match of the
package’s return address, your affiants have identified a trend within this
criminal organization where the participants slightly alter their mailing or return
addresses from their actual addresses. Your affiants believe that this is an
attempt to elude law enforcement in the event the package is seized.
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
On November 30, 2020, Postal Inspectors in Los Angeles, California
identified Priority Mail Express parcel #EJ443604194US addressed to “Ricky
Evans 12562 Brookshire Ave Unit 2 Downey, CA 90242.” The parcel was mailed
from Philadelphia and had a return address of “John Kubatch 13 Melrose Ave
Lansdowne, PA 19050.” Much like the July 15, 2020, seizure, the return address
of 13 Melrose Ave, Lansdowne is not an exact match of Tyrone Baker’s address,
but nearby 57 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, PA where he is associated. Based on
the criminal indicators related to their ongoing investigation and a positive
canine alert, Postal Inspectors opened the parcel which contained $21,000 in US
Currency. The currency was concealed in vacuum sealed plastic bags and hidden
in the cardboard packaging of a toy truck as shown below. Based on the belief
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that this money was an intended payment for methamphetamine, the money was
seized by Postal Inspectors.
JANUARY 12, 2021 – MONEY SEIZURE
On January 12, 2021, Postal Inspectors in Los Angeles, CA identified
Priority Mail Express parcel EL370351259US addressed to “12562 Brookshire
Ave. Apt 2 Downey, CA 90242.” The parcel was mailed from the Philadelphia area
and had a return address of “Franklin Scurry 48 Melrose Ave Lansdowne, PA
19050.” From this investigation, your affiants know that Franklin Scurry resides
at 57 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, PA; lists the address on his Pennsylvania
Driver’s License; and is believed to be the half-brother of Tyrone Baker. Based
on the criminal indicators related to their ongoing investigation and a positive
canine alert, the parcel was opened and found to contain $10,000 in US
Currency. As shown below, the currency was concealed in plastic bags and
hidden inside a plastic Tonka toy, much like the seizure on July 15, 2020. The
$10,000 US Currency and packaging materials were seized.
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JANUARY 27, 2021
On January 27, 2021, Postal Inspectors identified USPS PME parcel
#EJ562474509US addressed to 51 Melrose Ave., Lansdowne, PA and
#9505514208751027676307 addressed to 3701 Conshohocken Ave. Apt. 513
Philadelphia, PA. The parcels were mailed from Los Angeles, CA on January 27,
2021. They also identified a third package that was sent from Inglewood,
California to 2651 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia.
The first parcel was addressed to “51 Melrose Ave East Lansdowne, PA
19050,” and had a return address of “Jay Angeles 3112 West 67th St. LA,
CA 90043.” A search of CLEAR showed the sender “Jay Angeles” did not
associate to the return address. However, through this investigation your
affiants know that 3112 West 67th Street, Los Angeles, California is
associated with Ricky and Richard Evans and is the address listed on
Richard Evans’ California driver’s license. Pennsylvania Office of the
Attorney General Special Agent Weber’s narcotic detection canine “Mizu”
alerted to the presence of narcotics in the parcel, which was subsequently
opened and found to contain approximately two pounds of
methamphetamine.
The second parcel was addressed to “Nicole Stevenson 3701
Conshohocken Ave Apt 513,” and had a return address of “3111 W 67th
St. Los Angeles, CA 90043.” Through this investigation, your affiants are
aware that 3701 Conshohocken Avenue, Apartment 512, Philadelphia, PA
is associated with Jhamir Winans. Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney
General Special Agent Weber’s narcotic detection canine “Mizu” alerted to
the presence of narcotics in the parcel, which was subsequently opened
and found to contain approximately two pounds of methamphetamine.
The methamphetamine from both parcels was seized and turned over to the
Montgomery County Detective Bureau.
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The third parcel, believed to be related to the trafficking of
methamphetamine of this drug trafficking organization that went
unseized, was sent from Inglewood, California to 2651 N. 8th Street. Your
affiants know from this investigation that 2651 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia,
PA is the address on Jhamir Winans driver’s license. Based on their
training, knowledge, and experience with drug investigations as well as the
facts and circumstances of this investigation, your affiants know that this
drug trafficking organization divides their methamphetamine into smaller
quantities and ships them in multiple parcels to different addresses. This
practice decreases the risk of shipping controlled substances, such that if
any of the packages are seized by law enforcement, the remainder may still
reach their destinations.
MARCH 11, 2021
On March 11, 2021, Postal Inspectors intercepted parcel
#EJ434253225US after multiple indicators of criminal activity related to this
investigation were observed. The parcel was mailed from Downey, CA on March
10, 2021. The parcel was addressed to “Kamena Payton 51 Melrose Ave East
Lansdowne, PA 19050,” and had a return address of “Richard E. 12563
Brookshire Ave Apt. 101 Downey, CA 90242.” Both addresses have been used
during previous methamphetamine shipments between Ricky Evans and Tyrone
Baker.
On March 11, 2021, Postal Inspectors met with Special Agent Robert
Weber with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General and his narcotic
detection canine “Mizu.” Agent Weber advised Postal Inspectors that “Mizu”
alerted positive to the presence of illegal narcotics inside the parcel. Located
inside the parcel was approximately two pounds of methamphetamine. The
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methamphetamine was seized and turned over to the Montgomery County
Detective Bureau.
On March 22, 2021, Los Angeles Division Postal Inspector Alvarez obtained
video surveillance from the Downey, CA post office from March 10, 2021. The
video showed a black male adult paying for and mailing PME EJ434253225US.
Alvarez was able to positively identify the male in the video as Ricky Evans.
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MARCH 16, 2021
On March 16, 2021, four packages were shipped to addresses associated
with this investigation:
1. 51 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, PA – associated with Tyrone Baker
2. 4236 Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, PA – associated with Richard
Quarles Jr.
3. 3701 Conshohocken Avenue, Apt 512, Philadelphia, PA – associated with
Jhamir Winans
4. 157 Edgewood Street, Philadelphia, PA – associated with Tyrone Baker
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Through this investigation your affiants know that these addresses are
associated with Baker, Quarles Jr., and Winans, as indicated above. All four
packages had an identical return address of “12259 Brookshire Avenue, Downey,
California,” which from this investigation is known to be associated with Ricky
Evans.
Associated with these shipments, Postal Inspectors conducted
surveillance on March 18, 2021, related to the delivery of the parcel shipped to
51 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Postal Inspectors Tier, Morales, and Green-
Spand conducted surveillance of the delivery of the parcel to 51 Melrose Ave. At
approximately 5:44 PM the USPS mail carrier delivered the parcel to 51 Melrose
Ave. The carrier placed the parcel on the stoop near the front door.
At approximately 6:35 PM, an unknown black male was dropped off near
the residence by a dark colored BMW SUV. The male picked up the subject parcel
and entered the residence at 51 Melrose Ave.
During surveillance Postal Inspectors observed a white Dodge Charger
pass through the area multiple times. At approximately 7:29, Postal Inspectors
observed a white Dodge Charger bearing PA License plate LMS5730 park on
Melrose Ave near 57 Melrose Avenue. A black male wearing a grey hoodie, white
shirt and black pants (later identified by Postal Inspectors as Tyrone Baker)
exited the Charger and walked to 51 Melrose Avenue and after knocking on the
door, entered the house.
About two minutes after entering the house, Baker exited the house
carrying a USPS parcel. Baker walked to the Charger and opened the door. He
then walked to 57 Melrose Ave and entered the residence. A few minutes later,
Baker exited the residence at 57 Melrose and approached the Charger. He
opened the door, then crossed Melrose Ave to the opposite side. Postal Inspectors
could see he was carrying the USPS parcel. Baker approached a garbage can
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near a driveway and bent down out of sight for a few moments. He then crossed
back over Melrose Ave and was not carrying anything in his hands. The black
male entered the residence at 57 Melrose.
A few minutes later, Baker exited 57 Melrose and entered the Charger. He
drove South on Melrose Ave and pulled over near the intersection of Baltimore
Pike. Inspector Green-Spand observed Baker cross the street and enter the
Lansdowne Deli. A few minutes later, he exited the Lansdowne Deli and walked
to the Charger and opened the door. He then walked to a green door next to the
Lansdowne Deli, opened the door, and reached inside. He closed the door and
walked back to the front of the Deli, where he talked with three other black
males. A few minutes later he entered the Charger and left the area.
Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with
the facts of this investigation, and the surveillance of Tyrone Baker retrieving a
package matching the patterns of parcels containing methamphetamine, it is
their opinion that this corroborates Baker’s involvement in receiving
methamphetamine shipped to addresses he’s associated with from California.
MARCH 23-25, 2021
During the three-day span of March 23, 2021, to March 25, 2021, ten
parcels (across six addresses) were shipped from California to Pennsylvania and
included addresses associated with identified members of this drug trafficking
organization. These addresses included:
3701 Conshohocken Ave, Apt 517, Philadelphia, PA (Winans) - 2x
4236 Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, PA (Quarles Jr.) - 3x
51 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, PA (Baker)
2651 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA (Winans) - 2x
2753 N. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA (Baker)
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3224 McMichael St., Apt F, Philadelphia, PA (The return address on this
parcel was associated with Ricky Evans)
Three of these parcels were sent to 4236 Pennsgrove Street, two were sent
to 2651 N. 8th Street and two were sent to 3701 Conshohocken Avenue, Apt 517.
Of these ten parcels, two were seized. The two seized parcels were shipped from
California to 3701 Conshohocken Avenue, Apt 517 (first package) and to 2753
N. 5th Street, Philadelphia. 2753 N. 5th Street is the location of Juliana’s Nailery,
a nail salon owned by Baker. The details of these seizures are described below.
On March 25, 2021, USPS Priority Mail parcel
#9505514508111082527872, addressed to “Ciara Thomas 2753 N. 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19133,” from “Shante Thomas 12559 Brookshire Ave 103
Downey, CA 90242” was identified and intercepted by Postal Inspectors.
Investigation of the parcel, through the United States Postal Service as well
as law enforcement database CLEAR, showed the name “Shante Thomas” does
not associate to the return address. Further, a search of United States Postal
Service databases and CLEAR showed the name “Ciara Thomas” does not
associate to the recipient address. The parcel was mailed from the Downey, CA
Post Office on March 23, 2021.
On March 26, 2021, the parcel was exposed to drug detection canine
“Mizu,” handled by Special Agent Robert Weber with the Pennsylvania Office of
the Attorney General. SA Weber advised Postal Inspectors that Mizu alerted
positive to the presence of illegal narcotics inside the parcel. The parcel was
found to contain approximately three pounds of methamphetamine. The
methamphetamine seized from this parcel was turned over to the Montgomery
County Detective Bureau.
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Postal Inspector Alvarez retrieved video surveillance of the acceptance of
the parcel at the Downey, California, Post Office on March 23, 2021. Photographs
from the surveillance video show a Hispanic Male presenting and paying for the
parcel.
On March 29, 2021, USPS Priority Mail parcel
9505515054521082275535, addressed to “Lisa Watson 3701 Conshohocken
Ave Apt 512 Philadelphia, PA 19131,” from “Sheana Watson 12559 Brookshire
Ave 103 Downey, CA 90242” was identified and intercepted by USPIS personnel.
The parcel was intercepted due to the criminal indicators present related to this
investigation.
Investigation of the parcel, through the United States Postal Service as well
as law enforcement database CLEAR, showed the name “Sheana Watson” does
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not associate to the return address. Further, a search of United States Postal
Service databases and CLEAR showed the name “Lisa Watson” does not
associate to the recipient address. The parcel was mailed from the South Gate,
CA Post Office on March 23, 2021, and the postage was paid for using cash.
On March 31, 2021, the parcel was exposed to drug detection canine
named “Mizu,” handled by Special Agent Robert Weber with the Pennsylvania
Office of the Attorney General. SA Weber advised Postal Inspectors that Mizu
alerted positive to the presence of illegal narcotics inside the parcel. The parcel
was found to contain approximately three pounds of methamphetamine. The
methamphetamine seized from this parcel was turned over to the Montgomery
County Detective Bureau.
Photographs from the surveillance video of the shipping location show a
Hispanic or African American female presenting and paying for the parcel.
APRIL 1, 2021
In April 2021, Postal Inspectors conducted analysis of parcels mailed from
California to Philadelphia, PA. Through their analysis, they were able to identify
a USPS Priority Mail parcel 9505506689711091284842, addressed to 3701
Conshohocken Ave. Apt. 410 Philadelphia, PA 19131. Previous parcels mailed
from the Los Angeles, CA area to 3701 Conshohocken Ave., Apt. 410 contained
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methamphetamine. The parcel was mailed from Bellflower, CA and addressed to
“Patrick Melisen 3701 Conshohocken Ave Apt 410 Philadelphia, PA 19131.” The
listed return address was “Charles Melisen 19127 Pioneer Blvd Artesia 90701.”
The return address has been listed on previously identified parcels suspected of
containing methamphetamine, which were mailed to addresses associated with
this investigation.
On April 20, 2021, the parcel was exposed to drug detection canine named
“Mizu,” handled by Special Agent Robert Weber with the Pennsylvania Office of
the Attorney General. SA Weber advised Postal Inspectors that Mizu alerted
positive to the presence of illegal narcotics inside the parcel. The parcel was
found to contain approximately two pounds of methamphetamine. The
methamphetamine seized from this parcel was turned over to the Montgomery
County Detective Bureau.
Postal Inspectors retrieved video surveillance images from the transaction
for the acceptance of the parcel on April 1, 2021, at the Bellflower, CA Post Office.
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The surveillance images showed a white male paying for and mailing the parcel.
The individual in the images appears to be the same person who mailed six
related parcels suspected of containing methamphetamine from the Bellflower
Post Office in March 2021.
Following the seizure of USPS Priority Mail Parcel
#9505506689711091284842 in April 2021, Postal Inspector Matt Tier noticed a
decline in packages sent from California to Philadelphia area addresses
associated with this investigation. Due to the lack of parcels mailed through
USPS, Postal Inspector Tier contacted security personnel at FedEx, UPS, and
DHL to check the target addresses for parcels mailed from the Los Angeles, CA.
FedEx and DHL reported that they did not identify any recent parcels into any
of the target addresses, however, UPS identified six parcels, all associated with
Tyrone Baker, mailed between April 13, 2021, and June 5, 2021, as follows:
4/13/21 “Tyrone Baker 157 N Edgewood St. Philadelphia, PA 19139”
Mailed from UPS Store at 13536 Lakewood Blvd., Bellflower,
CA 90706
4/22/21 “Kamena Payton 51 Melrose Ave Philadelphia, PA 19050”
Mailed from UPS Store at 514 W. 9th St., Ste. 110, Los
Angeles, CA 90015
5/5/21 “Tyrone Baker 157 N Edgewood St. Philadelphia, PA 19139”
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Mailed from UPS Store at 1360 S. Figueroa Street, Suite D,
Los Angeles, CA
5/22/21 “Kamena Payton 51 Melrose Ave Philadelphia, PA 19050”
Mailed from UPS Store at 1360 S. Figueroa Street, Suite D,
Los Angeles, CA
5/24/21 “Kamena Payton 51 Melrose Ave Philadelphia, PA 19050”
Mailed from UPS Store at 6500 Washington Blvd. Montebella,
CA
6/5/21 “Tyrone Baker 157 N Edgewood St. Philadelphia, PA 19139”
Mailed from UPS Store at 4858 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
The parcels had similar characteristics to the USPS parcels identified in
this investigation, and Inspectors believed the drug trafficking organization
switched from USPS to UPS to send methamphetamine because of the seizures
that were detailed above. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience
with drug investigations, and specifically their knowledge of the tendencies and
patterns of this drug trafficking organization, your affiants believe that each of
these UPS shipments made from Los Angeles, CA to addresses in Philadelphia
associated with Tyrone Baker were all shipments of methamphetamine.
AUGUST 19, 2021
On August 19, 2021, USPIS personnel identified Priority Mail parcel
9505516191241230552895 shipped to 2651 N. 8th St. Philadelphia, PA 19133
from Downey, CA on August 18, 2021. The return address listed was “Richard &
Denise Brodie, 12054 Downey Ave, Downey, CA 90242” and the delivery address
listed was “Cynthia Brodie, 2651 N. 8th St., Philadelphia, PA 19133.”
Investigation of the parcel, through the United States Postal Service as well
as law enforcement database CLEAR, showed the names “Richard and Denise
Brodie” do not associate to the return address. Further, a search of United States
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Postal Service databases and CLEAR showed the name “Cynthia Brodie” is not
associated to the recipient address. 2651 N. 8th St., Philadelphia, PA is known
from this investigation to be associated with Jhamir Winans.
On August 31, 2021, the parcel was exposed to drug detection canine
“Murphy” handled by Officer Stephen Plum with the Warrington Township Police
Department. Murphy alerted positive to the presence of illegal narcotics inside
the parcel. The parcel contained approximately five and one quarter pounds of
methamphetamine. This seized methamphetamine was turned over to the
Montgomery County Detective Bureau.
PARALLEL INVESTIGATION BY UPS/HSI On December 28, 2021, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in
Louisville, Kentucky seized five (5) packages sent via United Parcel Service (UPS)
containing approximately forty (40) pounds of methamphetamine. The packages
were seized after a K9 sniff had alerted on one of the packages which led to the
identification of the additional four. The return address listed on all five packages
was “Christian Green, 10902 Sampson Ave Lynwood, CA 90262.” A review of the
addresses where the packages were being sent and the return address showed
that they were associated with Joshua Quiles, Tyrone Baker and Ricky Evans.
The delivery addresses of the seized packages were:
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Brian Colon, 588 Sanger Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120
Julians Nalery, Apt. 1 2753 N. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133
George Massaqui, 522 Primos Avenue, Folcroft, PA 19032 (two
packages)
Kamena Payton, 51 Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne, PA 19050
Your affiants know all these addresses are relevant to this investigation for
the following reasons:
586 East Sanger Street is associated with both Joshua Quiles and
Natalie Riveria in the law enforcement database TLOxp. Natalie Riveria
is known to be associated with Quiles as she picked up Quiles from the
Lower Merion Police Department when he was arrested for Driving
Under the Influence in April 2021. Your affiants have learned
throughout this investigation that the targets of the investigation will
use addresses next to or nearby locations that they are associated with
and then retrieve the packages from those locations when they arrive.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations your affiants know that this is a tactic used by drug
dealers because it distances them from the drugs if they are seized by
law enforcement. Other similar tactics include using fictitious names
and fictitious return addresses.
2753 N. 5th Street is the location of Juliana’s Nailery, a nail salon
owned by Tyrone Baker.
I. 522 Primos Avenue is associated through TLOxp with Teewon Weah
(215-934-8271) and Genesis Sonni (484-540-4283), individuals who
are both subscribed to phones that have communicated with Tyrone
Baker according to historical call detail records and the active pen
register on Tyrone Baker’s phone (215-980-1764).
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II. 57 Melrose Avenue is an address associated with Tyrone Baker and
his mother. Surveillance has seen Baker at this location on multiple
occasions during this investigation. Further, on March 18, 2021,
United States Postal Inspector Matt Tier conducted surveillance during
a package delivery at 51 Melrose Avenue. The package was addressed
to Kamena Payton and had a Los Angeles County return address, as
did the package containing multiple pounds of methamphetamine
seized by HSI on December 28, 2021. On March 18, 2021, Postal
Investigator Tier observed the US Postal Mail Carrier deliver the
package to 51 Melrose Avenue and then watched Baker arrive at the
location and retrieve it. It should be noted that 51 Melrose Avenue is
located less than 100 feet from 57 Melrose Avenue.
A check of the law enforcement database TLOxp for the return address,
10902 Sampson Avenue, Lynwood, CA, 90262 uncovered that the address is
associated with Tierra Moultrie, who also shows an address of 12562 Brookshire
Avenue, Apartment 2, Downey, California. The Brookshire Avenue address was
found to be associated with Ricky Evans, the organization’s suspected California
source of methamphetamine. It should also be noted that your affiants were
unable to locate a “Christian Green” associated with address 10902 Sampson
Avenue. This furthers your affiants’ belief that the sender of the package was
trying to discretely send the methamphetamine through UPS.
Following K9 alerts on the additional packages, the packages were opened.
Methamphetamine was seized from each package, weighing approximately 40.4
pounds in total. The packages, which were sent on December 27, 2021, via UPS
Next Day Air, were due to arrive at their shipped destination on December 28,
2021, or December 29, 2021. USPIS Agent Tier discovered that Baker had
traveled to Los Angeles, California on December 27, 2021, leaving on a direct
flight from Philadelphia International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport
at 6:50AM. Baker left Los Angeles on December 28, 2021, at 1:30AM, having
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spent less than 18 hours in the Los Angeles area. On January 1, 2022, following
the seizure of the packages, Baker and the phone number associated with Ricky
Evans communicated for nearly 18 minutes. This call was significantly longer
than typical communication between Baker and Evans which leads your affiants
to believe that it was a discussion related to the seized packages.
Your affiants also believe that the purpose of Baker’s trip to the Los
Angeles area on December 27, 2021, was related to the acquisition of the
methamphetamine contained in the packages seized by HSI in Louisville,
Kentucky on December 28, 2021. On Thursday, January 6, 2022, the seized
methamphetamine was turned over to the Montgomery County Detective
Bureau.
SUMMARY OF USPIS AND HSI SEIZURES
Through these corresponding investigations by the United State Postal
Inspector Service (USPIS) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) ninety-one
(91) packages were identified which matched the pattern and contained
indicators of criminal activity of this Philadelphia-area drug trafficking group.
These parcels were shipped from an address in the Los Angeles, California area
to the Philadelphia area. In all cases, the parcels were associated with a prior
seizure of methamphetamine or listed a mailing or return address associated
with a member of this drug trafficking organization.
Of those ninety-one (91) packages (historical packages from October 2019
through December 2021), fifteen (15) packages were seized, all of which
contained methamphetamine. The seized methamphetamine from twelve (12) of
those fifteen parcels was turned over to the Montgomery County Detective
Bureau. Of the ninety-one (91) packages which contained indicators of criminal
activity and matched the known patterns of this drug trafficking organization,
your affiants were able to develop direct evidence that thirty-one (31) parcels
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were shipped to the targets of this investigation. Your affiants, based on their
training, knowledge, and experience with drug investigations, opine that these
parcels contained controlled substances which were possessed with the intent
to deliver and for the purpose of furthering the illegitimate business interests of
this drug trafficking organization.
COURT ORDERED WIRE
INTERCEPTS
The Honorable Megan McCarthy King, Judge of the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania, issued Court Orders authorizing the interception of oral,
electronic, and wire communications for cellular phones used by Tyrone Baker,
Jhamir Winans, Richard Quarles Jr., Ricky Evans, and Shakeem Johnson, and
the Instagram account of Jhamir Winans. The dates these orders were issued
and the corresponding docket numbers and phone numbers or Instagram
account are listed below:
Docket 38-1 E.D. 2022 (Baker) – T-Mobile/Tracfone cellular telephone
bearing number 215-980-1764 used by Tyrone Baker. Issued January 27,
2022. 30-day extension issued on February 25, 2022.
Docket 38-2 E.D. 2022 (Winans) – Verizon cellular telephone bearing
number 267-804-6023 used by Jhamir Winans. Issued January 27, 2022.
30-day extension issued on February 25, 2022.
Docket 38-3 E.D. 2022 (Winans’ Instagram) – Instagram account with
username “Mirr.21” having a target identification number of 321916352
used by Jhamir Winans. Issued January 27, 2022. It should be noted that
on January 28, 2022, Winans deleted/deactivated his Instagram account
with username “Mirr.21” and no interceptions were completed. Winans’
Instagram account was later re-activated, but no interceptions were made.
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Docket 38-4 E.D. 2022 (Quarles Jr.) – Sprint cellular telephone bearing
number 215-787-8632 used by Richard Quarles Jr. Issued February 1,
2022. On February 10, 2022, interceptions on phone number 215-787-
8632 were ceased.
Docket 38-5 E.D. 2022 (Evans) – T-Mobile/MetroPCS cellular telephone
bearing number 424-744-2079 used by Ricky Evans. Issued February 11,
2022. On February 25, 2022, interceptions on phone number 424-744-
2079 ceased as Evans began using a “new” phone number (reference 38-
9 E.D. 2022 below).
Docket 38-6 E.D. 2022 (Baker) – T-Mobile cellular telephone bearing
number 267-670-4429 used by Tyrone Baker. Issued February 11, 2022,
and scheduled to terminate on March 12, 2022.
Docket 38-7 E.D. 2022 (Winans) – AT&T cellular telephone bearing
number 215-275-6435 used by Jhamir Winans. Issued February 16,
2022.
Docket 38-8 E.D. 2022 (Johnson) – T-Mobile cellular telephone bearing
number 267-934-7913 used by Shakeem Johnson. Issued February 25,
2022.
Docket 38-9 E.D. 2022 (Evans) – T-Mobile/MetroPCS cellular telephone
bearing number 424-223-3050 used by Ricky Evans. Issued February 25,
2022.
The following sections of this affidavit include conversations in relation to
court authorized wire interceptions of Tyrone Baker’s, Jhamir Winans’, Richard
Quarles Jr.’s, Ricky Evans’, and Shakeem Johnson’s cellular telephone facilities.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, investigators involved in this
investigation have expertise regarding the methods utilized by drug traffickers
as well as the language utilized by drug traffickers when discussing illegal drug
trafficking networks. This experience is relied upon to determine the pertinent
content of conversations relevant to this illegal drug trafficking investigation.
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Detective Rook and Detective Laverty reviewed the intercepted conversations
thus far in reference to this investigation. In many instances, Detectives Rook
and Laverty were present while the state certified monitors intercepted these
conversations.
Detective Rook and Detective Laverty were briefed by investigators
conducting surveillance and reviewed the surveillance reports they prepared that
corroborate the fact that there exists an ongoing criminal conspiracy and drug
trafficking operation involving Tyrone Baker, Jhamir Winans, Richard Quarles
Jr., Ricky Evans, Shakeem Johnson, and others currently known and unknown.
The following intercepted conversations and surveillance demonstrate the
role of Tyrone Baker, Jhamir Winans, Richard Quarles Jr., Ricky Evans,
Shakeem Johnson and others known and yet unknown in the distribution of
controlled substances. Intercepted communications that resulted in a delivery of
methamphetamine, or other significant events, have been arranged together as
incidents that include the observations of physical and fixed surveillance and
your affiants’ interpretation of the events.
Common abbreviations used during the voice call transcriptions:
I/A Inaudible / unintelligible
S/L Sounds like
U/F Unknown female
U/M Unknown male
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STATUS OF DRUG SUPPLY On January 27, 2022, the start of the court authorized wiretap your
affiants believe, based on intercepted conversations and surveillance that the
drug trafficking organization had little to no supply of methamphetamine for
sale. This is believed, in part, to be caused by the five-parcel seizure of
approximately forty (40) pounds of methamphetamine by Homeland Security
Investigations on December 28, 2021, which was destined for members of this
group. At the start of the court authorized wiretap on January 27, 2022, your
affiants believe that Tyrone Baker was in the process of arranging for a shipment
of methamphetamine from Evans in Los Angeles, CA to Baker in Pennsylvania.
CALLS #68, 70, 73, 77, 81, 84, 87, 93, AND 96 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022
ON JANUARY 28, 2022, FROM 3:23PM TO 3:34PM, OUTGOING PHONE
CALLS AND INCOMING/OUTGOING TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN PHONE
NUMBERS 213-513-9010, 424-646-1314, 323-237-2892, AND 215-980-
1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (3:23PM): [Outgoing call (#68) to 213-513-9010 – no
answer]
Baker (3:24PM): [Outgoing call (#70) to 424-646-1314 – no
answer]
Baker (3:24PM): [Outgoing call (#73) to 323-237-28922 – no
answer]
Baker (3:25PM): “Yo bro you good” – [Outgoing text (#77) to
213-513-9010]
Baker (3:27PM): [Outgoing call (#81) to 323-237-2892 – no
answer]
2 A check of phone number 323-237-2892 showed that it was subscribed to Tierra Moultrie, 12562 Brookshire Avenue, Apartment 2, Downey, CA 90242. This is the same address associated with Ricky Evans. It is therefore your affiants’ opinion that Moultrie is an associate, possibly a girlfriend, of Evans.
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Baker (3:27PM): [Outgoing call (#84) to 323-237-2892 – no
answer]
Baker (3:27PM): [Outgoing call (#87) to 213-513-9010 – no
answer]
213-513-9010 (#93) (3:34PM): “Yea bro had to pay phone bill every thing
touch down”
213-513-9010 (#96) (3:34PM): “We good”
In the above phone call log and subsequent text message exchange
between Baker and the person, later identified as Ricky Evans, the California
source of methamphetamine supply, your affiants believe that Baker was trying
to contact his methamphetamine source, Ricky Evans, who is from the Los
Angeles, California area. Baker made multiple unanswered phone calls to three
different phone numbers all with area codes from the Los Angeles area and then
texted, “Yo bro you good.” After trying unsuccessfully to speak to the person,
Baker received a text message response that apologized for not answering as the
user of the phone had to “pay [the] phone bill.” Your affiants are aware in the
case of pre-paid cellular telephones, such as Tracfone, that users “pre-pay” for
the ability to use the phone. Oftentimes this is accomplished by adding “minutes”
to the phone or paying a monthly service fee. If “minutes” are not added or the
fee is not paid, the phone becomes inactive until a payment is made. Your
affiants believe that the “pay [the] phone bill” is referring to adding minutes or
paying the monthly fee to allow the phone to be used again.
The text message continued with “everything touch down.” Based on your
affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with the facts of this
investigation, specifically that Baker used shipping companies (USPS, UPS) to
send and receive U.S. Currency and methamphetamine in the past, it is their
opinion that the above call log and text message exchange showed that phone
numbers 213-513-9010, 424-646-1314, and 323-237-2892 were all used by
Ricky Evans. Further your affiants opine that the person using phone number
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213-513-9010 received something (“touched down”), possibly a delivery of drugs
or US Currency.
Through the continued monitoring of Baker’s calls, your affiants
ascertained more information about the pending shipment of drugs by Ricky
Evans to Tyrone Baker.
CALL #460 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 30, 2022, AT 7:12PM,
OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-929-7202, USED BY ZACHARY SMITH,
FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
The call begins with non-pertinent general discussion between Baker and
Smith about their current plans. 0:49 into the call, the discussion shifts to the
topic of drug dealing. Specifically, about “Chase Benjii,” who your affiants know
to be the nickname for Joshua Quiles.
Smith: “What’s up though?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much but I had to see what’s going on and shit man.”
Smith: “You ain’t never, you ain’t never heard from the nigger Chase.”
Baker: “From Chase?”
Smith: “Come on Benji.”
Baker: “Who?”
Smith: “Benji your man.”
Baker: “You said Mitch?”
Smith: “Mm hmm I said your man Benji.”
Baker: “Oh Benji, oh, oh yeah I talked to him earlier. He don’t got no thing,
he don’t got none of that shit. He waiting, he waiting them jawns, he
waiting for the jawn, our jawns to come in on um uh I think
Tuesday.”
Smith: “Okay.”
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Baker: “Yeah but I just ran into my man out of Cali bro. He uh he got a
good situation for me and I don’t think and I know, I know he not
bull shitting me I’m just trying to see, I hope he don’t try say I/A.”
Smith: “Can you cut me in?”
Baker: “He’s talking about low numbers, I’m talking about on the
hundreds.”
Smith: “Can you cut me in though that’s the question?”
Baker: “Yeah, the only thing is I don’t know if it’s going to be for your lane
though.”
Smith: “He talking about ice nigger I’ll jump in the ice game.”
Baker: “Yeah I’m talking about, I’m talking about for the weed and the ice
bro you know, you know that weed shit everybody running around
there planting shit bro.”
Smith: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Bro like even the good plant he, he got out there for like two
hundred dollars bro, three hundred dollars.”
Smith: “What’s up? I got a couple grand... yeah I do.”
Baker: “Yeah, but I’m trying to see what’s up? Yeah I am just waiting to
see... I’m just trying to see who’s gonna fly out there with me.”
Smith: “I’ll go with you nigga.”
Baker: “(Laughing) real shit I’m trying to see who’s gonna go out there with
me and I’m trying to see, I’m trying to see when he’s gonna give me
the go to come out there. I already went out there with him um went
out there a couple years ago I was staying at his crib for like damn
near like a week, week and half and shit I was living with him. Me
and my cousin just staying out there chilling. So I’m trying to see
like when he is just going to give me the go to come out cause he
just hit me back up like last week.”
Smith: “I’m trying to go. What’s up?”
Baker: “Alright, as soon as I get... as soon as I get the official go I need a
real go like I mean like alright, come out you know, soon as I get the
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go cause, I’m gonna go out there and grab some. So as soon as he
gives me the go to come out there and I/A and all I’m, I’m out there.
Yeah definitely out there though.”
Smith: “I’m with my I/A.”
Baker: “Alright, and you ain’t never heard from your other your folks and
shit.”
Smith: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smith: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright what’s up, what they talking about?”
Smith: “There not ready with the ice they’re ready with, they’re ready
with the tree now.”
Baker: “Yeah I already know that. I bet they’re not even talking they talking
like, what number about? They talking like I/A they even say any
numbers.”
Smith: “No he said, he said, he said for that I/A chop chop I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “That’s their number, correct?”
Baker: “I’m trying to see.”
Smith: “Oh shit.”
Baker: “I don’t know what I’m gonna do right now. I’m about to... I should
come down there for real.”
Smith: “Yo let me finish watching the game, I’ll call ya brodie.”
Baker: “Alright call me.”
Smith: “Alright.”
During the above referenced voice call between Baker and a phone number
used by Zachary Smith, Baker and Smith discussed Baker’s “man” who Smith
also referred to as “Chase” and “Benjii.” Baker stated that “Benji” “don’t got
nothin,” which your affiants believe is a reference to “Benji” being out of product.
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Baker stated that Benjii is waiting for “them jawns to come in,” believed by your
affiants to be a reference to a shipment of drugs and further states that he thinks
the shipment is supposed to come in on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
Baker and Smith talked further about “ice,” a common slang term for
methamphetamine, and Baker making a visit to California. Your affiants found
these references to “Chase” and “Benjii” to be relevant, as during the post-arrest
interview of Chase Smith in March of 2021, Chase Smith identified “Chase
Benjii” as the individual to be above Baker in the hierarchy of the drug trafficking
organization of which Baker is a member. Your affiants know that “Chase Benjii”
is the nickname of Joshua Quiles, who uses the Instagram handle “chase_benjii.”
It is your affiants’ opinion, that this voice call with Zachary Smith corroborates
Chase Smith’s statement that Baker and Quiles are associated through this drug
trafficking organization.
Smith asked Baker if his source of supply can “cut him in,” an apparent
reference to Smith wanting to purchase drugs from Baker’s California source of
supply. Baker told Smith that he is unsure whether the California supplier sells
drugs that are in Smith’s “lane.” Baker elaborated and stated that his California
source of supply deals in “ice” and “weed,” which your affiants know to be
methamphetamine and marijuana. Smith responded by saying he will “jump in
the ice lane,” which your affiants opine is Smith telling Baker he wants to acquire
methamphetamine that he can sell in the same method as Baker.
CALL #756 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT 9:25AM,
OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 213-513-9010, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
As Baker and Quiles continued to deal with a lack of methamphetamine
inventory, Baker, and a male believed to be Quiles, spoke with Ricky Evans, their
California source of methamphetamine.
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CALL #756
U/M (believed to be Quiles): “Yo, what the fuck bro?”
Evans: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “Yo Rico, what’s up with you and shit, yea Chase tried calling you,
that shit about cause the fucking jawn say label created it never say
out for delivery.”
U/M: “I’ll send him a picture, tell him I’ll send him a picture.”
Baker: “Oh picture.”
Evans: “I just checked just a minute ago.”
Baker: “Oh, alright now now it say ah it say delivery date will be updated
processing.”
U/M: “Same thing it did last time bro.”
Evans: “It say processing.”
Baker: “No, it say delivery date will be updated as soon as possible the same
shit it was saying the other time before.”
Evans: “The shit ain’t never updated at all.”
Baker: “You say what?”
Evans: “I said but it never updated at all.”
Baker: “I/A That shit wasn’t even created like I/A.”
U/M: “Don’t say on the way nowhere, nothing, like it ain’t, why the fuck
here, he dropped it off like at what 3 o’clock, 3:30.”
Evans: “I/A They cut time is 4:30 so it was I/A right before cut off time.”
Baker: “Oh.”
Evans: “Obvious we fucked up so the deadline for the ah next day ah it came
back, it came back the next day can send out certain time you
know?”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “No he’s thinking maybe cutoff time.”
U/M: “I know he didn’t cause he sent me the, he sent me the picture of
the...”
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Evans: “Receipt, yea the receipt.”
U/M: “The receipt has 6:30 which is 3:30 over there, so like I don’t get why
it’s doing it bro.”
Evans: “Nah I don’t neither that’s I was like ya know I checked it just a
minute ago cause right before I went to sleep hold on a minute I/A”
I don’t even know why.”
Baker: “You checked it yesterday?”
Evans: “You said what?”
Baker: “I said you checked it yesterday?”
Evans: “No I just checked it like couple hours ago probably before y’all called
me.”
Baker: “Um...”
Evans: “I was hoping, I was hoping it would updated to I/A right now.”
U/M: “Ahhh, This shit crazy.”
Evans: “Um, I’m about to go up there in a minute cause, see what’s up
though, this just stupid as fuck cause name next day suppose to be
next day cuz, all that label created shit suppose to been updated for,
processing and all type shit suppose to been all that going in one
night.”
Baker: “Yea, label created is like it never, it’s never it’s not sent off yet.”
Evans: “Yea, that’s what I’m saying.”
Baker: “Damn man, what the fuck...shit bro.”
Evans: “I got go up there see what’s up bro, you hear me?”
Baker: “Yea.”
Evans: “Going have to cause I/A know what’s going on to with that jawn
ah...”
Baker: “You said the shirt I/A.”
Evans: “I got, I got the receipt.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Evans: “I’m about go see S/L Dave, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna call, probably
go up there to I/A apartment.”
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Baker: “Just talk to them when you go up there and shit and ya know
start.”
Evans: “They can really tell so they can really tell me what the fuck is going
on instead of you know?”
Baker: “Yea I/A.”
Evans: “I/A some some stupid shit.”
Baker: “And they talk about this label created like what the fuck?”
Evans: “Label created, just scrape the label on send my shit up. Ah once
hey once I get up I’m about to um hustle up there bro.”
Baker: “Just call.”
Evans: “Uh huh I got you.”
Baker: “Alright brodie.”
Evans: “Alright bro.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the specific facts and circumstances of this investigation thus
far, your affiants opine that the content of the above call is related to the status
of a methamphetamine shipment made by Evans intended to be received by
Baker and the male believed to be Quiles.
At one point during the call, Baker told Evans “Oh, alright now now it say
ah it say delivery date will be updated processing,” and the male believed to be
Quiles responded, “Same thing it did last time bro.” It is your affiants’ opinion
that when the male believed to be Quiles said “last time,” he was referring to the
five packages seized by HSI on December 28, 2021, that contained approximately
forty (40) pounds of methamphetamine. As the call continued, the three
discussed why their current methamphetamine shipment was seemingly
delayed. Evans told Baker and the male believed to be Quiles that he planned on
going to the store he shipped the package from to check on its status. The results
of that visit were captured in a subsequent call discussed below.
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CALL #806 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT 9:25AM,
INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 213-513-9010, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello.”
Evans: “Hey brodie.”
Baker: “That shit over.”
Evans: “No, fuck no! Um, the nigger just told me that that they, they dropped.
Well they blaming it on they self because they said the driver fucked up
and didn’t scan our shit uh yesterday cause I said. They sayin the shit
is all on them, but he’s like uh just keep checking it by the end of the
day I/A to see what happened. I should uh check it by the end uh. Well
it should be there tomorrow in the morning, but he said to check it by
the end of the day to make sure the update or not because it’s supposed
to have a scan that it processed somewhere, but it never got processed
and he said it was the UPS driver not the UPS Store though. So he
blaming it on the driver, but he like ain’t nothing wrong. It all seems
alright. It hasn’t been moved or. He said but it left here yesterday, but I
guess I guess the UPS dude came thirty minutes late and from his thirty
minutes late. That shit was supposed to all have been on the uh, on the
plane that night coming that way. Because he said, he said once that
dude was thirty minutes late, that shit start a backup everything from
yesterday.”
Baker: “So what are you saying is it there or what I/A?”
Evans: “No, he said it left. He said it left. He said it left with everything
yesterday. He said it just didn’t get scanned. That’s why it said label
created.”
Baker: “Cause you do, you track it right?”
Evans: “Yeah, I just tracked it.”
Baker: “Alright.”
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Evans: “No, I tracked it last night. I wanted to know sent the shit. But they just
went up there and they figured it out. He was just like nah, everything
got scanned. Everything got scanned late, thirty minutes late. He was
just like I don’t even think dude made it to the uh shit to go drop off the
packages yesterday. He said, um they have to call the corporation and
all type of shit like that just to figure it out. He said ain’t nothing wrong
with the I/A uh, he just said it supposed to be there tomorrow because
I guess it didn’t make it there yesterday.”
Baker: “Alright, so it didn’t make it but it’s cool.”
Evans: “Yeah, it didn’t make it on the joint, so he said to give it til tomorrow
morning we’ll see uh if it update transit. It not, come back up there
tomorrow.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Evans: “Cause tomorrow, that’s the, that’s the last day. I ain’t gonna play, um.
I then I would rather just have to get turned around. I/A. Like last time
we waited too long?”
Baker: “Yeah, real shit.”
Evans: “I/A, I’m not waiting. I’m not gone wait that long. I’m just gonna have it
have it re, resent back tomorrow if it don’t make it tomorrow. I think we
waited too long. The opportunity that we had when they told us to do it,
we should have did it that day.”
Baker: “Yeah, we ain’t waiting on it this time.”
Evans: “Yeah, so now we ain’t waiting on this one. So I that’s why I was like
nigga if anything, we just get it turned back around so we can make
sure we see that label coming back. We ain’t, we ain’t making no missing
file claim, none of that type of stupid ass shit. I’m just telling dude, I
said I don’t want to do none of that!”
Baker: “I/A”
Evans: “Yeah, he talking about need to file missing claim. I said fuck no! That
happened last time. That dumb ass shit got right uh, fuckin crack uh.”
Baker: “Yeah I/A.”
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Evans: “Just send my shit back.”
Baker: “I can’t believe this shit! You hear me?”
Evans: “You said what what bro?”
Baker: “Uh, yeah I can take this shit bro.”
Evans: “We all can’t brother, I/A. I’m not going to wait cuz, I’m going to turn
that bitch right back around, uh huh.”
Baker: “I/A bro. That shit stupid I/A.”
Evans: “I/A”
Baker: “I’m going to need it. I’m not even making no extra paper because that
last situation that went. When it got lost, my folks they basically like,
even if it went somewhere else, they’re nothing that you can’t do that.
None of that shit gonna work for me bro I/A.”
Evans: “You know how that shit go, man. No, I don’t think. They don’t think.
Like I said bro, and the worst thing the worst thing we turn that bitch
right back around tomorrow so. We be seein an update by the end of.
By the morning. That shit gotta get sent back, uh returned back.”
Baker: “Yeah, oh well. Did you ever talk to Chase?”
Evans: “No, I/A. That’s all. I will call you.”
Baker: “I/A with each other. He, I called I/A on the phone. Off my other phone.
That’s why I/A, I’m about to do that now and shit to see if he picks up.
My bad I/A.”
(Ringer in the background. Possibly FaceTime Ringer)
Evans: “I/A”
Baker: “I/A”
Evans: “I/A”
Baker: “I’m trying to find my Access Card I/A. I/A ain’t picking up bro. Try to
call him and just tell him and shit.”
Evans: “He got that bullshit ass phone. It’s a Text Free app.”
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Baker: “Who, Chase?”
Evans: “Yeah, can’t even call cause the phone was off anyway.”
Baker: “Uh huh.”
Evans: “The other phone off. He be texting off that bullshit ass Text Free and
callin from that shit.”
Baker: (Talking in the background) “Alright, well we, we’re gonna see what’s up.
Keep me posted and shit.”
Evans: “I got you brodie. I got you.”
Baker: “Alright bro.”
Evans: “Alright bro.”
Baker: (I/A talking in the background)
During the above voice calls, Baker and Ricky Evans aka “Rico” discussed
a package being delayed. Baker stated that “Chase” called, which is believed to
refer to Joshua Quiles aka “Chase Benjii.” Baker is upset that the package was
delayed. Ricky Evans replied that he checked on the package at the UPS Store
and was told that it was UPS’s fault and that the package would be delivered
tomorrow morning. It is your affiants’ opinion that these calls reference a
package, believed to contain illegal drugs, being shipped from California to the
Philadelphia area by Ricky Evans to Tyrone Baker and Joshua Quiles. Further,
in the call Baker and Evans discuss the loss of a previous shipment and their
regret of not having the shipment sent back to them last time when they had the
chance. It is your affiant’s opinion that Baker and Evans are referring to the five-
parcel shipment seized by HSI in December 2021 when Baker and Evans discuss
their previous loss.
Several days later, the missing methamphetamine shipment continued to
be a topic of conversation between Baker and Evans. The two discussed whether
the package was actually lost or just delayed by UPS.
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CALL #1190 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 3, 2022, AT
7:41PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 213-513-9010, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “Hello?”
Evans: “Yeah bro I keep calling one of y’all I want try to hear the same shit
I was hearing so I was right there, on the umm, right there in front
of these niggas.”
Baker: “What they say?”
Evans: “So, basically, they next day right now is backed up from three days
ago, right. The same day that I sent out, which I was telling, uh, bro
they want to send out umm until like you know Monday or Tuesday.
But Monday they said that that shit was still backed up cuz. So they
still got all they package, they showing me they got all they packages
from three days ago except mine. Which they trying to see if, tha-
tha- if that package got on the truck cause it was supposed to get
on the truck still that same day, you feel me?”
Baker: “Mmm.”
Evans: “So they telling me tha-tha-that the manager not coming right now
to show me the camera, so he don’t want to show me the camera to,
cu, uh, he say he gonna check it on his own time to call me.”
Baker: “Yeah. I know.”
Evans: “Which is cool, whatever, whatever, but at the, at the end of the day
cuz they make it jus... they just told me that they was backed up
and it’s still probably at the hub. And they got eight days to find
your shit. If they don’t find your shit they want to declare a value in
order to see what its worth. But my thang is y’all not going to be able
to declare no value if y’all find it right, y’all don’t find it. Even if y’all
find it y’all gonna try to declare a value and say y’all lost it?”
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Baker: “Yeah they trippin.”
Evans: “Yeah I’m like y’all on some nutty shit cuz. Now I’m like let me just
see the camera to see what truck it got on so once y’all could contact
that truck y’all can see what happened with it.”
Baker: “God damn.”
Evans: “Cause I’m like I don’t know how that bitch just scanned and y’all
made me pay three hundred and fifty dollars for next day and then
that motha fucka’ don’t get there next day. Y’all should have told me
that, that day.”
Baker: “Mmm.”
Evans: “Chase not answering his phone so I wasn’t able to call cuz I- and
let cuz hear what I heard.”
Baker: “I/A”
Evans: “You wa- You wasn’t answering your phone either so I wanted y’all
to hear before I walked out I/A I just walked out.”
Baker: “Alright. Alright and shit. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck, alright let me...”
Evans: “This shit is fucked bro. This shit is fucked, fucked, fucked man.”
Baker: “I/A”
Evans: “And then gotta start doing FedEx and shit, I/A shit.”
Baker: “Yeah we gonna have to I/A let me, let me see what’s up I’m about
to handle this real quick let me call you right back.”
Evans: “Alright. Alright I got you brother.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the results of this investigation thus far, your affiants opine
that the content of this phone call between Tyrone Baker and the California
source of methamphetamine, Ricky Evans, is related to the shipment of
methamphetamine currently in transit. Evans and Baker were discussing the
status of the package, which they believed had been delayed by their shipper,
UPS. Further, the two discuss “Chase,” believed to be Joshua Quiles, who your
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affiants believe, along with Baker, was an intended recipient of the
methamphetamine which the missing package contains.
SUMMARY OF CALLS REGARDING METHAMPHETAMINE INVENTORY
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with
the facts of this investigation and the above referenced intercepted calls related
to Docket 38-1 E.D. 2022, your affiants opine that Baker and the male believed
to be Quiles were in the process of resupplying their methamphetamine on
January 27, 2022. A package, suspected to contain methamphetamine, was
mailed via UPS from Evans in California to the Philadelphia area intended for
Baker and the male believed to be Quiles. However, the status of that package is
currently unknown.
As detailed below, this led Baker to travel to Oakland, California to attempt
to locate a new source of supply.
POTENTIAL NEW SOURCE OF SUPPLY
As a result of the perceived shipping issues with the drug trafficking
organization’s methamphetamine supply from California to Pennsylvania,
intercepted communications involving Tyrone Baker uncovered that Baker was
attempting to find a new source of supply in California. In several intercepted
communications Baker informed his associates that he was close to acquiring
this new source of supply and was just waiting for confirmation that his new
supplier was ready to do business.
CALL #782 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT
10:47AM, OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Quintana: “Hello.”
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Baker: “Hey Triv.”
Quintana: “Hey.”
Baker: “Listen, you at the house?”
Quintana: “Yea.”
Baker: “Um, What I about to say um, I’m trying to figure something out
man, this dumbass loss ahh um, ah bah bah abh bah. You gotta,
you got, you got you gotta go to work on Thursday and Friday?”
Quintana: “Yea, Thursday....Thursday, Friday and Saturday.”
Baker: “And you said Lamonte can’t pick them up on Thursday and
Friday?”
Quintana: “Lamonte work tonight.”
Baker: “Oh.”
Quintana: “Remember so she works before, before 5, she got to be at work by
5 o’clock.”
Baker: “Ahh I/A.”
Quintana: “Why, what’s wrong?”
Baker: “Clears throat....um. Shit got, Shit just got fucked up again and I
gotta go out I gotta go out LA I gotta go out Cali and shit, I’m just
trying to see if I be able go right now or if I have got to wait till
Sunday...man nut shit ah.”
Quintana: “Something didn’t come?”
Baker: “Yeaaa, he’s like I lost the 15 jawns I went we had the two good runs
and this December I just broke me even and I just lost these jawns
like this shit killin me.”
Quintana: “Why, what it say, it just ain’t come?”
Baker: “It’s just, it’s not, it’s not coming. So now I’m on the trip like man
fuck this shit I got get, I got another situation out in California, not
with Rico, but a better a way better situation for real for real and I
wanna go out I wanna I wanna refill my bread and go out there...
but I was trying to see if I was able to go like sooner than later. But
I was I was about to be like man I’m about to go out to that jawn
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tomorrow I’m about to put ticket in out but you got, you got you got
Juju Thursday and Friday and shit?”
Quintana: “That’s why I was trying to make sure before I said yes to the
bull.”
Baker: “I didn’t listen, I didn’t listen to him remember I told you yesterday
that shit was suppose come today and we can do this like I mean
that shit didn’t come. Ima Ima gonna talk to my mom. Cause I only
need couple days if I leave tomorrow I’ll only need to like till Friday.”
Quintana: “Alright, tomorrow is Wednesday.”
Baker: “Say what?”
Quintana: “Nah, I was trying think. Today only Tuesday.”
Baker: “Yea, Today only Tuesday so like if I leave like say I would much go
for tonight for real but I don’t give a fuck I have to call my man but
I probably I put I/A in for tomorrow and I be back by Friday and shit
but I don’t know, I’m gonna, I’m gonna call you right back Ima Ima
trying Ima gonna figure something out.”
At 4:06 into the call, the conversation became non-pertinent. Based on the
above calls, your affiants opine that Baker was referring to multiple packages
that were seized by law enforcement, including the five packages seized on
December 28, 2021. Baker stated that he “lost the 15 jawns I went we had the
two good runs and this December I just broke me even and I just lost the jawns.”
Based on the content of the call it is also clear to your affiants that Trivinia
Quintana is aware that Baker is engaged in the trafficking of methamphetamine.
Baker and Quintana discuss intimate details of Baker’s role in the operation
including that Baker was attempting to secure a new source of supply. Baker
told Quintana that he needed to go to California to meet a supplier other than
“Rico,” who your affiants believe to be Ricky Evans. In addition to Quintana,
Baker discussed his new source of supply with suspected sub-dealers of his
including Zachary Smith.
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CALL #837 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT 6:25PM,
OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED BY ZACHARY
SMITH, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER.
TRANSCRIPTION BEGINS 1:00 INTO THE CALL.
Baker: “Alright well I/A fuck all that shit, I was calling you about this bro.
Just got off the phone with the plug and shit, he bout to, he bout to
call, he bout to call and see what up. Um, make sure the ice is round
cause I just told him, I’m like yo bro my shit got delayed I’m thinking
about coming out there tomorrow to come fuck with you. He like, he
like, bet like you can fuck you can slide out and I told him I’m trying
to score on both ends. So he was like, you know what, alright let me,
let me call folks real quick that got that shit and he gonna call me
right back and when he call me back Imma, Imma ask him, Imma
ask him if he say yeah everything a go, Imma be like look bro, I’m,
I’m come, I’m coming down with my brother and shit, my brother
gonna come with me and shit cause I don’t like traveling by myself.
And most definitely he gonna say yeah, and then we just gonna take
it from there and shit.”
Smith: “Alright, uhh…”
Baker: “Ya hear me? Uh...”
Smith: “Yeah, I’m with you, I’m with you...I’m with you, you heard me?”
Baker: “Yeah yeah, that’s what I’m trying to see what’s up and shit so he
say he about to call boul now and call me back and let me know
what’s up and shit, I’m trying be out bro, I, I gotta make a move.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “Oh I thought you was turning nigga.”
Smith: “Imma go straight, Imma go straight, Imma go straight...no I’m with
you.”
Baker: “You still going to Walmart?”
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Smith: “Yeah but the Walmart shit gonna be easy, my nigga the game about
to start.”
Baker: “Huh.”
Smith: “Yeah the game start at seven o’clock nigga it’s 6:30.”
Baker: “Nigga the, uh alright, I don’t know what you trying to do right
here.”
Smith: “The Walmart.”
Baker: “Are you trying to go there to watch the game and shit?”
Smith: “No I’m not going to watch it, I’m trying to put these tickets in
bro.”
Baker: “Oh yeah, oh, oh alright.”
Smith: “Walmart is, Walmart is, Walmart right down there the same place,
Walmart is right around the corner from there.”
Baker: “Oh alright.”
Smith: “Feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah I feel you.”
Smith: “So we gotta go that way any way.”
Baker: “Alright shit well I’m on you, I’m following you bro, dumb ass.”
Smith: “Look I’m sending you my vaccination card again right, what you do
is...”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Just click on it, just click on it, and just leave it like, you know how
you can leave the background black and all they gonna see is the
picture? That’s all you do, when you go in they ask you for your
vaccination card you just show them, they don’t check the name on
that shit or none of that, bro, they just they just see the vaccination
card and let you in bro.”
Baker: “You think they’re gonna ask me for my ID?”
Smith: “Nah nigga, you look, you don’t look like no fucking kid bro. Bro they
don’t never card me, bro they don’t never check the name on that
shit, bro, they just be like alright you good. Trust me Black, it was
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that one drawn mother fucker that night, bro you cool bro, trust
me.”
Baker: “So what you gonna use?”
Smith: “I, I, cant go in, cause this the thing, they know me in there.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “At the sports betting jawn. So when they see me they like yo, you
banned you can’t, know what I’m saying. Cause our problem is...”
Baker: “So you trying, you want me to hold hold on you want me to go in to
place a bet for you?”
Smith: “Yeah but you don’t use my name. You just go in there and just bet,
like yo I wanna put these tickets in, feel me?”
Baker: “Oh alright.”
Smith: “Yeah, you gonna...”
Baker: “Oh alright.”
Smith: “The tickets gonna be, the tickets gonna be your tickets.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smith: “And if they hit, cause they act nutty bro they owe me like 900
dollars right now bro. They act nutty, you gotta wait for that shit to
clear and all this other goofy shit, but if the tickets hit you gonna
have to be the one to cash it out too.”
Baker: “Alright shit.”
Smith: “Bro that shit sweet, Black you be overthinking shit bro.”
Baker: “No I’m not even thinking about it, I’m like alright, I don’t give a fuck.
Shit, I aint even thinking about it, I’m thinking about this work bro,
that’s what I’m thinking about.”
Smith: “Bro whatever happened about your little bitch that used to be with
Christina?”
Baker: “Umm, I don’t know, the bitch aint call me back yet. I told her to
make her mind up, what she wanna do, she didn’t really call me
back yet so I’m like fuck it. I was thinking, I was thinking about
hitting her back up, but I don’t give a fuck about that bitch, I already
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hit it, stuck my dick in her, nutted on her face already so I don’t give
a fuck.”
Smith: “I’m done, I was done with the little bitch Christina bro she, I said
this bitch crazy.”
Baker: “Yeah, and I was talking to Pooh, I could have hit Pooh too, but Pooh
and them on some, they in New York and all this shit, bitch I’m not,
I don’t got these move in New York uh uh...”
Smith: “I don’t know what’s up with these bitches.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “They’ll come back around, but I’m trying, I’m not going to lie bro,
I’m trying to run this shit up bro.”
Baker: “Bro.”
Smith: “I aint gonna lie to you bro.”
Baker: “Bro I’m trying to tell you bro, if I, if my line come through like this
shit bro, bro, niggas, this, we, really get rich over night bro.”
Smith: “We is though, we gonna be back.”
Baker: “The weed and the, I’m, the weed, and the, the weed and the ice
cream bro. Niggas gonna be trapped bro, I swear to God.”
Smith: “No we definitely...”
Baker: “The numbers.”
Smith: “Gonna have a good summer bro, the numbers too good.”
Baker: “Definitely, the numbers is too good bro, and they real numbers
like, my mans I/A all the way, like, got that shit bro, like the weed,
with the weed he all the way got that shit, and the folks he
supposedly be with, I know they situated because, he only gonna
put me I/A on someone that’s on the same caliber as him. That’s
what I was telling my man, I was like bro, that’s like if somebody
come out here and then he fuck with, they trying, they trying holler
at me but they want some food, I’m only gonna put em on to either
you or my man Chase, and we all the same caliber motherfuckers.”
Smith: “No, for sure.”
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Baker: “Yeah I’m not gonna put him on, I’m not gonna put somebody with
somebody that’s lower like a middleman or none other shit like that,
naw that’s how I know my man gonna put me on somebody that’s
on that same caliber as him.”
Smith: “They can really, they can really, they can really cover your
order?”
Baker: “Yeah, like real shit, and I already know the boul, whoever he talking
about got that shit. Cause I/A he had the numbers between six and
eight hundred, that’s plug numbers bro, that’s, that’s, that’s plug
numbers bro, like that’s all I been, that’s all I been waiting for bro.”
Smith: “I’m about to, bro I’m about to get on a vicious stacking spree bro, if
that shit go through bro, Imma have a bean, Imma have a bean
before the spring bro. Imma have a bean.”
Baker: “Oh hell yeah.”
Smith: “Imma put up, bro Imma put up, Imma put up a bean, I’mma put
up a bean before March, before the end of March bro.”
Baker: “Yeah bro, fuck around have a bean before March, before my, before
my birthday and shit, bro you know my birthday March 30th.”
Smith: “Yeah bro, Imma for real, for sure you cold bro cause you already
gonna be grabbing that shit bro, I’m talking about bro, before April
bro, I have a bean put up bro, with that bro.”
Baker: “That’s where I’m at, I want that shit to go through, like it gone go
through regardless because my man fuck with the gas, and I, either
way I wanna fuck with the gas with him any way, he talking about
I/A.”
Smith: “That’s a good lean.”
Baker: “I/A 500 all that type shit, the runts, the real I/A”
Smith: “I’m about to, Imma bout to bang this u turn.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Imma about to bang this u turn and pull up right in front of the
casino, ya heard me?”
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Baker: “Alright I’m right behind you.”
Smith: “Alright nigga jump in the wheel with me first though.”
Baker: “I/A”
During the above voice call, Baker refers to the male he’s speaking with as
Zach and Zach refers to Baker as “Black,” which you affiants’ know is Tyrone
Baker’s nickname. It is your affiants’ opinion that this corroborates that Tyrone
Baker is using phone number, 215-980-1764 and Zachary Smith is the user of
phone number 484-929-7202. During the call, Baker and Smith discussed flying
out to Los Angeles to meet with a new “plug.” Your affiants know through their
training, knowledge, and experience that “plug” is a common term for source of
supply. They discussed getting things setup with this “plug” for “weed and ice
cream,” which your affiants know through their training, knowledge, and
experience to refer to marijuana and methamphetamine. They also reference
“food” which is a common slang term for “heroin/fentanyl.” Based on the above,
your affiants opine that this conversation is related to setting up a new source
of supply for illicit drugs from California and that Baker and Smith are involved
in illegal drug trafficking.
SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL NEW SOURCE OF SUPPLY
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants
opine that Baker was looking for a new source of supply in California stemming
from supply issues with Evans.
As detailed below, Baker’s new source agreed to meet with Baker who
subsequently flew to San Francisco to meet with this new source in the Oakland
area of California.
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BAKER CALIFORNIA TRIP (2/2/2022 – 2/7/2022)
CALL #1074 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 3, 2022, AT
1:45PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 610-909-9739, A PHONE
BELIEVED TO BE USED BY WILL WILLIAMS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
00:40 – 02:05
Baker: “I’m not in LA bro, I’m in San Francisco.”
U/M: “I would, I love San, I would love to go out there too, they
got good wine, brewery, I love San Fran. The bay, the bay, I love
the bay.”
Baker: “Well shit, well I ain’t really doing too much, yo it’s been a lot of
shit has been going on because my man got booked like
yesterday I was I/A.”
U/M: “Tryin to make something happen.”
Baker: “On some nut shit, because my man got booked while I was getting
on my flight so like it fucked a lot of shit up like I was like damn
I/A he won’t pick up my phone call at all yesterday.”
U/M: “You talking your man that was out in LA?”
Baker: “Huh?”
U/M: “Your man out in LA?”
Baker: “Not LA, but San Francisco. My man.”
U/M: “Yeah and he got booked, what happened? I/A.”
Baker: “He got booked for some DUI or some shit or some license bullshit.
And he was booked all yesterday. He didn’t get out till late last night,
he just called me and said like...”
U/M: “Hmm.”
Baker: “Yeah, so he was like yeah bro you still out here, I’m like yea, yo this
is crazy, I got booked, deh deh deh deh, so it was like hey I’m glad I
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didn’t have nobody with me because cause it would have been like
a lot of nut shit.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Shit was just going left since I been down here, he just came back
out that jawn we about to link up now.”
U/M: “Who went out who went out there with?”
Baker: “I went out by myself, I’m by myself right now bro.”
10:36 – 12:31
Baker: “Crazy and shit. I am about to be so humble and so with myself.”
U/M: “Yup. Yup. You sound like a smart person.”
Baker: “And yeah, because I’m stacking, I’m, bro, my head is so S/L full,
I’m stacking all these S/L months I’m about to open up another nail
salon this summer, I’m trying to open up 2 I do it, but Imma open
up another jawn this summer, I’m about to be stacking, I/A, I
already got a bunch of designers, I/A. I ain’t doing none of that.”
U/M: “Fuck all that dumbass shit. Save that shit. Save it. Save it. Save it.
Real shit.”
Baker: “Me and my mans were talking about all the bread we spent last
year bro. But I guarantee, like, I blew, no no yo yo yo, I blew like at
least 200 last year just on S/L broads just on the club, I/A between
clubs, jewelry, shopping, like everything, not even blowing, just
everything I did, I/A, salon, everything.”
U/M: “Damn. Fuck that. Mm-mm-mm.”
Baker: “And then, that was just having fun, like, that was just all I/A like
this year I’mma have fun, I’mma be real real real I/A.”
U/M: “All you gotta do is mimic me. You’ll save a whole lot. Watch. Just
mimic me I’ll show you. I’ll tell you exactly what I’m doing. All you
gotta do is mimic S/L big bro and you’ll see. Just watch me. Can
have a blast and I don’t got to be spending all my money like I’m a
maniac. That’s that retarded shit. That shit ain’t I/A. We got a lot
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more closed doors that need to be opened up before we need to be
blowing all this fucking money. You know how many more
opportunities out there that we haven’t taken advantage of? Instead
of throwing it to a bunch of...giving it to a bunch of strippers? I mean
fuck that. That shit is I/A. That shit is not cool.”
During the above voice call, Baker told the male believed to be Will
Williams that he arrived in San Francisco and he’s waiting for his “man” who
was arrested just prior to Baker’s arrival. Your affiants opine that Baker’s “man”
is the potential new source of supply.
Baker and the male believed to be Will Williams also discussed how much
money they spend. Baker stated that he spent “at least 200 last year just on …
clubs, jewelry, shopping.” Your affiants opine that Baker was saying that he
spent $200,000 on clubs, buying jewelry, and shopping. However, a check
through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry Employment
indicated that in 2021 Baker earned $254.00. Based on the above and your
affiants training, knowledge and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that
Baker is involved in illegal activity which allowed him to spend excessive
amounts of money on “clubs, jewelry, and shopping.”
CALLS #1312, 1315, 1317, 1321, 1324, 1328, 1331, 1333, 1337, 1339,
1342, AND 1349 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 4, 2022,
BETWEEN 6:16PM AND 7:06PM, A TEXT MESSAGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN
213-513-9010, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, AND 215-980-1764, A
PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (Call #1312): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #1315): “Yo bro”
Baker (Call #1317): “Yo what’s the number on some jawns rite now”
Evans (Call #1321): “Wat u mean they 125 bro”
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Baker (Call #1324): “Is it any around I’m out Cali rite now handling
something”
Evans (Call #1328): “Yea just hit me let me know when u ready”
Evans (Call #1331): “I got my guy on stand by”
Baker (Call #1333): “Rd”
Evans (Call #1337): “How many”
Baker (Call #1339): “I’m tryna see”
Evans (Call #1342): “So I could get together now when u ready I could have
it all together to come threw bro”
Baker (Call #1349): “Call me”
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, they opine
that the above text message conversation was Baker inquiring about pricing
(“125,” believed to mean $1250) and availability for illegal drugs (“jawns”),
specifically pounds of methamphetamine. Evans responded that he has his “guy
on stand by,” which your affiants opine means that Evans has the illegal drugs
that Baker is asking about and Evans’ source of drugs can make the delivery
whenever Evans and Baker are ready.
CALL #1358 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 4, 2022, AT
7:17PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED BY
ZACHARY SMITH, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smith: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “Yo buddy.”
Smith: “What’s up?”
Baker: “Yeah, ain’t too much and shit. I’m over here out in like little Mexico
and shit. I’m over here in Mo... Mo... Modesto and shit, bro.”
Smith: “Okay.”
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Baker: “With the cartels, this is crazy out in this jawn. But we, we just left
a situation trying to see what’s up. I guess they, I, I was hoping the
numbers would be like super good for me but, they like...”
Smith: “They better though?”
Baker: “A little. Only a, only by like a hundred dollars, like a hundred fifty
dollars.”
Smith: “What they saying?”
Baker: “That’s what I’m saying. Like, they just, that was like a little bit
better ain’t nothing too crazy.”
Smith: “It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be, what, it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be like,
like what? Under, under sixteen like that?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah definitely under that. But it was just, I’mma keep it a
bean, it was supposed to be like six hundred, seven hundred.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “Yeah. But they was talking about, like it might, it’s gonna be like
probably like eleven or some shit but I don’t, I don’t know I/A and
that shit kinda I/A me cause it’s like I ain’t really gonna be able to
really turn up like how I wanted to, like...”
Smith: “Not necessarily.”
Baker: “Like really situate everybody. I mean I can but, it’s just I/A”
Smith: “I hear what you’re saying though. I hear what you’re saying. Yo, did
you ever talk to your man?”
Baker: “I/A what, what you talking about?”
Smith: “For the uh, for the one I/A.”
Baker: “Umm, he, I texted him and shit. He ain’t I/A I’m gonna turn my
phone on now I don’t think he texted me back. Oh yeah, he was
saying who do I got to see? Uh, I’m about to see you and my little,
my, my, going to meet my brother.”
Smith: “Alright, you let me know umm. Imma, umm let me call you in a
little bit but yeah let me.”
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Baker: “Bro, I want I want you to I/A if he said he don’t want that shit and
give it back to, like, I don’t know that shit I don’t I don’t, I just don’t
feel like dealing with the headache right now.”
Smith: “You think, you think he might do something.”
Baker: “Like real, like real, like if it be at, that’s, that’s the only thing cause
I don’t want him to get that shit then to be like it be a whole
headache on top of and... I don’t know.”
Smith: “You think, you think, you think, right, you don’t want him to go
like, he don’t get it back, like if he want his bread back.”
Baker: “Yeah cause he gonna like, aight just gimme, he gonna be like just
gimme some different work, and bro got no, bro got no different work
to give him.”
Smith: “Alright you just gonna forget about it then?”
Baker: “Pshhh I dunno. Y’all, ya ya already hard at them niggas and
shit?”
Smith: “Yeah that’s, tha- tha- that’s my typical lunch. What’s that?”
Baker: “Right nigga this shit’s cray. You can have this shit back.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “But, I’m gonna, you know this is what I’m gonna do, Imma call,
Imma call my man I’m gonna keep it a bean with him. I’m gonna tell
him yo bro this a little what’s his name you can probably deal with
it. Cause, cause he cool and sometimes he be cool with that cause
you know, he can still get it off.”
Smith: “Alright, just let me know.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, they opine
that the above voice call between Baker and Zachary Smith was a conversation
discussing the pricing of a controlled substance, believed to be a pound of
methamphetamine. During the call, Baker stated that he was in Modesto,
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California, which he described as “Little Mexico” and “cartel – this shit crazy.”
GPS coordinates from 215-980-1764 placed the phone in the Modesto, CA area.
Baker stated that the pricing, $1100, was only $150 less than what he was
currently paying. He said that with that pricing he would not be able to turn it
up like he wanted to. Based on the above voice call, coupled with the text
message conversation with Evans, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker was in
Modesto, California to try to find a cheaper source for methamphetamine.
CALL #1385 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 4, 2022, AT
8:20PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 213-513-9010, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo Rico.”
Evans: “Yeah, bro I wasn’t getting your text or your calls. My phone went
blank for a minute bro, for like a cool minute just now. I have to let
it all the way die in order to charge it back up or something. I
guess the charger had on some bullshit.”
Baker: “Oh shit, damn what the fuck.”
Evans: “Man, I said why, I said why, why right now cuz?”
U/M from Baker’s Phone: “I/A it won’t even let you turn it off, you know unless
you call the police, my phone’s doing that to me, what?”
Evans: “Man, bro I’m right here like nigga. Where you been at though?”
Baker: “Yeah, bro.”
Evans: “So who you wit?”
Baker: “I’m with my folks and shit right now and shit. I’m over here like
on the other side of fuckin’ California and shit. Oh. On the other
side of Cali and shit.”
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Evans: “Alright, alright, alright cuz. Look so what’s going on man? What
we doing? You figured it out?”
Baker: “I’m trying to see...I’m trying to see what’s up and shit but umm.
Cause I was thinking about, I was thinking about coming over
there and grabbing and shit. But I was...I was, cause motherfucker
was telling me certain numbers. Bro, I wanted to asked you on
some real shit. What, what number do you be grabbing it for?
Cause I wanna get it, I’m trying to get like a I/A like what the, what
the shit be around.”
Evans: “What you mean?”
Baker: “Like, like what your be grabbing it, and then you, you uh like
umm give it to us and shit. What do you be grabbing it for?”
Evans: “Umm eleven or eleven-five, either-or.”
Baker: “Alright and shit.”
Evans: “Yo look, that’s why I give y’all twelve-five cause I’m only, I’m only
putting the seatbelt on there because I do the sending and all that
too. You feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Evans: “And then you know all them numbers be looking, so I wasn’t
going up on the number on that because I was gonna go up on the
number but it don’t make sense till the nigga grab a twenty, or
forty, or thirty, or whatever the case may be.”
Baker: “Oh, alright I/A.”
Evans: “I/A You feel me? But if a nigga was going, like I was saying, like if
I’m selling two or three, you know if I’m selling two or three I’m
always gonna put thirteen-fifty, fourteen hundred on it.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Now let me see 20 or better better cause that always is gonna get
you a better number than the little three or four that a nigga get on
a regular basis. Ya get me?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah, right, real shit.”
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Evans: “Uh huh, cause it don’t make sense for me to be sitting there
wasting my time for a hundred dollars every time, just for a nigga
to get five or six or seven and, and it’s just a waste of time... seven
hundred dollars a week I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah real rap.”
Evans: “That’s all that makes sense on the number I/A you know how that
shit goes bro, why, why you upset?”
Baker: “Yeah. No cause I’m trying to see, these mother fuckers talking
numbers out here and shit. And I’m trying to really figure out like,
cause you know me and you talked about this shit like how the
numbers should be. Like, I’ve be thinking about the numbers be,
like for the I/A, for the, for the, for the umm, shit we be dealing
with. The numbers be around like, like seven, eight hundred or uh,
like even by a little lower and shit.”
Evans: “Shit bro, I told you, if you finding that number bro you gotta grab
that bro. I’m not gonna stop you from that shit like that cause I’m
not finding that number like that. You feel me?”
Baker: “No, no, no, no, I know that. I, I know that I/A”
Evans: “I never even heard of no number like that, not even coming from a
Mexican nigga bro, like straight up. Like, I never even heard none
pass nine hundred.”
Baker: “Yeah I/A”
Evans: “Like you have, everything is over nine hundred bro. Damn, this
coming from a Mexican head and they give you nine hundred at
the lowest. They never gonna give you eight-fifty, eight hundred
cause that’s what they gotta get it for to sell it to you.
Baker: “That’s what they be getting it for.”
Evans: “So they gonna get you... yeah you get what I’m saying? They
getting it for seven hundred or eight hundred, but they not gonna
give it to me for eight hundred I/A you get what I’m saying? For
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eight hundred or seven hundred what are they money gonna make,
get made at you feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah that’s what I’m saying and shit.”
Evans: “Yeah, that’s... that’s why it’s like it’s like, I told you it’s like every
time you skip to, to the next man, to the next man, to the next
man, to get to the real dude, to get to the real dude bro, you gotta
go through loops and circles and slip, slip it through fucking fire
rings and shit just to get to that nigga.”
Baker: “Right.”
Evans: “Nobody I/A ya feel me? You might get a better pinch than what
I’m giving you but you gonna, still gonna go through a headache
cause they’re go up. Once they go up, they still gonna go up
regardless bro, I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, shit.”
Evans: “It don’t matter. That’s what I said, I don’t try to be the competition
with niggas I just try to tell you nigga I got the lowest price in town
cause I know I got the lowest price in town.”
Baker: “Yeah, shit.”
Evans: “Everybody can give you the, the million lowest numbers bro. But
at the end of the day when you hear the numbers out there it’s
coming from three different parties, or four different parties. So
you gotta go to, from from San Diego, from Mexico to San Diego to
LA. How many hands is that bro already? Just tell me I/A.”
Baker: “That’s a couple hands and shit. And everybody put their number
on it.”
Evans: “Alright, so just to show, yeah I’m not getting the, I’m not getting
the stupid nigga shit like oh yeah they giving me uh, uh oh I got
the straight cartel like jawn like so it’s not, it’s not, it’s not like
that. So, it’s like I’m going through three different parties every
party gotta get paid at least a hundred. Everybody put a hundred
on it cause they know how much they grabbing anyway.”
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Baker: “Yeah. Alright.”
Evans: “You get it? So if its fifty dollars to a hundred that I/A here is only
gonna charge fifty to a hundred dollars extra on anything. But,
everybody else is gonna always...the black niggas is going for sure
to put up fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred cause they know what
the numbers is I/A or they getting it and they want to make a
bigger profit margin out here.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Then, you feel me? Then that’s just what it come down to bro. But
it’s not no like uh, like identical mathematic wise it’s just like nigga
if I gotta go through three different, four different parties for that
work to get your meat, ain’t going to have to, somebody gonna have
to charge a hundred dollars throughout the whole way.”
Baker: “Right shit.”
Evans: “And by the time you get your meat, I don’t want nothing but a
hundred dollars cause I already know how to, I already know how
to work that whole little profit margin after we first started you feel
me?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Evans: “It wouldn’t have made sense if I taxed y’all way over the to...way
over the top and then just to get like, you feel me, just to get the
profit out here. It’s cool and all that but it’s just like if you working
with me cause everybody grabbing thirty, forty, fifty. Why Imma go
up eight hundred on each one for uh, for all these niggas you get
me?”
Baker: “Yeah I feel and shit.”
Evans: “That’s why I’m like I/A but my nigga just called me right now so I
be chill see what’s going on too like is niggas ready, are you trying
to come down today or type shit or naw.”
Baker: “I don’t know I’ll text you or something. I’m, I’m like seven, eight,
like seven hours away from you. So I’m just trying to see. I’m trying
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to see when uh like when we gonna do this for real for real. Imma
definitely let you know something like end of the night and shit.
And then yeah by the end of the night Imma check back and let
you know what’s up.”
Evans: “Alright. Bet, bet. I got you though.”
Baker: “Alright keep you posted bro, I got you.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of this call between Tyrone Baker and Ricky “Rico” Evans is
related to the trafficking of methamphetamine from the Los Angeles area to the
Philadelphia area for further distribution. In the call, Baker complained to Evans
that he expected to be able to get cheaper prices in California, and Evans replied
that getting lower prices is not as easy as Baker thought. Evans explained to
Baker that even to get to him, the methamphetamine must travel through several
individuals, who each add $100 a pound to the price. Evans says it would not
make sense to “tax” Baker and that everyone is grabbing “thirty, forty, fifty” from
him, essentially tells Baker that he makes his money by selling high quantities
instead of charging a significant mark up. Evans also told Baker that if Baker
bought twenty or more, he would always get him “a better number.” Your affiants
know this to mean that if Evans buys twenty (20) or more pounds of
methamphetamine from Baker, the price per pound will be cheaper.
In its totality, the content of the call was Ricky Evans telling Tyrone Baker
that the price Baker is expecting to pay per pound is unrealistic. Evans
concluded by telling Baker that his supplier is ready to do business and Evans
will be able to get the methamphetamine that Baker needs as soon as Baker
indicates he is ready for it. Baker responded that he’ll let Evans know once he’s
ready.
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CALLS #1388, 1459, 1464, AND 1483 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 FROM
FEBRUARY 4-5, 2022, BETWEEN 213-513-9010, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Evans: “If u out tryna grab a dub or better make sure u come this way tho
so a nigga come work a better number then the 1250 before u go
spend somewhere else.”
Baker: “Bro I’m a slid over there in the am.”
Baker: “Yo bro call me.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
the above text message from Ricky Evans, the California source of
methamphetamine, was related to a potential drug sale. Evans was telling Baker
that if he purchases more than a “dub,” commonly used street slang for “20” and
therefore believed to be a reference to twenty (20) pounds of methamphetamine,
they can work on a better price then the $1250 per pound Baker typically paid.
After meeting with the potential new source in the Oakland section of
California, Backer flew to Los Angeles and met with Ricky Evans.
Los Angeles Trip – February 6, 2022
Baker was picked up at Los Angeles International Airport by the user of
424-744-2079, Ricky Evans. A review of the GPS pings associated with Baker’s
phone, 215-980-1764, showed that Baker’s phone traveled from Los Angeles
International Airport toward 3112 W. 67th Street, Los Angeles, California. This
address is known to be associated with Ricky Evans. Ultimately Baker’s phone
pinged off a cell tower in the immediate vicinity of 3112 W. 67th Street, Los
Angeles, California for several hours. The range of these pings varied between 88
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meters accuracy and 3339 meters accuracy between 11:30AM EST until 6:15PM
EST (see below).
(photo depicts ping of Tyrone Baker’s phone 215-980-1764 location in relation to 3112 W. 67th Street, Los Angeles,
CA, an address associated with Ricky Evans at 11:30AM EST on February 6, 2022)
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(photo depicts ping of Tyrone Baker’s phone 215-980-1764 location in relation to 3112 W. 67th Street, Los Angeles,
CA, an address associated with Ricky Evans between 11:30AM EST and 6:15PM EST on February 6, 2022)
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants believe
that the user of 424-744-2079, Ricky Evans, and Tyrone Baker traveled to 3112
W. 67th Street, Los Angeles, CA for the purpose of negotiating a multi-pound
methamphetamine deal.
PACKAGE SHIPMENTS During the court ordered wire interceptions which began on January 27,
2022, and in conjunction with both physical and electronic surveillance, package
shipments were identified as being shipped to Tyrone Baker, Jhamir Winans,
Joshua Quiles, and Shakeem Johnson.
SHIPMENTS TO TYRONE BAKER
During this investigation, Detectives identified packages from California
that were shipped to addresses associated with Tryone Baker. The court ordered
wire interceptions and surveillance led to the identification of the following
packages:
BAKER SHIPMENT #1 – 4.88LBS PACKAGE DELIVERED
ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022
On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Baker left California via Los Angeles
International Airport and returned to Philadelphia on a red-eye flight. A review
of the pings received relative to Baker’s phone ultimately confirmed that Baker
took a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Philadelphia International
Airport, arriving in Philadelphia at approximately 6:00AM EST.
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After Baker was dropped off at the Los Angeles airport, intercepted
communication between Baker’s phone and multiple phone numbers associated
with Ricky Evans indicated that Baker had left a second cell phone behind with
Baker.
CALLS #1860, 1865, 1866, 1869, 1872, 1873, 1876, 1877, 1880 ON
DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7, 2022, BETWEEN 12:52 AM AND
1:07 AM, A SERIES OF ATTEMPTED OUTGOING CALLS AND TEXT
MESSAGES TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, FROM
215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (#1860): Failed Voice Call
Baker (#1865): Failed Voice Call
Baker (#1866): Failed Voice Call
Baker (#1869): Failed Voice Call
Baker (#1872): Attempted Text Message – Baker “Yo pick up the phone”
Baker (#1873): Failed Voice Call
Baker (#1876): Attempted Text Message – Baker “Yooooooo pick up the dammm
phone.”
In Call #1877 Baker spoke to an unknown female who stated that she had
Evans’ phone but will have Evans’ call Baker. Baker then attempted to send a
follow up text message that says, “Tell him I left my phone and my hat” (Call
#1880). At 1:10AM, Baker received a call from Evans. As detailed below, Baker
informed Evans that he left his phone and hat behind.
CALL #1881 ON 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7, 2022, AT 1:10 AM, AN
INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 323-590-6091, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
ASSOCIATED WITH RICKY EVANS’ GIRLFRIEND/ASSOCIATE, TO 215-980-
1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
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It should be noted that the phone number that called Baker’s phone
number during this call was 323-590-6091. Based on the voices on the call, the
content of the call, and the lack of further communication using this phone
number, your affiants opine that Ricky Evans was using the phone number of
his girlfriend or other associate to call Baker.
Evans: “I/A aint gonna keep talking about all that.”
Baker: “Hello?”
Evans: “Yo Black.”
Baker: “Yo bro, yo you seen my phone back there?
Evans: “Yes I do man, I’m pissed off.”
Baker: “And I was running for ya’ll car but I was like, oh my god I got no
numbers for this I/A dog.”
Evans: “I know and I was just talking to I/A texting while I was leaving up
there I was just telling her to you so that I could make sure that you
had everything and I/A like you know? I was just calling, just telling
her like man send me his number, I’m like he probably texting you
now cause I’m over there calling you looking for my number, for my
own number to call yo ass to tell cuh to pick up.”
Baker: “This shit bro, look, I’m already on the plane right I couldn’t really,
I couldn’t turn around whatever, look I need you to next day that
jawn to me. Like, when you send the what’s it named tomorrow, I
need you to like, the what’s it named I need you to 2 day, 2 day that,
but next day the phone though. I got I left my hat too, I don’t know
where my hat is, probably in the house.
Evans: “Alright Imma next day the hat and shit together.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Evans: “And my I/A to give me the bread for the sending, nigga. I see I was,
I was fucking up too.”
Baker: “Shit drawn.”
Evans: “Fuck cuh, I/A.”
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Baker: “I/A.”
Evans: “Just gonna call you in the morning, we gonna get it all situated in
the morning. Imma send, Imma for sure next day the phone with the
I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah next day, next day the phone and the hat. But you can
do um, two-day shipping on ground with the um, with the what’s it
named and shit.”
Evans: “Alright that’s a bet.”
Baker: “Alright thank you, I’m just glad you got it so at least you got it you
can send it to me.”
Evans: “Alright yeah, I just said to them I’m like fuck this the money maker,
cuh, this nigga need this right now man.”
Baker: “Ah shit, I need that jawn, bad.”
Evans: “I said that, cuh, I’m like fuck this nigga need this phone and he
over here I/A and shit.”
Baker: “Ah, shit.”
Evans: “Alright, but that’s cool though, but it’s a bet bro, Imma make sure
this one get to you anyway though.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Evans: “I/A.”
Baker: “Alright it’s a bet, alright Imma call you tomorrow when I land and
stuff.”
Evans: “Alright that’s cool.”
Baker: “Alright Brodie.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that when Evans refers to Baker’s forgotten phone as the “money maker,” he is
implying that the phone is used by Baker to sell drugs. Further, the importance
of this phone to Baker is apparent when he tells Evans to “next day” it to him, a
reference to having the phone sent via overnight delivery. Additionally, when
Baker says to Evans, “you can do, um, two-day shipping on ground with the um,
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with the what’s it named and shit,” your affiants opine that Baker is referring to
the methamphetamine that he purchased from Evans while visiting him in Los
Angeles which will be shipped separately from the package containing Baker’s
phone.
CALL #2098 ON 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7, 2022, AT 2:04 PM, AN
INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Blackity Black, what it do Brodie?”
Baker: “Aint too much, I’m chilling bro.”
Evans: “You said the jacket was in the back?”
Baker: “You said what?”
Evans: “You said the jacket was in the back?”
Baker: “Yeah I’m, I’m pretty sure the jacket was in the back too. Because
you know when I came back into the crib after Peachy dropped me
off, I didn’t um, I didn’t grab, I didn’t go in the back I/A.”
Evans: “I left my, I left my, I left my shit too, that’s why I said cause I wanted
to know where cause I had left my shit my damn self.”
Baker: “Alright yeah, cause I know, I know my hat, I know my hat for sure
in the back, and um, and um I/A I know my hat for sure in the back
and I think my um, my fucking what’s it name in the back too, my
hoodie.”
Evans: “Alright what kinda hoodie was it?”
Baker: “It’s like a little Dolce Gabbanaa hoodie, it was like the one like the
it was brown on the inside and it had the patches on it.”
Evans: “Alright I’m, Imma have my mom put it up for you right nigga.”
Baker: “Alright you already got my phone?”
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Evans: “Yeah I already got your phone, that was the main important thing
I had grabbed last night, I/A, it was in the backseat with you, you
just forgot it in the cup holder.”
Baker: “Yeah it slid out and shit, I ain’t I/A.”
Evans: “It slid out but you was high as a bitch cuz, and you was sleep I
forgot I/A my nephew said we forgot to ask that nigga did he have
everything. I/A didn’t wake up feeling like he lost nothing I/A go go
go.”
Baker: “Yeah cause the juice had me done, like that shit, I was sleep when
I was in the car with Peachy, and I was sleep when I was in your car,
I was knocked out.”
Evans: “I know cuz, I said, I said I know my nigga had a good time cause he
over here back here snoring. Cuz said, I said hey Black, I said what
uh airline, I said just take cuz to Delta bro cause we already here.
But I was like I/A this nigga started snoring (laughing).”
Baker: “I was knocked the fuck out dog, that juice had me done.”
Evans: “Where the fuck I put my hoodie at (in background).”
Baker: “Alright bro what you want me to send you the addy’s and shit.”
Evans: “Yeah send me the addy, send me some money and um, send me
like 2 – 250 cause for the, uh, for the phone and the what’s it named
I/A and if it’s any extra other than 250 I’ll let you know.”
Baker: “Alright and shit, I/A, alright I’m listening to, I/A.”
Evans: “Should be no more I/A for your forehead and for the uh, for the
phone shouldn’t be nothing but like 80 bucks, a hundred bucks
I/A.”
Baker: “Alright, 80, cause, you, what you on your way to Box City, you
boutta be on your way up there?”
Evans: “I’m already on my way right now, I’m just stopping right here at
Target to go get me some more ceiling wrap, I didn’t have no more
ceiling wrap to get your shit back cause one of them like totally
busted.”
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Baker: “Alright, well you said it’s a hour away, by time you get up there, I
should, I should have both the addresses sent to you.”
Evans: “Oh alright, that’s a bet. Oh well it’s just two going to two type of
places or something?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah, it is.”
Evans: “Ok, now I didn’t know that, alright that’s I/A.”
Baker: “Alright, alright good looking bro.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that Baker and Evans were discussing the shipment of two packages (phone
package and suspected methamphetamine package) to Baker by Evans from Los
Angeles, California to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. More specifically,
Evans told Baker that he would send the package to two separate addresses.
Your affiants believe that the act of sending two separate packages is further
indication that the second package is related to the trafficking of
methamphetamine, because if the contents of both packages was legitimate,
Evans would send everything in one package to one address instead of splitting
them into two.
As promised, Baker followed up with Evans by sending him two addresses
and two names to send the packages to.
CALLS #2104, 2107, 2110, 2114, 2141 ON 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY
7, 2022, BETWEEN 2:31PM AND 6:02PM, INCOMING/OUTGOING TEXT
MESSAGES BETWEEN 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS,
AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (Call 2104): “The clothes and phone go to 57 Melrose Ave East
Lansdowne, PA 19050.”
Baker (Call 2107): “Tyrone Baker.”
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Baker (Call 2110): “157 N Edgewood St Philadelphia, PA 19139- Frankin
Scurry”
Evans (Call 2114): “Bet”
Evans (Call 2141): “On my way now.”
CALLS #2153 AND 2156 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7,
2022, BETWEEN 6:00PM AND 6:02PM, INCOMING MMS TEXT MESSAGES
FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, FROM 215-980-
1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
(Left (Call #2153) – image of receipt for a UPS Next Day Air Saver addressed to Tyrone Baker
Right (Call #2156) – image of receipt for a UPS parcel addressed to Franklin Scurry)
Based on these receipts and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and
experience with drug related parcel interdiction, your affiants know that the
payments for both of these packages being made in cash and that they were paid
for on different receipts are relevant – payments in cash can conceal the sender’s
identity and by keeping the packages separate, separate receipts, can further
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protect everyone’s identity on the chance that one of the parcels is intercepted.
In addition, your affiants know that overnight packages sent to addresses in the
Philadelphia area are sorted through the UPS facility located at the Philadelphia
International Airport.
CALL #2157 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7, 2022, AT
6:02PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY
RICKY EVANS, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Evans: “Eh.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”.
Evans: “Yo bro, so did you get the first one and the second one?”
Baker: “Yeah, I hope you sent to the right addresses bro.”
Evans: “I’ll take a picture of the address and show you.”
Baker: “No, no I got the addresses. The you sent to Melrose, what was that?
The clothes stuff right?”
Evans: “Yeah that’s the- well I couldn’t go pick up your clothes and come
way over here. So, it’s just your phone right now.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Evans: “So I’m just letting you know that. But I/A.”
Baker: “Oh, that’s why it was next… oh you did next day…”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Baker: “…that’s why it was 140. Okay. And the one going to Edgewood
that’s the stuff?”
Evans: “Yeah an.d that’s the stuff. And then that- that- that’s for two day
and it was $104 so that was cheaper than the fuckin’ phone. And
the box is way smaller than fuckin’ the box on the- on the jawn.”
Baker: “Yeah its ‘cause of the next day shit.”
Evans: “Yeah that next day shit be stupid. I’m like God damn. But its two
fif- it was 250 exactly.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool then.”
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Evans: “Uh huh, it was 250 I/A and then uh one-oh-five, so it was like 250,
245, I mean one- 245 exactly. But you know 250.”
Baker: “Alright. I’m gonna send some to ya cash app in now.”
Evans: “Alright, that’s cool. But yeah everything’s done now. And yes I did
send it to the right addresses nigga. (laughs)”
Baker: “Oh alright. That’s what threw me off. I’m like damn that jawn
heavier. I’m like yo he probably sent that there but I forgot it was
next day and all that shit. And he was, he was I/A next week.”
Evans: “Yeah that’s what told me I/A I’m like the box not even a whole
pound, my nigga they like.”
Baker: “Right, shit.”
Evans: “I said that shit not even 50 and 50, I don’t even know what 50 is
under a pound I/A bro.”
Baker: (Laughs)
Evans: “The fuck. They like I/A 140.”
Baker: “Jawn light as shit, like…”
Evans: “I’m like, well I ain’t paying for it so go ahead ‘cuz I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, I/A I’m glad you did that ‘cause I need that jawn, like that’s
my…”
Evans: “I/A needs the phone though for real. I’m like just go ahead man,
just I/A that the stupidest I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah. Yeah shit I/A shit.”
Evans: “(laughs) I/A but both of them out though, so they both good. Uh,
that nigga Chase keep trying to call me but you know his bull- his
bullshit ass phone he ain- he don’t even, he don’t pick up and cuz
don’t call back. So, I don’t know what’s up with this nigga. See, see
what’s up, what he wanted and let me know ‘cuz.”
Baker: “It’s crazy. I was on the phone with my little bitch. I just tried calling
Chase and he picked up. I’m gonna try to call him now see if he
picks up and shit.”
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Evans: “I/A bro, I’m trying to cut a little bullshit I/A after you. (Laughs) That
nigga needs to get cuz a different jawn or something.”
Baker: “Oh shit. I don’t know what the fuck. I’m about to see what’s up now.
I guess he don’t like picking up. What’s I/A your pop be back up in
contact with you?”
Evans: “No I’m waiting on that call now. I was about to tell you that, I’m just
waiting on pop’s call to let me know what’s up ‘cuz. And I’m pretty
sure he ain’t got a hold of that nigga yet.”
Baker: (audible ringtone consistent with Apple FaceTime can be heard on
Baker’s line)
Evans: “He ready, he ready to move like yesterday through. So, I already
told you cuz ready to move like yesterday.”
Baker: “I/A shit.”
Evans: “I was just- I’m just waiting on the umm perfect opportunity. It
presented itself when you told him you was out here just r-
randomly, sporadically ‘cuz.”
Baker: “Uh whatever that’s cool.”
Evans: “We gonna see what’s up. I’m gonna tap in with you and let you
know by the end of the day. I try hitting you up by nine.”
Baker: “Yeah definitely, definitely just call me when you know something
and shit.”
Evans: “Oh I/A I got you bro. And he already knows how to put that shit in
motion ASAP.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. Definitely be able to. Shit was I/A.”
Evans: “(laughs) I’m ready to make that shit boom now ‘cuz.”
Baker: “Oh shit bro.”
Evans: “That’s all, that’s all he needed now. That was the last little touchy
subject. Like, fuck cuz, somebody needs to give it to a nigga.”
Baker: “Oh real rap.”
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Evans: “I’m gonna see though. But I’m gonna tap into with you bro. I’m
finna go grab something to eat with baby and I/A and turning back
in for the crib.”
Baker: “Alright. This a I/A bro.”
Evans: “Alright I got you.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above detailed text messages, multimedia messages, and voice call show
the final stages of a methamphetamine transaction between Tyrone Baker and
Ricky Evans. Additionally, Evans shipped a second package, which contained a
cell phone owned, controlled, and used by Tyrone Baker, which Baker
mistakenly left with Ricky Evans while Baker was in Los Angeles negotiating the
drug deal with Evans. This phone holds specific importance to Baker and this
investigation as it was described by Evans as Baker’s “money maker.” As
previously stated, your affiants opine that this phone is Baker’s “money maker”
because Baker uses it to sell the methamphetamine that he purchases from
Evans.
FEBRUARY 9, 2022, PACKAGE DELIVERY – 157 N. EDGEWOOD STREET
As detailed above and identified through the UPS tracking information sent
by Evans to Baker, on February 7, 2022, a parcel was mailed via UPS 2nd Day
Air from California to “Franklin Scurry” at 157 N. Edgewood Street, Philadelphia.
The parcel was a 12”x9”x9” box, weighing 4.88 lbs., with tracking
#1Z9943920292805813.
On February 9, 2022, fixed surveillance observed a UPS delivery truck stop
in front of 157 N. Edgewood Street. The UPS delivery driver placed a brown box,
similar in size to the dimensions listed above, on the front porch of 157 N.
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Edgewood Street. A check through UPS records showed that the package was
delivered at 11:01AM.
A check of intercepted voice calls prior to the delivery adds more details to
the delivery, as follows:
CALL #2596 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
8:16AM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Quintana: “Hello.”
Baker: “I/A”
Quintana: “Yeah my bad. I was inside Wawa I/A. And I left my phone in the
car.”
Baker: “Did she eat yet?”
Quintana: “Nah, she ain’t eat yet. Uh, I, I literally had woke up at, at um, seven
fifty, six fifty something so I was rushing to get them to daycare by
seven thirty. Uh, cause if I drop, if I don’t drop I/A by then I can’t
get her to drop her off. You know I mean, I thought I was, and I have
to be to work by eight. But uh, all she had was that bottle. Um. Hold
on. She uh, I/A. Oh yeah.”
Baker: “I/A”
Quintana: “I’m ah let you know if that, if the daycare gets that situated they
said, they told me that um, that it, cause last time they, member the
power was out? And then at like eleven o’clock they hit me up and
asked me did I still want to bring her. But we don’t got water neither.
Nobody got water. So I/A school closed. Uh. I’m, I’m guessing
Nayas’s school prolly closed too because Da, Dmani says when she
turned the water on, barely nothing was coming out. So it don’t, it
must affected all the way up to my mom and them crib too because
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I/A uh don’t got no. They just I/A. But like if they situated they’ll
call, they said they’ll contact us. And if they text me and say that
they, that they, you know or call or say that they open I’ll let you
know so you can drop her off I/A.”
Baker: “Hey yo, who gonna be home?”
Quintana: “Um, Dmani home right now. Because she got school, she on
line.”
Baker: “Alright tell her some mail ca, I got mail coming in today and shit.
I/A. I was hoping, damn I was hoping, fucking, fuck.”
Quintana: “You was hoping what?”
Baker: “Naw like I was gonna be there to, get the, get my mail but.”
Quintana: “Well you could go there, shit.”
Baker: “I got JuJu. I can still, I I/A.”
Quintana: “I/A”
Baker: “But I mean, I got JuJu. My mom not here. Nobody here.”
Quintana: “To go where, to, to, to the house?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Quintana: “Well I/A JuJu in the car and go, and go in the house. Only thing is
taking it back.”
Baker: “Yeah, I’ll prolly just leave, I’ll prolly just have to leave it at your
house or something till later or something, I don’t know.”
Quintana: “Alright. Or go get it when it, when they say out for delivery or
something. That mail be coming kinda late, but I don’t know if that’s
different because it’s, if he overnight it or something like that I/A.”
Baker: “No he did, it was, it was two days so it’s prolly not. I don’t know
when it’s gonna get there, prolly not til the end of the day. But I’m
ah just check it and see. I’m ah check in a little bit see if it’s out for
delivery. Yo I just, I’m just wanna see if Dmani can just bring it in.
Cause you said she outta school?”
Quintana: “Yeah she out, she on line I/A.”
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Baker: “Alright that’s cool. Well they come I know she’ll bring it in. Can you
just tell Dmani, tell Dmani um, I, I got mail coming in so if she hear
the man.”
Quintana: “Alright.”
Baker: “You hear me?”
Quintana: “Yeah I hear you.”
Baker: “Ahright.”
Quintana: “Ahright.”
CALL #2602 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
8:24AM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo T.”
Quintana: “What name is on that jawn?”
Baker: “It’s my brother’s name on there.”
Quintana: “Alright.”
CALL #2652 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
1:23PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-339-4972, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
USED BY DMANI CAIN, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Cain: “Hello?”
Baker: “Hey Mani.”
Cain: “Hey.”
Baker: “You still at the house?”
Cain: “Yea, your package. Yea, there’s a package here for you.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Cain: “Alright.”
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CALLS #2665 AND 2666 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9,
2022, AT 2:19PM, AN INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE AND OUTGOING VOICE
CALL FROM/TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS,
TO/FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Evans (#2665): “Everything good bro?”
Call #2666
Baker: “Yo I/A.”
Evans: “Everything good?”
Baker: “Yeah, I/A uhm she just called me and said uhm everything
landed.”
Evans: “I/A hat, I’m going to send it, I’m going to send it out, I’m going to
send it out with the shit on the next one.”
Baker: “Oh, oh you did see it?”
Evans: “Yeah, I got your, I got your hat and your sweater S/L.”
Baker: “I/A appreciate that bro. Alright bet.”
Evans: “I/A and then, I had, I had called you last night to talk to Peaches
because I had went over there last night.”
Baker: “Oh yeah, damn man I/A, damn it says missed call. I must have
been, I must have been knocked out or something.”
Evans: “Yeah, I understand. I was talking to cuz last night and he wanted
to uhm see uhm chop it up wit cuz, let me just call bro right now
while we right here. But uhm. Yeah bro, I’m going to send uhm the
rest of your shit with your shit on the next one. I got you bro.”
Baker: “That’s real good. I wanted to show you uhm I/A. Yeah that’s
probably fine. Alright then, alright bro, just uhm I’m just check in
with you later.”
Evans: “Alright I got you bro.”
Baker: “Alright bro.”
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Based on the above voice calls and the earlier voice calls with Evans (424-
744-2079) where Baker told Evans, “you can do, um, two-day shipping on
ground with the um, with the what’s it named and shit,” your affiants opine that
this second package contained the methamphetamine that Baker purchased
from Evans while visiting him in Los Angeles and that Baker and Evans were
using their cellphones to facilitate this suspected drug transaction. The affiants
also opine that Baker was the intended recipient of this package, suspected to
contain methamphetamine, even though it was addressed to his brother,
Franklin Scurry. Baker instructed Trivinia Quintana to expect the package and
have Dmani Cain, who is off from school due to the water main break, bring the
package inside the house after it’s been delivered. A female, believed to be Cain,
confirmed that the package was delivered. Baker then followed up with Evans
and confirmed that “everything landed,” which your affiants opine means that
Baker received the package containing drugs.
SURVEILLANCE ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022 – TYRONE BAKER
On February 9, 2022, fixed and mobile surveillance was used to observe
the actions and movements of Tyrone Baker. At approximately 4:49PM, Detective
Wright observed Tyrone Baker, wearing dark colored jacket, white t-shirt, black
boots, and gray sweatpants enter the driver’s seat of his white Dodge Charger as
it was parked in the driveway of 57 Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne. Baker
departed the driveway and traveled out of the area.
At approximately 4:56PM, fixed surveillance observed Trivinia Quintana
enter the front porch area of 157 N. Edgewood Street, Philadelphia.
Surveillance, including Detectives Lavin, Fuentes, and Stanley, followed
Baker’s vehicle as it traveled to 157 N. Edgewood Street, Philadelphia, arriving
at approximately 5:00PM. Baker parked the vehicle on the sidewalk across the
street from 157 N. Edgewood Street. He and his juvenile daughter exited the
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vehicle and entered 157 N. Edgewood Street at approximately 5:01PM.
At approximately 5:04PM, Baker exited 157 N. Edgewood Street,
Philadelphia, PA, which matched the characteristics of the UPS parcel which was
delivered earlier in the day. He placed the parcel inside the vehicle and departed
the area.
Surveillance followed Baker as he returned to 57 Melrose Avenue, East
Lansdowne, arriving at approximately 5:18PM. He retrieved the box from the
vehicle and carried it into the house located at 57 Melrose Avenue, East
Lansdowne.
SUMMARY OF DELIVERY OF PACKAGE CONTAINING SUSPECTED
METHAMPHETAMINE
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that a package containing methamphetamine was shipped via UPS from
California to Baker at 157 N. Edgewood Street, Philadelphia. Baker picked up
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the un-opened package at 157 N. Edgewood Street and brought it to 57 Melrose
Avenue3.
BAKER SHIPMENT #2 – 10.41LBS PACKAGE
DELIVERED ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022
On February 11, 2022, Baker started planning another trip to California.
CALL #3124 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT
6:08PM, OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
04:30 – 05:00
Baker: “Hey Tre, I gotta, what, what days, what days you gotta I/A next
week because I do have to call my man and I got go back out LA and
shit. But, I don’t, I gotto go back out there like next Tuesday or
Wednesday, I think it’s next Wednesday.”
Quintana: “(sigh) Uh, let me see if they give me the hours for next week and if
not, let’s see... see I have to take a picture of this shit. I ain’t never
sent you my schedule?”
In the above excerpt from the voice call between Baker and Quintana,
Baker tells Quintana that he needs to go “back out” to Los Angeles next week.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with the
facts of this investigation including Baker’s prior trip to Los Angeles on February
2 – 7, 2022, it is their opinion that Baker is planning a return trip to meet with
his source of supply during the week of February 13, 2022, and was calling
Quintana to figure out dates when he would not be needed to watch his daughter.
3 A seizure, search warrant, and subsequent controlled delivery of the other parcel related to Baker’s "money maker" phone, will be discussed later in this affidavit.
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CALL #3338 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 12, 2022, AT
11:39PM, INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-929-7202, USED BY
ZACHARY SMITH, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo Zack.”
Smith: “Yo it sound, it sound like you outside bro, where you at?”
Baker: “I’m nowhere near outside, yeah I’m in the crib bro.”
Smith: “I don’t know, I was gonna see if you wanted to go to Oasis or
something.”
Baker: “Yeah, no I cant even, I got my daughter with me tonight, I got my
daughter with me the whole weekend.”
Smith: “Oh alright, ok ok ok I/A.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smith: “What?”
Baker: “Bub said you was out in Virginia and shit.”
Smith: “I’m back nigga.”
Baker: “Laughs it is funny though, he said that shit to me I was like man
Zack probably come back in a couple days. That nigga fuck around
and probably be back tonight.”
Smith: “Yeah I’m about to call bub, you fired, you fired as my wingman
dawg you done, bro. I gotta find another friend, I gotta find, you,
they don’t make I/A like they used to, you done bro.”
Baker: “Yo I’ll be, I’ll be, out bro I can’t go no where right now, I can’t.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “I got the youngin man, I would definitely be outside.”
Smith: “Imma have to get some of these hoes without you.”
Baker: “(Laughs) I/A damn.”
Smith: “Alright bro, just call, just call me bro.”
Baker: “I got you.”
Smith: “Yo what’s up with the windows, bro”
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Baker: “(Laughs) Bro, that shit on it bro, I fucked around for real for real,
Imma keep it a bean.”
Smith: (Loud music playing)
Baker: “Da fuck?”
Smith: “No, no, no, my, relax bro, what’s up?”
Baker: “But I fuck around be, I fuck around be going, I don’t know, I might
be going over there tomorrow or Monday. Cause my man want me
to um, my man want me to um wait, cause he about to send my gas
out over there. And that shit probably gonna be here like
Wednesday. But I’m about to tell him my man fuck that shit bro,
like, if y’all gonna be out there, I’ll just come there, I’ll just come to
LA Monday and shit so we can get, get the what’s it named shit
situated… yeah for real, for real (yawn).”
Smith: “Alright bro, just, just, just, call me bro.”
Baker “Alright I got you Brodie.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Based on the references to “Zack” during the above call, it is your affiants’
opinion that this provides additional support to their belief that Zachary Smith
is the user of phone number 484-929-7202. As detailed in this affidavit, it is
your affiants’ opinion that “windows” is a slang term used by Baker and his
associates to refer to methamphetamine. During the above call between Baker
and Zachary Smith, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker was discussing another
trip to California and that Baker was expecting a package of “gas” or marijuana
this week.
CALL #3938 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 16, 2022, AT
7:00PM, INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-929-7202, USED BY ZACHARY
SMITH, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
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00:00 - 01:41
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “Yo bro you still trying to go tonight for sure.”
Baker: “Of course.”
Smith: “Alright. What time we going?”
Baker: “Whatever time you ready bro.”
Smith: “Alright man, ah um Imma Imma about draw my attention to the
other I/A. What you, what you end up getting into yesterday.”
Baker: “Shit, chillin.”
Smith: “Alright, Imma um.”
Baker: “I ain’t doing nothin just counting this bread getting ready for LA.”
Smith: “I hear it, I hear you count it.”
Baker: “Ya man.”
Smith: “How much you taking out there with you?”
Baker: “Ugh, either ten or thirteen, I only need to take ten with me for real
for real, to complete my... to yea, Imma Imma take thirteen. Imma
have three grand on pocket ten grand for the work.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Baker: “Yea, that’s Imma do I’ll take like thirteen and I just taking cause I
only for real for real I only had like seven I just made this last little
bit of bread the last two days I was trying get rid all the other shit I
was selling eight balls, quarters, halves, ounces (laughs) yamean I
had to take my hustle all the way up.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “Ugh nah, you know how we do.”
Smith: “Yea Imma um, Imma call you in a little bit I just getting myself
together um I’m in the crib I’ve been stuck in the crib with Ashley
all fucking day dog.”
Baker: “I know that she be loving it.”
Smith: “That bitch ain’t let me out of her sights dog.”
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During the above intercepted call between Baker and Smith, Baker told
Smith that he had been “hustling” by selling “eight balls, quarters, halves,
ounces” – all common quantities of illegal drug sales, to try to make more money.
Baker continued that he was bringing $13,000 total, including $10,000 for the
“work” during his trip to LA. During the call, a currency counting machine could
be heard in the background as Baker stated that he was counting money.
According to the GPS coordinates of Baker’s phone, 267-670-4429, at 7:09PM
on February 14, 2022, Baker’s phone was within 3 meters of coordinates
(39.942116, -75.262270) – this is in close proximity to 57 Melrose Avenue, East
Lansdowne. Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is
their opinion that Baker was planning another trip to Los Angeles, California to
coordinate a drug transaction and he was home at 57 Melrose Avenue using a
currency counting machine to count the U.S. currency he planned to bring to
California to complete the drug transaction.
CALL #5208 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022, AT 7:19
PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE TO 610-909-9739, A PHONE USED BY WILL
WILLIAMS, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
01:14 – 05:19
Williams: “Where you at?”
Baker: “Um no I’m still in Cali right now but I wanted to tell you I’mma be
landing I need you to pick me up. You still got my car right?”
Williams: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Yeah I need you to pick me up tomorrow morning and shit I land,
like, like, I think like 8:30 or some shit like that. 8 o’clock.”
Williams: “Alright so your, what time your flight land I/A so you’re taking a
red eye tonight?”
Baker: “Yeah, I’m, my flight tonight at 12 and...”
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Williams “So you should be leaving at like 7, you should be landing what like
730- 8?”
Baker: “Yeah like that’s what I’m saying like 730 8 o’clock Imma be at the
airport.”
Williams: “Alright do me a favor give me send me the exact time you be there
so I can make sure I’m like 20 minutes before the time you sending
me.”
Baker: “Alright when I, when I check, Imma check into my jawn tonight,
when I get to the airport Imma send you the itinerary and shit.”
Williams: “Alright make sure you do that cause you ain’t do that last time so
make sure you, remember to do that before you up in the air and
then you be like oh I forgot to send it.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Williams: “Like do it, like make sure you don’t forget to send it cause I need
that.”
Baker: “Imma look, Imma look at it just know it’s, hold on let me see if I can
probably send you it now for real, for real.”
Williams: “Yeah send it to me now.”
Baker: “Cause I aint, I’m not going back up to my man crib tonight, at all,
I don’t gotta I/A so that’s cool.”
Williams: “So I’m saying we got some good news, did we get some good news
over there.”
Baker: “I got some shit already coming over there right now, and my man.”
Williams: (Excitedly humming)
Baker: “He says, he still got um, he still gotta um, he, him and, him and my
other man about to come, come be down here and they about to
situate the other jawn, and they should have something to me
probably like, it should be something, we got something by the
beginning of next week and shit.”
Williams: “So it should be straight back, like everything worked out then.”
Baker: “Yeah everything exactly worked out.”
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Williams: “Alright that’s what’s up, what was I about to tell you, what was I
about to ask you, oh guess what I found my license.”
Baker: “You found it?”
Williams: “I found my wallet yup it was in one of my jackets bro. I went to go
put this jacket on I ain’t put on in months and it was in that jacket.”
Baker: “That’s the move then.”
Williams: “I just found it like yesterday, yup, I was like yo that’s why I called
you for real for real I’m like nigga I can leave now, where you at.”
Baker: (High pitched “ahhh”)
Williams: “Now I can leave now I have nothing to hold me back cause I got my
ID I would have, I would have been over there right now I swear to
god. I’m mad as shit that I’m even in bed right now, it aint even like
I’m having a good time over here I want to leave so bad, bro I’m mad
as shit, like super pissed that I’m here right now bro.”
Baker: “I/A”
Williams: “It’s so lame over here, just lame as shit.”
Baker: “See who, see who need some, look do this, see who need some gas,
the gas is gonna be there um, it don’t really matter cause the gas
not gonna be there till Friday and shit, but see if.”
Williams: “The gas?”
Baker: “Friday. If you get some mother fuckers that want some gas and tell
em Imma have some umm, niggas gonna have some ice cream cake
and shit and all that for like a stack, eleven hundred.”
Williams: “Really, but listen, you ain’t even have to, Imma tell you something
listen, I aint even tell you this, I ain’t even tell you this listen.”
Baker: “What?”
Williams: “With the bud shit, I got these Cambodians bouls bro, they got
hundreds of pounds of weed, hundreds of pounds hundreds of
pounds.”
Baker: “But it depend what the price on it I/A.”
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Williams: “But listen, the type shit you talking about, (yes please) I mean the
fact like them type numbers and they, and they fronting whatever,
they give me 50 pounds, 70 pounds, hundred they just give it to
me.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Williams: “You heard me?”
Baker: “Yeah alright, when I...”
Williams: “Yeah like so when you when you come home tomorrow we, we, we
run into, we pull up on em, yeah for sure.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Williams: “No doubt.”
Baker: “Yeah no shit”
Williams: “Yeah but be safe bro love you and I’ll see you in a little but don’t
forget to send me that information.”
Baker: “I just sent it, I just sent it.”
Williams: “Alright I got you.”
Baker: “Did you get it?”
Williams: “Let me see.”
Baker: “No you probably not gonna get it till you hang up.”
Williams: “Hold on, hold on yup I got it.”
Baker: “Alright it’s a bet then.”
Williams: “San Francisco to Philadelphia, yup 8:05 I got it.”
During the above voice call between Baker and a male, believed to be Will
Williams, Baker discussed the status of his trip to California and that he is
scheduled to return to the Philadelphia area on February 24, 2022. Based on
their training, knowledge, and experience, it is the affiants’ opinion that when
Baker told Williams that he had “shit already coming over there,” Baker was
referencing a shipment of drugs to the Philadelphia area. The conversation
continued which, in your affiants’ opinion, was related to upcoming package
shipments from California to the Philadelphia area.
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Delivery of packages on February 26, 2022
On February 26, 2022, at approximately 12:59PM, fixed surveillance
observed the United States Postal Service deliver a box to 51 Melrose Avenue,
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Approximately (1) one minute later, an unidentified
person opened the door where he/she took possession of the box and returned
inside the home.
A check through USPS records showed that a USPS Priority 2-day
14”x14”x14” package, weighing approximately 10.4lbs., was shipped on
February 22, 2022, and delivered on February 26, 2022, to Kamena Payton, 51
Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne. (See images below)
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At approximately 2:35PM, fixed surveillance observed Tyrone Baker
operating his Dodge Charger arrive and park near his residence located at 57
Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Baker exited the driver’s seat and a
male, identified as Daniel Allen exited the passenger seat. Allen entered 57
Melrose Avenue. Baker walked down the street and entered 51 Melrose Avenue.
Minutes later, Baker exited 51 Melrose Avenue carrying the cardboard box which
had been delivered earlier. Fixed surveillance was maintained on Baker as he
took the box inside his residence located at 57 Melrose Avenue.
A short time later, through review of the Instagram account of Daniel Allen
(“mr_loud_bags”), (open page) a video was posted. In the video, a box matching
the cardboard box was being opened. Inside the box was vacuum sealed bags of
marijuana. A screen shot of the video was captured which showed a picture of
the vacuum sealed bag of marijuana with caption “In my trap house countin’
guala, talkin’ to my scale.”
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Follow-up phone calls between Baker and his mother and Trivinia
Quintana, discussed where Baker could store the marijuana:
CALL #5828 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022, AT
6:04PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 610-818-5399, A PHONE
UTILIZED BY CHARLENE BAKER, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE UTILIZED
BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello?”
Charlene: “Tyrone where you at right now?”
Baker: “I’m at...I’m, I’m coming to Philly right now.”
Charlene: “Coming to Philly cause I’m trying to figure out whether you trying
whether you trying play a joke on me or not...”
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Baker: “What you talking about Mom?”
Charlene: “Cause if you don’t come and get this shit from from under this
table in this kitchen it’s gonna be a situation!”
CALL #5852 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022, AT
6:45PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE
UTILIZED BY TYRONE BAKER TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE UTILIZED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA
00:01:15 - 00:02:34
Quintana: “She told me that I needed to have the money in my I/A for the
background check and uh the FBI clearance.”
Baker: “Yeah and I know, I gotta bring this weed over there because I can’t
keep this weed in my mom’s crib.”
Quintana: “Why you gotta keep it over here? (Chuckling) You would think…”
Baker: “Weed.”
Quintana: “Why can’t you keep it there?”
Baker: “Because it smells.”
Quintana: “I could...(chuckles)”
Baker: “That’s about a I/A.”
Quintana: “Alright as long as it’s just weed.”
Baker: “Yeah, it’s just weed. I never could keep weed at my mom’s crib,
cause she be bitching about the smell and shit even though the
smell not even strong. You know I mean, but the every… all the other
stuff I can keep with me like she can’t smell that shit but the weed
I can’t because that shit be smelling and all that shit. That shit be
strong so…(burps), I gots all this weed so I’m about to bring that shit
to your crib and shit and keep it there you know what I mean?”
Quintana: “Put it in the basement.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
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Quintana: “Alright, because I don’t want none of you going over I/A I don’t
wanna hear no shit, oh I had this, I had that now I/A somewhere
where nobody can see or smell it.”
Baker: “Alright, that’s cool. I’mma just, yeah, um I’mma get a duffle bag um
and put it in there. I’m about to go to Wal-mart right now though
cause I forgot.”
Quintana: (Speaking over Baker) “No, you already got this one pack of diapers
for JuJu.”
00:04:29 – 00:06:41
Baker: “I don’t know when I come, I don’t know when I come. I might come
3 in the morning, 2, I don’t know I’m coming, but I’m gonna come
over there sometime tonight whatever.”
Quintana: “Alright, okay.”
Baker: “This is a lot I’m doing right now, I got weed going, the pills, the
whatsitname, I got a lot of shit, so everybody calling me and stuff
right now.”
Quintana: “Alright, I’m grabbing a couple more of them jawns. You got a little
bit of them pills or a lot of them?”
Baker: “You say what? No, I gotta get, I’mma bout to grab some more of
those too, I’m gonna some twenties and shit from my white boy in
Jersey and shit. He got a chick that gets them prescribed every
month and she needs somebody that can grab every month. I was
like bet I’ll grab them and do some of them and shit.”
Quintana: “Uh you still got some of the jawns I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, I still got some 15’s, I still got some 15’s right now too.”
Quintana: “Alright, well bring like four if you do. I just, I just, I didn’t know if
there was like you could just grab some and had a good amount.”
Baker: “Nah, I grab some, I grabbed like… I bet I grab 60’s and some 40’s,
some shit like that.”
Quintana: “Okay, okay, okay.”
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Baker: Yeah, I grabbed 60 and I grabbed them right before I went to LA and
then I’m about to grab some more 20’s tomorrow and shit, so I/A.
Next couple weeks I’m gonna have pills and shit. I’m try, I’m try, I
want some hustling I/A. I’m selling a lot of shit right now. I got the
weed, the pills, the shit I usually deal with, other pills, um a bunch
of shit.”
Quintana: “I don’t know.”
Baker: “I got all these bills I gotta pay. I got pay the salon bill, I’m backed
up on the salon rent. I gotta dish out to them two grand, oh I gotta
dish out like three grand on my birthday. On the first, I gotta pay
March rent and this month’s rent cause I ain’t ever paid this month’s
rent. I gotta, I gotta pay all that shit on my birthday. I’mma still pay
your rent and then I help my mom out and shit and I still got the
nail techs. I’mma bout to switch the nail techs to, to 50/50 and shit.”
Quintana: “Okay.”
Your affiants believe that the above voice calls showed that Baker could
not keep the marijuana at 51 Melrose Avenue because “it smells” and Quintana
agreed to let Baker keep the marijuana in the basement of 157 N. Edgewood
Street, Philadelphia as long as it’s “just weed.” Through your affiants’ training,
knowledge, and experience, Quintana’s comment about “just weed” was referring
to her knowledge that Baker sells additional controlled substances which she
did not want stored at her house. Baker responded that he was going to get a
duffle bag from Walmart to transport the marijuana over to Quintana’s. Later
review of GPS coordinates from Baker’s cellphone showed him at a nearby
Walmart and fixed surveillance captured Baker arriving at 157 N. Edgewood
Street at approximately 4:12AM on February 27, 2022. Baker opened the trunk
of his Dodge vehicle, retrieved several bags that were big enough to contain
marijuana, and entered 157 N. Edgewood Street carrying them.
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Through your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Baker received a package containing marijuana from California
which was addressed to 51 Melrose Avenue. After picking up the package, Baker
and Allen opened the box and were dividing the marijuana up into smaller
amounts for sale. Baker then brought the marijuana to 157 N. Edgewood Street,
Philadelphia.
In addition, during the voice call with Quintana, Baker talked about pills
and other stuff that he sells. Baker stated, “I’m selling a lot of shit right now. I
got the weed, the pills, the shit I usually deal with, other pills, um a bunch of
shit.” Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Baker’s statement confirmed that he sells pills, marijuana, and “shit
[he] usually deal[s] with” – believed to be referring to methamphetamine. Baker
also referred to obtaining pills from “white boy in Jersey,” which your affiants
believe refers to getting pills from Rob Smarra Jr.
SHIPMENTS TO JHAMIR WINANS
During the course of this investigation, Detectives identified packages from
California and unknown locations that were shipped to addresses associated
with Jhamir Winans. The court ordered wire interceptions and both physical and
electronic surveillance led to the identification of the following packages:
WINANS SHIPMENT #1 – FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE
DELIVERED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022
DELIVERY OF FEDEX PACKAGE AND WINANS MEET WITH QUARLES JR.
Based on the manner in which Jhamir Winans uses his phone (believed
to be FaceTime and other encrypted forms of communication not intercepted via
wiretap) your affiants attempted to identify the location(s) Winans was directing
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drug shipments to through the use of physical surveillance. In a review of
intercepted calls between Winans and his girlfriend, Zyaira Macklin, as well as
Winans and other unidentified individuals, the name “Snoog” was intercepted.
The context of these conversations was about the female “Snoog” causing
relationship issues between Winans and Macklin. Through an open-source
search of Instagram, your affiants located the Instagram account “snoogcarter”.
This account was followed by other Instagram accounts of individuals involved
in this investigation including “__ramborich,” the account controlled and utilized
by Richard Quarles Jr.
Through a review of the photos posted on the “snoogcarter” Instagram
account, your affiants identified the individual maintaining the account as Zakia
Clark-Carter. A search of PennDOT records showed that Clark-Carter’s listed
address was 1025 Riverside Drive, Philadelphia, PA. Your affiants recognized this
address as an apartment in a complex in which Winans had been followed
previously. A check of historical pings (GPS locations) associated with Winans
phone number 267-804-6023 beginning January 31, 2022, through February
15, 2022, showed that Winans frequented the immediate area of 1025 Riverside
Drive, Philadelphia, PA.
United States Postal Inspector Matt Tier checked United States Postal
Service records for historical shipments to 1025 Riverside Drive and determined
that at least four previous parcels fitting the criminal indicators of this drug
trafficking organization had been sent to the Northbrook Apartments, 1025
Riverside Drive up until September 2021. As previously stated, your affiants
know that August 2021 was the approximate month that this drug trafficking
organization ceased using the U.S. Postal Service to ship drugs, specifically
methamphetamine. These previous shipments include:
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Tracking No. Date Shipped Mailed From
9505516191241242557291 08-30-21 Downey, CA 9505516191241235554795 08-23-21 Downey, CA 9405511899561470923059 08-20-21 Lake Forest, CA 9405511899560066995456 06-05-21 Lake Forest, CA
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience and the information
described learned about Winans activity at 1025 Riverside Drive, your affiants
opine that each of the four above shipments contained methamphetamine
shipped from Ricky Evans to Jhamir Winans.
Based on the information detailed above, surveillance was established in
the area of 1025 Riverside Drive, Philadelphia on Monday, February 14, 2022.
CALL #407 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, AT
11:53AM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 215-399-8274, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE NUMBER USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
Winans: “Exactly, you and ya name (to someone in background) yo.”
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Will want them jawns? That bean?”
U/M: “You said what?”
Winans: “Do Will still want that bean? He gotta let me know now, cause I’m
about to go grab some but I’m paying for it. I’m, I’m, grabbing it from
my folks in Philly so I aint trying to grab it if he don’t want it no
more, da da da. Cause I gotta get, cause I got, a, a play right now
but my shit ain’t prolly don’t come till the morning. Like, cause it
was supposed to come earlier, but it’s probably gonna come till the
days, I/A cause tomorrow is the day it was supposed to come, but
now I think it is gonna come tomorrow. But just call him and see
did he want the jawns, but they gotta be guaranteed though.”
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U/M: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of the call transcribed above was related to the sale of drugs by
Jhamir Winans to a customer associated with the unknown male caller. More
specifically, Winans told the unknown caller that his shipment was not coming
until the following day and therefore if he was going to complete the drug deal
the unknown caller set up, Winans would need to buy additional product to sell
to the customer.
On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, surveillance was established around
1025 Riverside Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in anticipation of a package
delivery containing methamphetamine.
At approximately 9:10AM, through the use of fixed surveillance,
investigators observed a black Chevrolet Malibu, later identified as being
operated by Jhamir Winans, arrive at 1025 Riverside Drive, Philadelphia. The
vehicle backed into a parking space and Winans appeared to remain inside the
vehicle.
At approximately 9:31AM, through the use of fixed surveillance,
investigators observed a FedEx Ground delivery truck stop in front of the
apartment building. Seconds later, the FedEx driver exited the truck and placed
a cardboard box on the common steps leading to a series of apartments,
including Apartment 1025. The FedEx driver and truck then departed the area.
At approximately 9:39AM, through the use of fixed surveillance,
investigators observed a male, identified as Jhamir Winans, emerge from the
direction of the Chevrolet Malibu. Fixed surveillance was continued on Winans
as he walked to the steps and took possession of the cardboard box that was
sitting on the apartment steps and returned to his Chevrolet Malibu. Seconds
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later, Detective Vinter observed Winans operating a Chevrolet Malibu, black in
color, displaying Pennsylvania registration KLA-5444.
Surveillance was maintained on Winans as he traveled directly to 4236
Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This address is the known
primary residence of Richard Quarles Jr. Quarles Jr. had been in Clarksburg,
West Virginia since January 25, 2022, but had just returned to the Philadelphia
area during the early morning of February 15, 2022, just hours before Winans
was observed retrieving the FedEx package from 1025 Riverside Drive,
Philadelphia, PA the same morning.
After picking up the FedEx package on Riverside Drive, at approximately
10:12AM, Detective Wood observed Winans arrive at 4236 Pennsgrove Street.
Upon arrival, Winans parked his vehicle within proximity to 4236 Pennsgrove
and appeared to walk in the direction of the home. Due to the fear of surveillance
being compromised, Detective Wood was unable to see if Winans was carrying
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anything. At the same time, Sergeant Faherty observed a Dodge Charger, maroon
in color, displaying Pennsylvania registration LSA-3799 parked on the sidewalk
directly in front of 4236 Pennsgrove Street. An inquiry through the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation revealed the vehicle is listed on a 2021 Dodge
Charger to Johna Aliyah Need, 8249 Thouron Avenue, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19150. This Charger was recognized as the vehicle driven by
Richard Quarles Jr. at various points during this investigation.
At approximately 10:31AM, Detective Wood observed Jhamir Winans and
a person believed to be Richard Quarles Jr., exit the area of 4236 Penngrove
Street, and enter their respective vehicles. Approximately one (1) minute later,
both vehicles departed the area.
At approximately 12:00PM, through the use of pings associated with
Winans phone number 267-804-6023, Jhamir Winans was discovered to be in
the immediate area of his apartment located 181 N. Pottstown Pike, Exton,
Pennsylvania 19341. A short time later, Detective Fuentes observed Winans’
Chevrolet Malibu backed into a parking space.
Based on the above, your affiants opine that Jhamir Winans is using his
girlfriend’s 2014 black Chevrolet Malibu (KLA5444) to travel to and from these
drug transactions and that the meeting inside 4236 Pennsgrove Street,
Philadelphia was related to a drug transaction between Winans and Quarles Jr.
Through this investigation your affiants know that Quarles Jr. regularly meets
with Winans when he returns from drug related drug related West Virginia trips
trips where it is believed Quarles Jr. gives Winans his cut of the drug sale
proceeds and gets additional drug supply to sell in West Virginia and elsewhere.
For this reason, your affiants believe that Quarles Jr. stores evidence related to
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his drug trafficking within 4236 Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, PA to include
drug supply, drug paraphernalia, and proceeds of drug related activity4.
WINANS SHIPMENT #2 – UPS PACKAGE DELIVERED ON
OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Phone number 215-275-6435, was in communication with phone
numbers associated with Ricky Evans, including 424-567-1085, 424-646-1314,
and 424-744-2079. Information returned from AT&T for phone number 215-
275-6435 showed that the phone appeared to have been purchased from City
Wireless, a phone store located at 2224 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia and had
no subscriber name or address listed. However, the contact home email listed in
AT&T records showed an email address of jhamirwinans@gmail.com. Your
affiants know through their training, knowledge, and experience that those
involved in criminal activity often obtain phone numbers that do not require
identification or subscriber information to limit their connection to the phone
and their criminal activities. It was later learned that Jhamir Winans was the
user of phone number 215-275-6435, which is further supported by the
intercepted calls below.
4 It should be noted that based on information obtained during Winans Shipment #4, your affiants believe that Winans Shipment #1 was sent by an unidentified source of methamphetamine supply and not Ricky Evans. This opinion is based on information related to the package itself, including the Yorba Linda, CA return address and the shipment being made via FedEx Ground. Your affiants learned that this is identical to the location and shipping method used by the unidentified methamphetamine source from Winans Shipment #4. Further, from this investigation your affiants know that Ricky Evans prefers to send packages via UPS and has used a "Box City" store in North Hollywood, CA almost exclusively since he had a number of packages containing methamphetamine seized in December 2021.
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CALL #42 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 7:41
PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 215-275-6435, A PHONE NUMBER USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS, FROM 424-744-2079, A NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS.
Evans: “I’m right here at the joint right.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “Uhh basically its two- two sixty. I just have to send out like three
jawns cause I’m short on umm a hundred and sixty bucks.”
Winans: “Wait say that again?”
Evans: “I’m… Cause I’m, I’m sending more jawns out than just y’alls right
now. But I’m short right now.”
Winans: “Right.”
Evans: “The one that ya- yours that gotta go right, I ain’t got enough to
pay the full thing. Right now umm.”
Winans: “So what you… what you want me to ask him, like what you want
me to ask him?”
Evans: “Umm to send me one sixty right now so I can get it out for today. I
mean cause ain’t nothing gonna leave ‘til Monday so just letting
y’all know that in advance.”
Winans: “Uhh well I’mma…uhh so basically tell him send you one sixty I/A
basically.”
Evans: “Yeah because I wanna do the two day but it- it’d get there for
Wednesday.”
Winans: “No he wanted ground, no he wanted ground.”
Evans: “Oh he wanted ground? Oh, hey hey bro. Ah that’s fine then. I- I
got enough then.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “But it ain’t gonna be there ‘til Friday. So, that’s on them.”
Winans: “Alright. I’ll let him know”
Evans: “Alright.”
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the call transcribed above is referencing a shipment of drugs by Ricky Evans
to Jhamir Winans and Winans’ associates.
On Saturday, February 12, 2022, Ricky Evans and Jhamir Winans
exchanged text messages, believed to be related to the previously discussed drug
shipment from Call #42.
CALLS #90, 93, 95, 97, AND 102 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY
12, 2022, BETWEEN 3:58PM AND 4:19PM, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES
BETWEEN 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS, AND 424-
744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Winans (Call #90): “You sent it?”
Evans (Call #93): “Yea ma bad bro let me send you yo receipt”
Winans (Call #95): “Bet”
Evans (Call #97): “It was 75 bucks”
Evans (Call #102): “Tell. Bro send to My cash app”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
the above transcribed series of text messages is related to a shipment of drugs
by Evans to Winans. Specifically, Evans tells Winans that the package cost
$75.00 to ship and requested payment for shipping via cash app. Evans tells
Winans to “Tell. Bro” to send the money, which leads your affiants to believe that
Winans has another partner or partners in his illicit business activities involving
Ricky Evans.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that Jhamir Winans is the user of 215-275-6435 and that he used the number
to communicate with Ricky Evans, one of his California sources of
methamphetamine, to facilitate drug shipments from the Los Angeles area to the
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Philadelphia area. This opinion is based on the fact that the phone number 215-
275-6435 is subscribed to the email address JHAMIRWINANS@GMAIL.COM and
the similarity in the voice between the user of 215-275-6435 and Winans’ voice
intercepted on 38-2 E.D. 2022 using phone number 267-804-6023.
Further, the entirety of the communication between 215-275-6435 and
Ricky Evans’ number 424-744-2079 has been related to payment for or the
actual shipment of packages. Based on the facts and circumstances of this
investigation, your affiants believe that these shipments that Winans and Evans
discuss are all illicit in nature.
CALLS #268 AND 270 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022,
BETWEEN 2:25PM AND 2:32PM, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN
215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS, AND 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call 268): “Yo man’s got everything rite”
Winans (Call 270): “Yea”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that these final two text messages between Winans and Evans confirm that the
drugs sent as a result of a deal orchestrated by the two have arrived safely to the
location Evans had them sent to, marking the completion of this particular drug
transaction between Winans and Evans.
WINANS SHIPMENT #3 – FEDEX PACKAGE DELIVERED
ON FEBRUARY 21, 2022
On Monday, February 21, 2022, video surveillance from the Northbrook
Apartments captured a FedEx ground delivery truck. At approximately 10:35AM,
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a FedEx delivery truck stopped near the front porch of 1021-1026 Riverside
Avenue, Philadelphia. The delivery driver exited the vehicle. Shortly after, the
driver returned to the truck and departed the area.
At approximately 11:15AM, a black Chevrolet Malibu with heavy window
tint entered the parking lot and stopped directly in front of 1021-1026 Riverside
Avenue. The driver exited the vehicle, walked towards the porch, and then
immediately returned to the vehicle, departing the area.
GPS locations associated with Winans’ cellphone (215-275-6435) from
February 21, 2022, were reviewed. At 11:16AM, Winans’ cellphone was within
148 meters of GPS coordinates (40.094080,-74.986960) which was in the general
area of 1021-1026 Riverside Avenue. Continued review of the GPS coordinates
associated with Winans’ phone showed that after leaving the area of Riverside
Apartments, it traveled west along the PA Turnpike and at approximately
12:16AM, the phone was in the area of the Hanover Exton Square, 181 N.
Pottstown Pike, Exton, Winans’ apartment complex.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that this package delivery was consistent with a drug transaction, picked
up by Jhamir Winans. After receiving the package, it is the affiants’ opinion that
Winans returned to his apartment located at the Exton Hanover Square
apartment complex.
WINANS SHIPMENT #4 – FEDEX PACKAGE DELIVERED
AND SUBSEQUENTLY STOLEN ON MARCH 1, 2022
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022, surveillance officers followed Jhamir Winans,
operating the black Chevrolet Malibu (PA registration KLA5444) from 2651 N. 8th
Street, Philadelphia to the parking lot of the Northbrook Apartments, 1025
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Riverside Avenue, Philadelphia arriving at approximately 11:45AM. Surveillance
was maintained on Winans in the parking lot. Shortly after arriving, Winans
entered the main apartment door to 1021-1026 Riverside Avenue. Approximately
30 seconds after entering, Winans exited the apartment complex and returned
to his vehicle.
At 12:03PM, Winans placed an outgoing phone call to the Northbrook
Apartments and spoke with an individual named Jordan.
CALL #817 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022, AT 12:03PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 215-281-0444, A PHONE ASSOCIATED
WITH THE NORTHBROOK APARTMENT MANAGEMENT OFFICE, FROM 267-
804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/F: “Thank you for calling Northbrook Apartments and Townhomes.
Please note, all calls are recorded for quality assurance and training
purposes. If you know your party’s extension, you may enter it at
any time or select from one the following options: For leasing, press
one. Accounting, press two. If this is a maintenance emergency,
please press three. Thank you for calling Northbrook Apartments
and Townhomes. Please note, all calls are recorded for quality
assurance and training purposes. If you know your party’s
extension, you may enter it at any time or select from one the
following options: For leasing, press one. Accounting, press two. If
this is a maintenance emergency, please press three. (Ringing)
Thank you for calling Northbrook, this is Jordan. How can I help
you?”
Winans: “Yes, um I’m calling because um I was wondering if you could help
me. Um, I had a package sent, but the sender accidentally sent but
the sender accidentally sent it to the wrong address like he put the
wrong number on there. And I was, I went to the address he sent it
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to and knocked on the door and no one was answering. I was
wondering to see if like you guys could can like call them and just
ask them did they pick up the package or grab the package by by
accident.”
U/F: “Um, give me one minute. Who am I speaking to?”
Winans: “My name is Francis.”
U/F: “And your unit?”
Winans: “No, I don’t. That’s the, I don’t even live here anymore.”
U/F: “Okay.”
Winans: “And then, once I seen that it. I never I/A seen it at the address.
Then I seen that it said delivered. And he ended up telling me like
oh my. That was kind of, that was the wrong address.”
U/F: “So what unit was it sent to?”
Winans: “Um, 1026.”
U/F: “Give me one minute.” (Music playing and Pause in Conversation)
“Hello?”
Winans: “Yes.”
U/F: “Yes, I was not able to get an answer um, so there is not much else
that I can do for you. We do not get any packages here in the office,
um.”
Winans: “Okay. No, no I understand.”
U/F: “So.”
Winans: “Okay, it’s fine. Um, I guess I’ll just wait and just see if someone
answers the door. Thank you, I appreciate it.”
U/F: “Okay. You’re welcome.”
During the above call, Winans called the management office of the
Northbrook Apartments identifying himself as “Francis.” Winans inquired about
a package which was mistakenly addressed to 1026 Riverside Avenue. He had
tried knocking on the door, but no one answered. The management office
attempted to call the resident at 1026 Riverside Avenue, but received no answer.
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Surveillance units followed Winans as he subsequently left the apartment
complex parking lot.
Detective Laverty contacted the residents of 1026 Riverside Avenue about
the package, but they had not received any packages. Detective Daywalt reviewed
apartment surveillance video which showed FedEx delivering to the complex.
Shortly after Detective Daywalt observed a black female driving a white Toyota
sedan believed to be stealing packages from several of the porches, including the
porch of 1021-1026 Riverside Avenue, of the apartment complex.
During court ordered intercepted calls, it was learned that Winans left a
note on the door to 1026 Riverside Avenue. Winans later received a phone call
from the residents of 1026 Riverside Avenue which started a series of phone
calls.
CALL #2611 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022, AT 4:02PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-334-9272 TO 215-275-6435, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yeah hello.”
Winans: “Yeah, hello?”
U/M: “Yeah hello? Can you hear me?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Hey what’s up man. Uhh you sent the, you was the one that wrote
the note saying your package right?”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah. Uh, so I didn’t see no package. Umm I told the post office
guy and like, when we came, when I first moved in this jawn and I
was like, hey you know any other pa- if anything comes, just send
it back.”
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Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “Because they know I might be late there. Umm. I didn’t, I didn’t
see nothing. Uhh I, I always look when I come in. Umm there’s a
bunch of mail umm to other people, not, not sure if uhh…”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “I don’t know if umm I did talk to detectives and I told them I was
like hey I didn’t see nothing, I just got in my crib right now I/A.”
Winans: “Wait detectives? What you mean detective?”
U/M: “There was a detective that called said that, there was a packa-
that was a package missing. My girl told me that the detective
called and said that your like I guess your package you found a,
you found a claim or something like that on your package or
something?”
Winans: “No I ain’t found no claim I was reaching out cause, it was like a
I/A a regular I/A I mean she probably, I, uh, when I noticed it was
like sent to the wrong address, I knocked on the door there was
nobody there. So I’mma, I’mma just leave a note. Now I didn’t
never, I didn’t call no po cause they didn’t have I/A see the jawn
cause like I was I/A they must have just grabbed by accident and
they seen that like, I mean didn’t do no claim or talk no detectives
or none of that type stuff, ya I don’t I/A.”
U/M: “Okay, got you. Well, and I/A we just, you said I as like no, he
wasn’t here at the crib at the time but I was like if we do see it then
obviously you know what I mean we won’t touch it. I won- I won’t
touch nothing that’s not mine I/A.”
Winans: “Right, right right right.”
U/M: “But yeah I just wanted to let you know like hey like I don’t got it.
If I do see it I will give you a call and be like yo, ya, ya know your
jawn here.”
Winans: “Right.”
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U/M: “Umm, I did- I mean some people I’m not gon- ya know, so- I, its
been times where I was like my package has came and I be like yo
like and I look downstairs and I be like damn my shit not here but
it, ya know, my shit said it came.”
Winans: “Right, right.”
U/M: “It didn’t, ya know. Then of course, out of- for whatever reason, an
hour later shit pop up. So, I don’t know if somebody think, you
know, again, like, oh maybe this is mine or some shit and then
took it.”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “And then maybe not, so, I’ll check too. Cause sometimes people
you know take shit that’s not theirs and they be like oh shit that’s
not even my, my, my room, you know my- my address so let me
put it back outside. So, I’ll be on the lookout for that too but.”
Winans: “Alright yeah. And and even your girl, I/A see what that was up
cause yeah I never did no claim or nothing so I dunno where, like,
like, yeah I dunno where that was coming from.”
U/M: “Yeah that- yeah cause I was like, I was like alright I was like I
guess this must be damn near important than…”
Winans: “So you said they called her?”
U/M: “Yeah they called her. It was umm it was from uh, an, an, it had no
area code on it. And it was a blocked number and they called her
and they was like yeah, they was like I’m detective such and such
and uhh a person is looking for their package and they said that
you know you might have it. She was like well no I don’t have it.
And I- she was like alright, he was like, she was like I’m not even
home to you know see if the package was there… I’m at work. So,
he was like oh ok. He was like, yeah he was like but she was like if
I do see it, you know, I’m not touching it so its gonna just be here.”
Winans: “Right yeah yeah and that’s weird cause how would they get her
number I/A and another thing yeah I, I went to the leasing office to
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cause you know a-uhh, when the people that, ya’ll number would
be on file so I even reached out to the leasing office and asked
them like…”
U/M: “Right.”
Winans: “Can they give ya’ll a call. But yeah I didn’t… the detective and I/A
unless she probably thought it was the leasing office but you said
that she said detective.”
U/M: “Yeah. And I got a, I got a, I got a no caller ID number too but you
know what I mean if it ain’t no caller ID I’m not gonna answer the
jawn like if I don’t answer my phone. Like if it’s really that
important they’ll leave a voice message and then I’ll contact them
back so…”
Winans: “Right, right, right.”
U/M: “You know what I mean? But that’s why I saw ya- that’s when I
saw the note I was like okay I’m gon- let me hit him up let him
know like, I- I don’t got it. But if I do see it I’ll be on the lookout ya
know what I mean?”
Winans: “Alright I appreciate it. Alright yeah just, uh yeah just see about
that too cause I dunno that’s a little funny. Especially like I didn’t
do no, uhh, like claim I/A its not even nothing in there for a
detective or like…”
U/M: “To be yeah…”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “On some weird shit right.”
Winans: “Right right. So yeah just ask her about that but yeah umm I
appreciate it.”
U/M: “Yeah no problem, no problem. Uh what’s your name again?”
Winans: “Mike.”
U/M: “Mike. Okay. Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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CALL #2614 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022, AT 4:30 PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 714-770-6513 FROM 215-275-6435, A
PHONE USED JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “What’s up Mirr?”
Winans: “Yeah look I/A, right. If you think about this, cuz this happened to
me before. In this that same apartment. Look, like the same thing
happened right. And I put a claim in and I called up and was like
yeah I was out there and I was sitting on the step and my package
didn’t deliver it just I/A. Like, I was out there and I refreshed it and
it said deliver and I was sitting right there on the steps.
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “I did that, and the next day the package was out there on the step.”
U/M: “What the hell?”
Winans: “Yeah, like it’s crazy like so like I guess like with that package if you
you say something and they say something to the driver.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Oh shit, like damn. Like, you know what I’m sayin?”
U/M: “Yeah do it bro. Do it.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m about to”
U/M: “Yeah, do it.”
Winans: “I’m about to call up there right now.”
CALL #2616 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022, AT 4:33PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 800-463-3339, A PHONE BEING USED BY
FEDEX, FROM 215-275-6435, A PHONE BEING USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Recording: “Welcome to Fedex. This call maybe monitored or recorded for
quality insurance. (Speaking in Spanish). How can I help you?”
Winans: “Customer service.”
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Recording: “First, I need the reason for your call to find the help you need. So
please tell us what your calling about today.”
Winans: “Missing package.”
Recording: “Okay a missing package. Please tell me either your tracking
number or door tag number or say hold on a minute.”
(Ding in the background)
Winans: “99.”
Recording: (Speaking over Winans) “Please”
Winans: “5018072565.”
Recording: “Mm… I got 9501802560180256. Is that right?
Winans: “No.”
Recording: “Okay, let’s try this one more time. Please tell me your tracking or
door tag number.”
Winans: “995018072565”
Recording: “In a case of a package missing content, you’ll need to file a claim.
To file a claim online go to fedex.com\claim, click on start a claim
and follow the on-screen instructions to submit your claim. Again,
the website is fedex.com\claim. To hear that again say repeat that.
If you would like to make another request say main menu or if
you’re done for now feel free to hang up.”
CALL #2626 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 4:49PM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 267-334-9272, A PHONE BEING USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE TO 215-275-6435, A PHONE BEING USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
U/M: “Mike Laverty.”
Winans: “Lavery, Laverty.”
U/M: “Yeah, um... I don’t know uh... his number is, if... let me know
when your ready, I’ll give it to you.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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U/M: “Apparently it’s, it’s a Jersey, it’s a New Jersey number.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m ready.”
U/M: “Okay, um... 908.”
Winans: “908”
U/M: XXX
Winans: XXX
U/M: XXXX5
Winans: “Okay and, and where, and where you were referring, what was he
saying?”
U/M: “He, so I’m guessing, so I’m guessing yeah that name don’t ring no
bells?”
Winans: “Wait say that again.”
U/M: “No, I said the name rings no bells? Like his name rings no bells?
You never heard of him?”
Winans: “Who, Mike Laver, Mike the detective person?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Yeah, no. That’s what I’m saying, I don’t, that’s what I’m saying.”
U/M: “Cause he, cause apparently he called... apparently he called the
office uh but, but I know you said, you when you came, you came
here physically and you... did you call the office or did you talk
to...”
Winans: “What, the leasing office?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “I called the leasing office and it was a lady though, it wasn’t even
a guy and I basically I said, they said like yeah um... like think
back like um...”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “I send it to the wrong address.”
U/M: “Right.”
5 Detective Laverty’s phone number was relayed to Winans, but redacted from this Affidavit.
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Winans: “Um... you keep, I know like, like I said the lease office got the I/A
can you give them a call and basically ask them like did they pick
up a package, but like, like particular anybody would do that,
alright.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “and then one they like, they like see it uh bring it to the house ask
like I said you got a girlfriend, ask like I/A it’s like I/A that’s fine it
may be nothing. So I asked them basically to call and see so they
I/A it’s my package whatever. She said that uh she called, there
was no answer. That’s the only person I talked to.”
U/M: “Okay gotcha. Yeah cause he, cause he said he, like I said he
called, he called but then he call again. He called like, like from a
blocked number and some shit like that after...”
Winans: (Speaking over U/M) “Right.”
U/M: “Asked for, asked things like hey you know um... I’m looking um...
for this package did I/A mostly stuff like that and, and he didn’t
give like he said detective but he didn’t give no further information
so like did, the leasing was like huh, that’s weird like...”
Winans: (Speaking over U/M) “Right.”
U/M: “You know like, so I was like I don’t know. I’m like why is it...”
Winans: (Speaking over U/M) “Oh you said I/A gave her this number.”
U/M: “No, no, no she, he called her again. He just called her like fifteen
minutes ago and gave her, gave him... left a voice mail and gave
her this number...”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “Call back and I’m like why does he keep calling me like...”
Winans: “Right, right, right.”
U/M: “and that’s just it, it’s from Jersey like...”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “It’s like, he asked...”
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Winans: (Speaking over U/M) “Like I said, I didn’t even... honestly, honestly
I’m about to call the number on a three-way and act and see like
uh... and act like and just say I got the package and something
and see like what’s cause I/A now I’m kinda confused I/A and this
like a movie or something.”
U/M: “Yeah, like...”
Winans: “and it’s over a package that ain’t really nothing, like, so...that.”
U/M: “Right. I’m like what, like what is, cause I, cause I asked him, I was
like yo did, did you all see the package and the S/L lease center
said no we didn’t. I was like alright. I’m like okay so, and I’m still
look and I ain’t seen no package outside and then the...she said
that, she said that the guy saying that they that people that he
said um... he was looking at cameras, uh surveillance cameras on
the property and saying that they were stealing stuff but I asked, I
talked to the leasing people and they was like we don’t, we don’t,
we don’t have no contact with that person.”
Winans: “Right, right, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “I’m like what the fuck? It makes no sense like, I’m like, how would
he even know your package, you know what I’m saying like?”
Winans: “Right, yeah, I don’t even know. Let’s see I’m about to call the
number myself and um...”
U/M: “Cause I’mma, I’mma, it makes no, it’s weird, makes no sense.
That’s why, that’s why I give you the information you know what I
mean, cause like...”
Winans: “Yeah, no, I’m probably gonna call the number myself and kinda
see like, I don’t, yeah, I don’t know.”
U/M: “That shit don’t, that... it just don’t seem right. Like, why you.”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “That’s why I was like, do you know... like, I got his full name, I
was like, I was like what’s his full name and she told me and I was
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like okay. I’m like why she keep calling you than saying that. I’m
like...it’s like...I’m like he...”
Winans: “Is it, is it, is it alright if I act like I’m you and be like uh yeah you
called my uh you called my wife and...cause I wanna see what he’s
saying to you. Like, like...”
U/M: “Okay.”
Winans: “We kinda kicking like we say to her like...”
U/M: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
Winans: “We can see like, oh it’s a package and dah dah dah like, so I know
it would be my package but I wanna see like where he going.”
U/M: (Speaking over Winans) “Okay.”
Winans: “Right, right, right.”
U/M: “I gotcha yeah.”
Winans: “That’s cool.”
U/M: “Yeah that’s fine, that’s fine.”
Winans: Alright, I’m about to call the number. I’ll call you right right back.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Winans: “Alright”
CALL #2629 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 4:55 PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL FROM 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED JHAMIR
WINANS, TO A PHONE USED BY DETECTIVE LAVERTY
Detective Laverty: “Detective Laverty.”
Winans: “Yes, I’m calling because you called my wife about a package,
and I was trying to figure out what was going on.”
Detective Laverty: “Yes, um do you live at, um on Riverside?”
Winans: “Yes.”
Detective Laverty: “Okay, yeah so um I’m a detective. We are investigating a
group that is. It’s an organized group doing thefts of packages.
Basically, they are following around um FedEx and UPS
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trucks, and once they leave packages they just basically grab
them right off of the step.”
Winans: “Okay.”
Detective Laverty: “Um, and when I was in with the Leasing Office they gave me
I guess it was your fiancés number and said somebody had
called about”
CALL #2638 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 4:57 PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL FROM 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED JHAMIR
WINANS, TO A PHONE USED BY DETECTIVE MICHAEL LAVERTY
Detective Laverty: “Detective Laverty.”
Winans: “I apologize. I/A.”
Detective Laverty: “Oh no worries. Yeah, I couldn’t hear you.”
Winans: “I lost you, I lost you.”
Detective Laverty: “That’s okay.”
Winans: “I/A”
Detective Laverty: “So, um, so yeah I’m on a Task Force and like I said we’ve been
tracking this group. Um, they go around following UPS trucks,
Fedex trucks, um apartments”
CALL #2640 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 4:57 PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM FROM 714-770-6513 TO 215-275-6435,
A PHONE USED JHAMIR WINANS. THIS WAS A THREE-WAY CALL TO
DETECTIVE MICHAEL LAVERTY.
Detective Laverty: “Basically two minutes after the Fedex truck came, um
scooped up packages off several uh the porches of 10. I guess,
yeah the ten-hundred building, nine hundred, and the eight
hundred building.”
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U/M: “So they’re following, they’re following a truck and stealing
packages?”
Detective Laverty: “Correct, yeah.”
Winans: “So, and what. And so basically. So this like the. And you what
detective like, what like?”
Detective Laverty: “So I’m on a Task Force um that it’s basically a bunch of
different agencies, and we are working with UPS, Fedex, and
the Postal Service um it’s, it’s targeting Philadelphia area,
Montgomery County area, Delaware County, Bucks County,
um and the, the surrounding areas.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Detective Laverty: “So if you want to leave your information and the tracking
number of everything. Um, to be completely honest with you,
it’s very few and far between where we actually recover
anything because typically anything of value gets…”
U/M: “It’s a loss.”
Detective Laverty: “What’s that?”
U/M: “It’s already a loss. We appreciate your help though.”
Detective Laverty: “Okay, yeah no problem. If you have any other questions, feel
free to call me back.”
U/M: “Okay, thank you.”
Detective Laverty: “Alright, yup take care. Bye bye.”
Phone call with Detective Laverty disconnected
U/M: “Hey, Mirr?”
Winans: “Yeah, you hear me?”
U/M: “Yeah, I hear you. Who was that, a detective?”
Winans: “That was the detective. Basically. Alright look, he called me like he
called me and was like yeah detective called my wife and you know
first thing I’m thinking is like some whole other. But he was like,
yeah they got something going on like basically a group of people up
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there like. But that dude be going up there a lot though like because
that’s the good part of the city.”
U/M: “But look. But now, those mother fuckers are going to figure out
they just caught a ten pack of windows.”
Winans: “What, the the regular people?”
U/M: “Yeah, who. No, no, whoever stole it.”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “So we can’t, we can’t, we can’t, we can’t use that address no more.”
Winans: “I/A yeah no more I/A.”
U/M: “But here’s how, here’s how, here’s how this is. So that, that little
ten pack, that cost, that cost me a thousand dollar each. That’s ten
thousand”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “That’s ten thousand and then a little, a little shipping ain’t really
no thing. A hundred-fifty.”
Winans: “I/A”
U/M: “So that cost me ten-thousand-one-hundred and fifty dollars. You
and me, we gonna split that shit.”
Winans: “Yeah, no that’s, that’s, that’s cool. We can split that. Like I said,
this is something this was something that like we, we, was going to
happen I/A dealing with.”
U/M: “Yes sir.”
Winans: “So now we know, alright that’s what happened so now we know we
just can’t use there no more. That’s what it is. But yeah, he called
me. But this is how it came. He called me like yeah detective. Yo first
I’m thinking about oh shit like…”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “But if they was on that, they wouldn’t have called no body and they
would have just let it build up. They not gonna…”
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U/M: “And you know what’s cool, if they, if they do recover that shit, which
they probably won’t, they ain’t gonna open it. They I/A. It’s
happened before, I’ve seen it. But don’t, don’t trip.”
Winans: “Yeah, they not, they not even gonna open it. They ain’t got no right.
We, we the victim’s in this, you get what I’m saying?”
U/M: “Yes. Yes sir. Yeah, but uh going forward, we can’t use that address
no more bro.”
Winans: “Yeah yeah, no, no yeah for sure. I already, I uh I just sent you the
umm the Woodward jawn. 2375 Woodward. We can use that.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Winans: “But basically yeah they called like detective they got something
going on like with the cameras. They, they, people they just snatched
up everybody's packages. They got something goin on already with
the, with Doria apartment building but they already.”
U/M: “Them mother fuckers! I/A.”
Winans: “They already got an investigation goin on.”
U/M: “They came up on ten windows, but it's all good! Alright brother.”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah I got I/A. We gonna split if you just want to add it to uh
whatever I got goin on. I just, you know what I mean. Like I said,
that's, that's, that's fair and um…”
U/M: “One of the, one of the, one of the seventeen bands is going to turn
into like six bands. That's what it is. So take eleven off, damn! We
just split it.”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah so I'm gonna just, let me just see something. I'm gonna
just add it to my uh. Because I be keeping everything in my notes.
So that's so we'll do seven I/A.”
U/M: “Forget the seventeen bands. Take off one of the seventeen bands,
and instead of the seventeen bands it's gonna be six bands I believe.
Something like that. Well it's ten. Ten times a thousand, um we just
split. I'll, I'll, I'll send you the accounting of it.”
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Winans: “Yeah it's like, basically if it's ten it's like basically it's like five
thousand basically. It's like five thousand.”
U/M: “Yeah, something like that. I/A.”
Winans: “Alright, yeah that's cool. And I'm gonna um. Damn! I/A I was waitin
on. 'Cause I had a couple of plays setup, cuz I was gonna send that
with the other money so I might have to just get that out the way
now. Alright I/A.”
U/M: “Yeah, just send, just send whatever you can for now.”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah that kind of just. Alright, bet but its cool, its a hiccup,
it's gonna come with it. It don't even matter.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #2643 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 5:08PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-334-9272 FROM 215-275-6435, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Hello, yeah I- I talked to him. No that’s actually a real, uh, a real
uh detective. He umm basically he was saying yeah kinda thing he
told you. Like uhh…”
U/M: “Mmm.”
Winans: “Basically they have like uh, uh, its like a uh investigation going on
with a group of people, its like an organization of people like that’s
stealing packages. And basically like they already brought…I guess
since they already like brought it to the leasing office’s attention but
you know probably not gonna likely say too much ‘cause they can’t
I/A an investigation going on.”
U/M: “Yeah yeah.”
Winans: “So uh, so yeah he’d basically like yeah umm when the leasing-
when you called the leasing office like they basically they straight,
they told us, they notified us from as soon as you called them and
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told them like oh alright so like they I/A another package is missing
they already came they said some more packages.”
U/M: “Gotcha gotcha.”
Winans: “And they… I guess they checked the cameras up there and seen
like the people like five on the truck and all that type stuff so yeah.”
U/M: “Oh ok, gotcha.”
Winans: “So it was, it was like really a legit like…”
U/M: “Legit jawn ok.”
Winans: “Right, right, right. Uh.”
U/M: “But are you… it was just you know just out of the blue and shit so
I was like I/A”
Winans: “Yeah I was I/A too that’s why I’m like ‘cause it was like uh they said
that a place like the called the I/A ‘cause at Omni I didn’t talk to
anyone but like the leasing office but yeah the leasing office
contacted the gentlemen then that’s I/A that definitely explained it.”
U/M: “Gotchu. ‘Cause you, ‘cause you, you, you physically left a note or
was that…”
Winans: “Yeah I wrote that myself like I wrote, ‘cause once, once they said
‘cause I’m like alright first I knocked on the door and then nobody
answered. So I’m like damn but I had somewhere to be. I- I’m usually
gonna just wait in the house until like I’mma ard, I’mma just wait,
so I’mma ard, uh matter of fact let me just call the leasing office and
ask like ‘cause I know they wasn’t going to give me your number so
I’m like.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “I/A can, can y’all call him and talk and she’s like alright that’s fine
so she called y’all or whatever and said, and then, uh yeah uh I
guess I don’t know who she called like whoever number on file and
they didn’t answer.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
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Winans: “And uh so then I just I’m like dang I got somewhere to get let me
just leave a note on there so I tell him to call me.”
U/M: “Ok I get it, I got you. But…”
Winans: “Yeah I appreciate it, I definitely appreciate it a lot.”
U/M: “Yeah yeah, no, no problem man. I mean besides here it was an... it
was like a couple months ago it was a girl that used to live here and
her grandmom gave her a package.”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “So we called the girl and we, we, we uh, you know, we uh we was
like hey your grandmom left this for us (laughs) uhh thinking you
still lived here. So she came by, she lived in Bristol, she came by and
picked it up. So I’m all for it. I don’t, I don’t take what’s not mine.”
Winans: “Right, right I respect that. That’s respect I/A that’s honorable that’s
a good person. So...”
U/M: “Yeah. No, no problem. But um, hopefully uh, hopefully your
package do come in. If it do, again, I will give you a call. Uh, but you
know now if what they saying is true umm...”
Winans: “Yeah, and, and, and.”
U/M: “You know I’m gonna be on the lookout for my shit.”
Winans: “Yeah I about to say that too. Yeah now since you know that I, if I
was you I just kind of like yeah really be on point if you gotta get
something sent there.”
U/M: “Yeah that’s true. That’s true. So. But. Alright man uh have a good
one bro.”
Winans: “Alright you too, thank you.”
U/M: “Yeah no problem.”
During the above voice calls, Winans provided the FedEx tracking number
of the package: 9950-1807-2565. A check through FedEx tracking records
showed that the 14”x9”x9” package, weighing 13lbs, was shipped from Yorba
Linda, CA on February 24, 2022, and delivered on March 1, 2022, at 10:44AM.
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that a package containing ten (10) pounds of methamphetamine (“windows”)
destined to 1026 Riverside Drive, which was paid for by Jhamir Winans, was
stolen after being dropped off by FedEx before Winans could retrieve it. During
the calls, Winans speaks to an unknown male, who is believed to be a new or
different California source of methamphetamine supply, who referred to the
contents of the box as a “ten pack of windows,” which your affiants opine is slang
for methamphetamine. The unknown male also stated that the loss of the box is
a $10,000 loss, his cost, plus an extra $150 shipping. The unknown male told
Winans that they will split the loss and send a new package to a different
address. As the two discuss financing the loss, Winans referenced his “notes,”
inferring that he keeps records related to his drug trafficking. The two agree to
use the address “2375 Woodward,” a reference to 2375 Woodward Street,
Philadelphia. Your affiants know from this investigation that 2375 Woodward
Street, Apartment 604, is the current address listed on Zyaira Macklin’s (Winans’
girlfriend) PA driver’s license. This leads your affiants to conclude that a
replacement package containing methamphetamine will be sent to Winans at
that address.
Historical FedEx Ground Shipment records
Based on the repeated use of FedEx Ground shipments by Winans and
Winans’ looking for a FedEx package addressed to “Francis,” FedEx Ground
records were requested for deliveries, including to 1025 and 1026 Riverside
Drive, Philadelphia from January 1, 2021, through March of 2022. The results,
received on March 9, 2022, showed fourteen (14) packages delivered between
December 17, 2021, and March 1, 2022, which were addressed to “Francis Mire,”
“Fracis Mire,” or “Francine Mire,” most with a return address of 18032 Lemon
Drive, Yorba Linda, CA 92886.
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Delivery Tracking Recipient Package Date Number Shipping Address Name / Address Weight
12/22/2021 995018070356 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
11.5
12/27/2021 995018070540 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
5.1
12/29/2021 995018070600 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
2
1/4/2022 995018070871 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
6.1
1/10/2022 995018071135 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
6.6
1/11/2022 995018071146 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
11.4
1/14/2022 288582406327 751 S Weir Canyon Rd
Ste 157 Anaheim Hills CA
Francis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
11.3
1/19/2022 995018071433 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
2
1/30/2022 995018071617 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr
17.4
2/12/2022 995018072040 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francine Mire 1026 Riverside Dr
11.1
2/15/2022 9950180720836 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francine Mire 1026 Riverside Dr
4.5
2/21/2022 9950180722787 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francine Mire 1026 Riverside Dr
3.9
2/24/2022 995018072407 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Francine Mire 1026 Riverside Dr
4
3/1/2022 9950180725658 18032 Lemon Dr Yorba Linda CA
Fracis Mire 1026 Riverside Dr
12.7
Total Package Weight (pounds) 109.6
6 This package was the FedEx Ground package delivered on February 15, 2022, described in Winans Shipment #1. 7 This package was the FedEx Ground package delivered on February 21, 2022, described in Winans Shipment #3. 8 This package was the FedEx Ground packaged delivered on March 1, 2022, but subsequently stolen, described in Winans Shipment #4.
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience; the information
learned about Winans’ activity at Riverside Drive; the stolen FedEx package
being sent from Yorba Linda; and Winans identifying the addressee on the stolen
FedEx package as “Francis,” which matches the names on the above fourteen
(14) packages, your affiants opine that each of these shipments contained
methamphetamine shipped from the unknown methamphetamine source (714-
770-6513) in the Yorba Linda area of California to Jhamir Winans.
WINANS SHIPMENT #5 – UPS PACKAGE SHIPPED TO
NEW JERSEY WITH EXPECTED DELIVERY ON MARCH
15, 2022
On Monday, March 7, 2022, Winans, using phone number 215-275-6435,
communicated with Evans, 424-223-3050, regarding another order, which
appears to be another order, similar to Winans Shipment #2, middled by Winans,
shipped by Evans, and delivered to a criminal associate of Winans.
CALLS #3928, 3931, 3933, 3935, 3937, 3939, 3941, 3943, 3945, 3947,
3949, 3951, 3953, 3955, 3971, 3973, 3975, 3977, 3979, 3981, 3983, 3988,
3990, 3992, 3994, 4014, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4022, 4024, 4026, 4028, 4030,
4032, 4034, 4136, 4142, 4144, 4146, 4148, 4150, 4152, AND 4154 ON
DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 BETWEEEN MARCH 7, 2022 AND MARCH 8, 2022
BETWEEN 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, AND 215-275-
6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans (Call #3928): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #3931): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #3933): “Wat up”
Winans (Call #3935): “What’s the number on the jawns ?”
Evans (Call #3937): “1250”
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Winans (Call #3939): “Ard my man bouta cash app you 3k for 2 and just send
me the 500”
Winans (Call #3941): “What’s the cash app ?”
Evans (Call #3943): “$Swaggk60 $bolivar55”
Evans (Call #3945): “$dolcce”
Evans (Call #3947): “U sending it now”
Winans (Call #3949): “He said he sent it”
Winans (Call #3951): “He sending it all to yours”
Evans (Call #3953): “Alright”
Evans (Call #3955): “I didn’t get nothing”
Evans (Call #3971): “U sure he sent it”
Winans (Call #3973): “He said can he send 15 on cash app & 15 on Zelle”
Winans (Call #3975): “?”
Evans (Call #3977): “Yea I ain’t got the Zell rite now let me see who does real
quick”
Winans (Call #3979): “Ard”
Evans (Call #3981): “3235906091”
Evans (Call #3983): “Duane Mcbroom is the name”
Evans (Call #3988): “Send the cash to my jawn”
Winans (Call #3990): “Rd”
Winans (Call #3992): “He said he gonna send the Zelle in a hour”
Evans (Call #3994): “Bet”
Winans (Call #4014): “He said 1500 went thru on Zelle”
Winans (Call #4016): “But request the other 1500 on cash app from
$braidsbyci1”
Evans (Call #4018): “Tell him I requested it from my girl”
Evans (Call #4020): “Shit”
Evans (Call #4022): “$dolcce”
Winans (Call #4024): “He saying cash app on bs”
Evans (Call #4026): “Yea I don’t know why it don’t go threw bro”
Winans (Call #4028): “He said he can Zelle again in the Am”
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Evans (Call #4030): “Yea it on some nut shit on My end too”
Evans (Call #4032): “Bet bro”
Winans (Call #4034): “Ard”
Winans (Call #4136): “Where to send this other Zelle ?”
Evans (Call #4142): “Same jawn”
Winans (Call #4144): “He Sent It”
Winans (Call #4146): “3 Day It”
Evans (Call #4148): “Bet”
Winans (Call #4150): “$dmmirr this my jawn”
Evans (Call #4152): “Already got you locked in”
Winans (Call #4154): “Bet”
Your affiants know that Zelle is a digital payment platform (person-to-
person) owned by banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase,
PNC Bank, US Bank, and Wells Fargo. The service allows individuals to
electronically transfer money from their bank account to another registered
user’s bank account using a mobile device.
While discussing payment through Zelle, Evans reached out to phone
number 323-590-6091, a phone number associated with Duane Broom, and
asked to use Broom’s Zelle account. Follow-up text messages were intercepted
which confirmed that Broom received the payment, believed by your affiants to
be related to the Winans/Evans drug deal.
CALLS #1620, 1628, AND 1635 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 8,
2022 BETWEEN 12:21AM AND 12:25AM A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS
BETWEEN 323-590-6091, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH DUANE BROOM,
AND 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #1620): "Do u got it on yo Zell yet"
U/M (Call #1628): "Yea"
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Evans (Call #1635): "Alright"
Based on the above text message exchange and earlier conversations
between Evans and Winans, it is your affiants’ opinion that Evans received
payment for the drug shipment into the Zelle account of 323-590-6091, believed
to be associated with Duane Broom.
CALLS #4344, 4348, 4360, 4364, 4366, 4368, 1985 (38-9 E.D. 2022), 4418,
AND 4422 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 8, 2022 BETWEEN
7:45PM AND 10:19PM BETWEEN 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS, AND 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Call #4344
Evans: “What time?”
Winans: “No, naw, no.”
Evans: “Alright uh. I/A”
Winans: “Yeah, no, no but, oh yeah I got the four-eighty. But uh, oh yeah
look, you hear me? Alright so you I/A eighty. You trying uh. What
the fuck? Oh for shipping, uh what you want me to Cash App you
the shipping? Or Cash App you know what I’m saying the shipping?”
Evans: “Oh yeah, you can Cash App me the shipping uh. Because I haven’t
got.”
Winans: “No, that’s for him it ain’t mine I/A,”
Evans: “No, I ain’t gonna cap. Tell cuz, but he say he want three day, huh?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
Evans: “So tell cuz send uh at least like a hundred and twenty like for, like
on the lightest tip just send like a hundred and twenty for sure. It
shouldn’t be no more than, it shouldn’t be no more than that
because it’s only two and on top of that it’s a three-day not a two-
day, you get what I’m saying?”
Winans: “Alright.”
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Evans: “He don’t want to do two-day, are you sure he don’t want to do two-
day?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
Evans: “It might be cheaper, and I already been doing two-day and
everything been going through so, you know?”
Winans: “Yeah, I don’t, yeah I don’t know. I'mma ask him, but I don't think...”
Evans: “Just ask cuz. Just tell him like he, he’s about to give out one-twenty
anyway. If it’s eligible for two-day, for two-day uh shipping, do you
want to two-day ship it because I could probably have that, make
that possible right now.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright, but I getting um I alright got the money. I just picked up
the money right now cuz I’m about to go uh, I’m about to go meet
up with my folks. He should be here by later on tonight. He said he
was picking up and moving a shipment right now, so I’m waiting on
cuz to come back uh from where he at.”
Winans: “Alright. I/A.”
Evans: “So I should be sending everything out top, top of the morning
tomorrow.”
Winans: “Yo, alright listen another two things. Yo, send my eighty yo. You
always tryin scheme.”
Evans: “You said I’m tryin to scheme?”
Winans: “Yeah, I/A”
Evans: “No, nigger I had to send it through the Cash App I/A to take it off.
I have to send it through the Cash App to take it off.”
Winans: “You got to send it through Cash App to take it off?”
Evans: “I/A. Yo, yo damn!”
Winans: “Oh you sayin like. Oh, that ain’t got nothing to do with me. I can
tell him that though. Like you gotta send an extra whatever cuz I/A”
Evans: “Alright, uh well se, well have him send me an extra eighty and then
uh yeah just tell cuz to”
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Winans: “Ship all that I/A yeah yeah well I/A to me”
Evans: “Yeah that’s. Just tell cuz send two-hundred in total then, fuck it.
Just tell cuz send two-hundred I/A”
Winans: “Listen, another thing, yo what the, what the um I/A (S/L “Deps”)
goin for out there? Cuz those jawns cheap as shit out here, like six-
hundred / seven-hundred/eight-hundred. All that type of shit. What
they goin for out there?”
Evans: “I got. Hey bro look, I ain’t gonna cap to you. I got about like twenty
uh um I ain’t gonna say deps cuz they not deps. Um, my nigger just
told me that he could give it to me for like I think three-eighty or
four-hundred even I believe if I’m not mistaken.”
Winans: “What they look like? What is they? If they ain’t deps, what is they?”
Evans: “Um, he said no they deps, but they um like a high-quality-deps.
Like he like he said like it’s some good, it’s some good, good deps.
He showed me a picture of it. I got a picture, but he only showed me
a picture of the jar. But he like, if you want to meet up, you I can
meet up with you and you can buy like two or three to see how it is.
I/A I’m like, that’s cool, but he wanted me to buy something on the
spot if I meet up with cuz. Which is cool for me, 'cause I want to buy
it to see what it do anyway in my possession for that low for that
three-eighty, that’s cool for me. For uh”
Winans: “Yeah, I”
Evans: “Like that, and then I can sell it for six-hundred really on some shit
like that.”
Winans: “Right.”
Evans: “But, I don’t know, it just depend on what ya’ll like like what ya’ll
preference is. I don’t know what your textures of weed that you want
are. You know what I mean?”
Winans: “It don’t even matter, that shit gonna sell.”
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Evans: “Yeah, um I could get in contact with the nigger right now and see
what’s up. If you want to send me like uh uh. If you want to send
me twelve-hundred bucks, cuz I’ll buy, I’ll buy one and then I’m…”
Winans: “No, I want to see what it look like first. Cuz I don’t, you know that
shit that’s a whole different. You know that shit gotta be smell, you
know that shit be I/A. You know, mother fuckers be complaining,
you know that’s a picky game. That’s shits a picky.”
Evans: “Yeah bro, that’s why I don’t even like that game. That’s why I swear
to God, I don’t even play with nigger’s like, I just tell the niggers I
don’t sell it, cuz that that right there is a tricky ass game right there
to uh make a buck or two. But you could make a buck or two
though. It’s just like, it’s just too picky.”
Winans: “Yeah, no for sure.”
Evans: “It’s too picky for me though, that shit like I/A That shit really.”
Winans: “Yeah, try to see. Try to see if you can send a video of it to my like to
my phone. And I’ll just call you, cuz I know you gotta I/A. And then
I’ll just call you and let you know if I like it. He, he got an iPhone.
And then, I’ll just call you and see if I like it or not, and then we’ll go
from there.”
Evans: “Yeah, he probably don’t got iPhone, but I’m gonna tell phone cuz
that the best solution is Whats App right now. Cuz Whats App come
out clearer.”
Winans: “Yeah, alright, yeah no that’s cool. Yo that’s cool too.”
Evans: “Yeah, I’ll do that right now for you. I’m about to call cuz and see see
what’s up. Just answer your phone when I call you back. Alright
bro”
Winans: “Alright.”
Call #4348
Winans: “Hello?”
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Evans: “Hey bro, um the nigger just uh, the nigger just shipped the two-
hundred dollars, but the shit keeps selling. So um, tell cuz to send
it to um. I gonna have him send it to um my sister, my sister in law
bro. Um, so then I gonna have her Cash App me, and then I’ll just
Cash App you back but…”
Winans: “Alright, so what you I/A. What you wanna try Cash App?”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah well he gonna have to send again on Cash App. He tried
to send it to mines just now, but it ain’t gonna ever work from, from
his to mine. I don’t know why, I/A.”
Winans: “Alright, so. Alright text me uh hers.”
Evans: “Yeah, I’m about to right now. I’m uh, I’m doin right now.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Evans (Call #4360): “$zedraslaton”
Evans (Call #4364): “$kingziacool”
Evans (Call #4366): “Send it to that one it should go threw”
Winans (Call #4368): “He said it went thru on the other jawn”
CALL #1985
(child screaming in the background)
Winans: “Yo.”
Evans: “Yo, what it do bro?”
Winans: “Alright two things, he said one, do you got it.”
(child screaming and dog barking in background)
Winans: “He sent it to the second one you sent me not I/A the jawn you
uhh”
Evans: “Yeah I know I/A. Hold on, hold on (yells something) I/A.”
(dog barking and child screaming, not able to hear the conversation
between Evans and Winans)
U/child: “Here.”
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Evans: S/L “Hey Zedra, hey Zedra, hey Zedra, hey Zedra can you send me
that $200 real quick, fast?”
U/F: “Oh, I see where eating here.”
Evans: “I know you keep forgetting it, I know that's why I'm like man my
boy just told me. He like bro it went through and I'm like man I/A.
The $200 dollar came from, I know I never told her.”
U/M: “We looked up the instagram I/A.”
Evans: “I never told her bro.”
U/F: “You need a place I/A.”
Winans: “Alright, alright and then yo hear me.”
Evans: “Yeah, Hold on, hold on, hold on let me get into the quiet room.
Hey Sophie.”
Sophie: “Yeah.”
Evans: “You said what number.”
Winans: “I said another thing though, he's like alright I have the $120 for
shipping, $80 for I/A cause they took it out it's like damn I/A
didn't even take out no money I/A.”
Evans: “Because no, because the nigga who had the Zelle, the nigga who
I/A so I already knew you all probably was gonna come with that
question anyway cause I felt like that before the nigga just told me
he had to cash app me because he couldn't take it up cause he
was at work.”
Winans: “Oh oh, so basically he has to send it to you.”
Evans: “So I had to I/A cash app.”
Winans: “Oh oh wow yeah, I didn't know cause he said, he's like damn I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah bro that's why I told you like I wasn't trying to I/A . I'm
like I/A what nigga come on bro, over $80 bucks, nigga come on.”
Winans: “Nah, nah, nah, no it wasn't, I'm just saying a week ago he like we
all broke I/A cause he asked me for $200, yeah I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah, nah but you know I'm not that way bro, but you know I'm
not even I/A over no $80 dollars. Come on cuz.”
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Winans: “I'm like, I said that's like, cause he's not like $200 for what, I'm
like he said $120 for shipping and $80 for the Zelle I/A he said I do
Zelle bro like I got business, like I, like I got businesses and shit.”
Evans: “Nah, nah we are no bro because I didn't pick...”
Winans: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Up from Zelle before and they didn't charge me not a dollar that
day...”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah, no, that's what he said and I'm like yeah so...”
Evans: “In fact I/A but the fact that the nigga had to cash app me know I
gotta go you feel me but that's why I got the money I/A at five
o'clock and not at two o'clock or one o'clock you hear me.”
Winans: “Right, right, right that was his I/A, but I'm like have him call ask
you and he's alright and just let me know but then but he said like
but then he had a fit like I said he sent in I/A but alright.”
Evans: “I/A like nah, like that's why I'm like nah I/A.”
Winans: “Right now, I already know but uh you got the address already
right? He asked me I/A send it out.”
Evans: “Nah, nah, I'm sending out tomorrow in the morning.”
Winans: “And you got the address already right, the same one from last
time.”
Evans: “Um... I believe you, I believe you sent it to me. No?”
Winans: “Before not, not, not, not this couple days. Like not today. I, I sent
it to you last time we got some.”
Evans: “Oh yeah, but I got a new phone I/A. So yeah, you gotta send it to
me. Send it to me right now so I can already have it.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
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Evans (Call #4418): “Alright send me Addy so I could get out the way”
Winans (Call #4422): “416 Evans court mount laurel New Jersey 08054”
Based on the above communciations between Winans and Evans, it is your
affiants’ opinion that Winans and Evans were negotiating a drug transaction
where Winans appeared to be negotiating the purchase for an associate of his.
Evans told Winans to have “him” send the CashApp and Winans responded that
“he said it went thru,” which makes your affiants believe that Winans’ associate
sent the CashApp payment. Winans then sent Evans the shipping address in
Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
CALLS #4685, 4743, 4765, 4767, AND 2315 (38-9 E.D. 2022) ON DOCKET
38-7 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 10, 2022 BETWEEN 11:05AM AND 3:22PM
BETWEEN 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, AND 215-275-
6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans (Call #4685): “When you sending it out ?”
Evans (Call #4743): “Now bro on my way to jawn now imma send u the
receipt in a min bro”
Evans (Call #4765): “Ways the name”
Evans (Call #4767): “I put Allen cray”
Evans (Call #2315):
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Based on the above communications between Evans and Winans, it is your
affiants’ opinion that this was a drug transaction. Winans placed an order for
drugs, believed to be methamphetamine, and after receiving payment, Evans
sent a 12”x10”x10” package via UPS to a New Jersey address with an anticipated
delivery date of Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
SHIPMENTS TO JOSHUA QUILES
During the course of this investigation, Detectives identified packages from
California that were shipped to addresses associated with Joshua Quiles. The
court ordered wire interceptions and both physical and electronic surveillance
led to the identification of the following packages:
QUILES SHIPMENT #1 – 3.22LBS PACKAGE DELIVERED
ON FEBRUARY 19, 2022
EVANS’ COMMUNICATIONS WITH PHONE NUMBERS 215-436-8669 AND
610-934-2154, PHONE NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH JOSHUA QUILES
CALL #4 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 3:53PM,
AN OUTGOING TEXT TO 215-436-8669, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES
AKA CHASE BENJII, FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
Evans: “U sent it any bread yet bro”
The above outgoing text message from Evans to Philadelphia area-code
based phone number 215-436-8669 asked whether any “bread” was sent. Your
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affiants know “bread” to be a common slang term for money and therefore opine
that Evans is asking if the user of phone number 215-436-8669 sent the money.
Several minutes later, Evans received an incoming call from an unknown
male, possibly named Manual “Manny” Reveles. During the call, Evans
mentioned trying to get “shit situated with Chase.” Evans also complained about
“Chase” taking a long time to respond to text messages. The voice call was as
follows:
CALL #8 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 3:59 PM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 424-559-9922, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH
MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
U/M: “I/A”
Evans: “Yo Manny what up?”
U/M: “I/A asking what’s up.”
Evans: “Yeah I know. I’m… I’m not trying to have you stall too long cuz. I’d
rather you just come right now for this four until I get this shit
situated with Chase. Cause I still… he takes fuckin’ forever to
respond to one text message it takes so fucking long. I’m… I don’t
even get him, man don’t answer the fucking phone.”
U/M: “Want me to take the four then?”
Evans: “Yeah take me four right now until I see something appear that
he…he got, he got the money for three shit.”
U/M: “It was supposed to be three?”
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Evans: “Yeah I guess it’s supposed to be three but, it, this nigga still uhh I
still ain’t see nothing pop up on nobody CashApp9.”
U/M: “Alright. Uh fuck it. I’m gonna just take the four cause I can pay
you this I/A then I’d make him wait for the rest, you know?”
Evans: “Yeah that’s what I was about to tell you anyway.”
U/M: “Yeah that way I just pay him for something and he’ll be off my
ass.”
Evans: “Yeah, nah that’s cool you can still come down grab the bread right
now uhh for that shit. I’m about to go stop at Staples, then go grab
me a little bite to eat.”
U/M: “Alright. So I’m gonna take off like in fifteen.”
Evans: “Yeah that’s cool, that’s cool.”
U/M: “Alright, alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
This series of calls leads your affiants to suspect that phone number 215-
436-8699 is a number utilized by Joshua “Chase Benjii” Quiles.
A short time later, Evans attempted to call 215-436-8669 and then
followed up with multiple text messages which were eventually answered.
9 Your affiants know through their training, knowledge, and experience that CashApp is a payment application that allows the sending and receiving of money. Users can create an account that allows for direct peer-to-peer payment via mobile devices. When creating an account, users create a unique username or $cashtag and a unique payment URL can be used https://cash.app/$cashtag. Funds can be added to or transferred from the users CashApp account by linking the account to an existing bank account or debit card. Users can be found to send or request payments by searching for a username, phone number, or email address tied to the CashApp account. When a payment is sent to another CashApp account, a note can be added to indicate what the payment is for. CashApp also allows users to receive a Visa debit card called a Cash Card. This Cash Card can be used at retail locations and at ATMs.
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CALLS #15, 16, 18, 23, 25, AND 27 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 11, 2022, BETWEEN 4:51 PM AND 6:30 PM, AN ATTEMPTED
VOICE CALL FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN 215-
436-8699, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND
424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #15): Attempted outgoing call to 215-436-8699
Evans (Call #16): “Yo.”
Evans (Call #18): “Bro.”
215-436-8699 (Call #23): “Naw wasn’t letting me deposit I’mma have to go
in the bank when they open”
215-436-8699 (Call #25): “I dint wanna send it till Monday this way
anyway”
Evans (Call #27): “Alright bet bro don’t trip I got u.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the brief text message exchange between Evans and the user of Philadelphia
area-code based phone number 215-436-8699 is related to a shipment of illegal
drugs by Evans to the user of 215-436-8699. In the exchange, the user of 215-
436-8699 seemingly answered Evans earlier text message about sending money
(Call #4) when he/she says he/she could not make a deposit and will go to the
bank when it opens. The user of 215-436-8699 followed up by saying he/she
didn’t want “it” sent until Monday. Your affiants opine, “it” was a reference to the
illegal drugs sold and shipped by Evans.
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CALL #68 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 8:36
PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 213-245-9495, A NUMBER USED BY AN
UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE ZEDRA SLATON, BY 424-744-2079,
A NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans: (Singing) “I/A”
U/F: “Hello?”
Evans: “I/A”
U/F: “Ricky, what’s the deal?”
Evans: “What’s the deal?”
U/F: “Hey, you by yourself?”
Evans: “Yeah.”
U/F: “I’mma, uh, can I come pick that up tonight?”
Evans: “Yeah, you could.”
U/F: “You sure?”
Evans: “Yeah nigga, I told you you could.”
U/F: “Alright, I’m gonna give you like. I’m gonna give you two-fifty when I
get paid next time. I get paid again on the twenty. I think the twenty-
fourth. I’m gonna give you two-fifty.”
Evans: “Alright, that’s cool. Hey I/A, you know you good.”
U/F: “I know, I know nigga.”
Evans: “I don’t wanna hear none of this shit, you good.”
U/F: “Uh, what what happened with your boy today?
Evans: “Man, that bitch ass nigger didn’t send it. He was uh. He wasn’t goin
to get his shit out by the end of the day. But I ended up sending
everybody shit out but his today. So I was like, fuck it. I already, I
already didn’t care about it. But I was just like.”
U/F: “Okay. I was just making sure. That’s all. I was just.”
Evans: “Yeah, you know. That’s the reason I didn’t even call you. She know
my call was gonna be. I, I was gonna call you to see if the money
already got on there.”
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U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “And shit like that. But that nigga told me he never ended up
sending nothing. I was like, alright well fuck it bro. Like that’s you.”
U/F: “Alright, cool.”
Evans: “I/A keep my day doin. So fuck all that.”
U/F: “Alright cool.”
Evans: “Alright, but yeah you good. Um, you know, when I really need it I’m
really call you. I got your number too.”
U/F: “Okay. I’mma uh. You gonna be at your moms or you gonna be at
home?”
Evans: “Well.”
U/F: “Huh?”
Evans: “I was really goin to go home right now. I ain’t slept all day cuz. I
was about to go home and go to sleep. I ain’t gonna lie to you. But
you can still come. Right now, I’m gonna still be up for you to uh
still come and come and uh grab it.”
U/F: “I’ll just call you. If you answer, you answer. You don’t, you don’t.”
Evans: “Yeah, basically you know what’s up.”
U/F: (Laughing) “Alright.”
Evans: “But I’m gonna tell you, most likely still come. Still make your way
to come. I’m gonna send you my address right now.”
U/F: “Okay.”
Evans: “So whenever, whenever you ready, just call me.”
U/F: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
U/F: “Bye.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of the phone call transcribed above is in reference to a drug
transaction between Ricky Evans and an unknown female. Further, your affiants
opine that when Evans tells the unknown female, “he never ended up sending
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nothing” he is referring to Joshua Quiles’ continued delay in sending him money
for a drug shipment.
As detailed in this affidavit, Pinger records were obtained for phone
number 215-436-8699, which was a phone number used by Joshua Quiles.
These records, including messages sent and received prior to the below
referenced intercepted communications. On February 8, 2022, Quiles sent
messages to Evans which said, “Yo bro, Its chase,” and “Bro I need you take all
extra steps to secire this jext jawn and go to that store I told you bout I cant
afford another loss.” Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, it is
your affiants’ opinion that Joshua Quiles aka “Chase Benjii” told Evans that he
can’t afford to take another loss – which referred to the seizure of packages sent
to Quiles by law enforcement. The messages continued, as detailed below:
CALLS #241, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 253, 257, 259, 262, 267, 306, 386,
AND 402 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022, THROUGH
FEBRUARY 14, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN 215-436-
8699, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-
744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
215-436-8699 (Call #241): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #243): “Wat up bro”
215-436-8699 (Call #245): “Whats the casapps u want me to use”
Evans (Call #247): “$SWAGGK60”
Evans (Call #249): “$bolivar55”
Evans (Call #251): “U sending today or in the a.m I could have take
bread for in the morning to make sure yo shit
make it out early”
215-436-8699 (Call #253): “Today”
Evans (Call #255): “Bet”
Evans (Call #257): “$ZedraSlaton”
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Evans (Call #259): “You can send to all those if you have to.”
215-436-8699 (Call #262): “Rd”
Evans (Call #267): “Let me know when it’s all sent and done so I
could make sure it’s on they shit”
Evans (Call #306): “U sent off or top of the morning”
Evans (Call #386): “Yo”
Evans (Call #402): “Yo bro so u ain’t sent nothing off this whole time”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed text messages between Ricky Evans and the unknown
user of 215-436-8699 is related to Evan’s shipment of drugs from the Los
Angeles, CA area to the Philadelphia, PA area. Specifically, Evans is giving the
unknown user of the phone number 215-436-8699 different CashApp accounts,
including $SWAGGK60, $BOLIVAR55, and $ZEDRASLATON, for money to be
sent to Evans to use to cover the shipping costs associated with sending the
drugs from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. By searching the phone number 267-
808-0063, a number known to be associated with Joshua “Chase” Quiles, your
affiants discovered that Quiles’ CashApp account uses $CHASEBENGI.
CALLS #264 AND 269 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022,
BETWEEN 4:50PM AND 4:51PM, A TEXT MESSAGE AND A FOLLOW-UP
VOICE CALL BETWEEN 213-245-9495, A NUMBER USED BY AN UNKNOWN
FEMALE, POSSIBLY ZEDRA SLATON, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #264): “My boy still finna send bread I still gave him yo cash
app I’f he do just let me know.”
Call #269
Evans: “Hey.”
U/F: “What up!”
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Evans: “What up. I still got my, I still got my man probably about to send,
send the money off. So I don’t know if he gonna send it to yours,
but I gave him my mom’s, mine, and yours. So, let me see if he
gonna send it to all three or just our two.”
U/F: “Ok well just, uh, it won’t be able to take it off tomorrow because
you know the bank’s closed here.”
Evans: “No I know, I know, I know, I know. That’s the whole reason why
he want to send it today so I can get all that out the way early
tomorrow.”
U/F: “Oh alright cool.”
Evans: “Alright.”
U/F: “Just let me know.”
Evans: “Alright.”
U/F: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
the call transcribed above was related to Evans’ ongoing drug distribution.
Specifically, Evans is talking to “Zedra” about her CashApp account and
informing her that she may receive money from a drug customer that is intended
for him.
CALL #279 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022, AT
6:51PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 424-559-9922, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, FROM 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
U/M: “I/A what up homie?”
Evans: “What up homie?”
U/M: “Man, you done got me into trouble last night nigga.”
Evans: “So sorry, what’s up?”
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U/M: “My girl, my girl talking about man that’s a bitch calling I/A that’s
Ricky’s dumb ass.”
Evans: “Oh you a fool, she a fool.”
U/M: “I was like that was Ricky’s dumb ass calling me at like four in the
morning.”
Evans: “Say I was, I was calling you at four in the morning yesterday. I
was, I was (laughs).”
U/M: “I/A she like nah he wasn’t… she like, she like no wonder you be,
you be on that phone late. You probably got a bitch calling you
then. Nah man that’s Ricky’s dumb ass look at his number. Yeah
right that’s just what you do. I’m like yeah whatever.”
Evans: “That’s just what you do (laughs) you can’t never win bro, you can’t
never win.”
U/M: “Uhhhhh. I like man… I/A it was fight I/A.”
Evans: “Nah nah you just not gonna win bro.”
U/M: “Yeah. I’m glad she started fighting with her kids so it was like…”
Evans: “Yeah be like…”
U/M: “It took the attention off of me.”
Evans: “They take, yeah, take the attention off of me right now.”
U/M: “Yeah I was getting in trouble I/A, and then that’s when her dumb
ass kids fucked up…”
Evans: (Laughs)
U/M: “talked back to her and then she just focused on them so it’s like,
alright cool. What up, what we on?”
Evans: “Alright, shit uhh umm I got some money right now umm they
about to- uhh well they already sending me the money right now.”
U/M: “Oh alright.”
Evans: “I just gotta uhh really just get it, get it off shit really.”
U/M: “What tomorrow huh?”
Evans: “Umm I/A or not for four.”
U/M: “Oh that’s right.”
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Evans: “They don’t want me to… he don’t to send out one he said he just
got some money. So, he want to send out for five on, umm…”
U/M: “So you can send him six?”
Evans: “On Wednesday. Yeah so I can send him six together.”
U/M: “Alright, alright, alright, alright.”
Evans: “So he told me to keep this one here.”
U/M: “Oh yeah so send him six.”
Evans: “While I got… so I still got one right now here.”
U/M: “I/A”
Evans: “Everything else went, yeah, everything else went out already.”
U/M: “Oh ok cool, cool. Yeah, yeah it’s good that you did that. You were
already waiting for Chase and shit. Yeah.”
Evans: “Yeah I already know Chase and then Black gonna come through.
So, you know how that go. Black about to come within this week
too. So that’s gonna be…”
U/M: “Oh he’s flying back out?”
Evans: “No he not gonna fly back out but he gonna send some bread out.
Cause he wanna get his jacket and shit that he left over here.”
U/M: “Ohh ok.”
Evans: “I told him, I said, I said when you, when you send out I’ll just, I’ll
send that shit with your shit.”
U/M: “Alright (laughs) I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah. Yeah I/A less than a hundred dollars I/A.”
U/M: “I/A. Alright so how much we looking at? For tomorrow at least.”
Evans: “Tomorrow, probably like only four.”
U/M: “Alright that’s cool.”
Evans: “I’m gonna ma- I’mma make sure see how much cash if I can
accept right now though. See how much they can take off right
now, anyway.”
U/M: “Ugh.”
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Evans: “It’s not even about how much that we can get. It’s… let me see
how much I can take off the CashApp. That, you know that shit’s
stressful.”
U/M: “Hell yeah nigga… a pain.”
Evans: “Yeah, a pain in the ass. I- I’mma figure it out for you though.
I’mma let you know.”
U/M: “I/A alright let me know.”
Evans: “But everything green, though everything he already just showed
me, he sending it today so I ain’t gotta deal with it ‘til tomorrow.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed phone call is related to Evans’ trafficking of drugs
from the Los Angeles, CA area to the Philadelphia, PA area. Specifically, Evans
refers to “Chase” and “Black,” who your affiants know from this investigation to
be Joshua Quiles and Tyrone Baker. Further, Evans is speaking about Quiles
and Baker in reference to their sending CashApp payments to be used to be used
for the shipment of drugs from Los Angeles to the Philadelphia area. Additionally,
your affiants know from their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the facts of this investigation that drug dealers will often send
digital payments through money transfer applications such as CashApp using
the accounts of other individuals, in an attempt to distance themselves from the
money transfer in the event they are being monitored by law enforcement.
Through this investigation, your affiants know that this is specifically the case
with Joshua Quiles and Ricky Evans.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, they know
that it is common for those involved in criminal activity to regularly change their
phone numbers to try to conceal their identities and activities from others,
specifically law enforcement. As detailed below, on February 15, 2022, Evans
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received an incoming text message, “Yo bro this chase.” It is, therefore, your
affiants’ opinion that the “old” phone number, 215-436-8669, no longer was
being used and the “new” phone number, 610-934-2154, was now the phone
number for Joshua Quiles aka Chase Benjii. It should be noted that since Evans
began communicating with 610-934-2154, he has not communicated with 215-
436-8669 at any point.
CALLS #460, 462, 466, 472, 496, 498, 500, 507, 515, 517, 519, 523, 525,
527, 529, 531, 533, 535, 538, 540, 566, 568, 570, 572, 575, 593, 599, 607,
609, 613, 619, 623, 635, AND 643 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 15, 2022 THROUGH FEBRUARY 16, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT
MESSAGES BETWEEN 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES
AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (Call #460): “Yo bro this chase”
Quiles (Call #462): “Im bout send that over in few”
Evans (Call #466): “Just send it bro imma take care of if when i see it”
Quiles (Call #472): “Rd”
Evans (Call #496): “Yo bro u sending out today rite ?”
Evans (Call #498): “I got my man’s tryna send off too I told him let me take
care of yo process for yo cash app first before he do that
so I can figure out how I’mma take his”
Evans (Call #500): “shit out next”
Quiles (Call #507): “Yea fasure fasure”
Quiles (Call #515): “Bro im cash appon u for 2 jawns rn”
Quiles (Call #517): “Can you 2 day them when i see they rollin imma send
more”
Evans (Call #519): “Yea that’s cool bro but that’s a Lil bread to have me
doin all that when u grabbing small rite now just shoot
me 1350 bro I got u tho”
Quiles (Call #523): “Damn i only was able put the 1250 bro”
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Quiles (Call #525): “Lmk wat u can do im sendin for more Thursday juss
need them couple jawns bow dont wanna wait”
Evans (Call #527): “I got u bro”
Evans (Call #529): “Go ahead Send over”
Evans (Call #531): “Just do $bolivar55 ND my jawn”
Evans (Call #533): “If u could all of it to the $bolivar55”
Quiles (Call #535): “Fint send whole 2500 to ine jawn?”
Evans (Call #538): “That’s coo”
Evans (Call #540): “Send to that jawn rite there”
Quiles (Call #566): “Rd”
Quiles (Call #568): “$bolivar55?”
Evans (Call #570): “Yea”
Evans (Call #572): “My mom’s pic should be right there she a Spanish
lookin lady”
Evans (Call #575): “U sent it already”
Evans (Call #593): “Yo. Bro.”
Evans (Call #599): “Wat happend did u send it”
Quiles (Call #607): “Juss did”
Evans (Call #609): “Did it go threw tho”
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(L - Quiles (Call #613); R - Quiles (Call #623))
Quiles (Call #619): “Yea”
Quiles (Call #635): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #643): “I got it”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed text message conversation is related to a drug sale by
Ricky Evans to Joshua Quiles. More specifically, “Chase” (Quiles) tells Evans he
is going to send a CashApp payment for “2 jawns.” This investigation has
previously revealed that Evans sells methamphetamine for $1250.00 a pound.
Quiles ultimately sends a picture to Evans showing a CashApp payment of
$2500.00 sent to the CashTag “$bolivar55,” which is where Evans directed
Quiles to send the payment.
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Pinger phone records (detailed elsewhere in this affidavit) were obtained
for phone number 610-934-2154, which provided the continued conversation
between Quiles and Evans during the overnight hours:
Evans (Pinger): “Yo wats Addy going g out in the morning br9”
Evans (Pinger): “Try send like 150 bro if it’s anything extra I’ll have you cash
app. The rest”
Evans (Pinger): “In the morning tho”
Quiles (Pinger): “Got u in the morning bro please go to box city”
Evans (Pinger): “Bro I ain’t going no where but box city bro I told u that shit a
hour and half from crib threw traffic I be having to get there
in the morning to get out my way bro later in the day is the
process to get there”
Evans (Pinger): “I’m in downtown that shit in the valley”
Evans (Pinger): “That’s why I try to get the bread early to take care of that shit
when it got to do wit cash app”
Evans (Pinger): “Please try send Addy in the morning so I could take care of it
don’t wait till 12 my time to do it”
Quiles (Pinger): “Oo rd i got u yea bro cuz anywhere else ion wanna chance
takin no L im tryn get back to my regular orders 10 and up
but erytime i work ma way back up sum shit happen so im
juss tryn build back up”
Evans (Pinger): “I already know where yo head at I’m not mad at that either
I’m gone make sure u build shit back up my self bro no
shortcut threw the process 💯i dont need another L in the
motion of us getting back where we was at but I’m making
sure on my end you don’t take. Another one this year”
Evans (Pinger): “Send Addy bro”
Evans (Pinger): “I’m on my way there now and 150”
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Of note during the above conversation is that Evans stated that he does
not need another “L,” a common abbreviation meaning “loss,” which your affiants
believe to be in reference to the law enforcement seizure of methamphetamine
from packages sent by Evans to members of this drug trafficking organization.
CALL #647 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 16, 2022, AT 3:39
PM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 323-428-0768, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
USED BY ESTHER BOLIVAR, TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
Evans: “Yo mommy.”
U/F: “Oh, when you don’t answer the phone, I be worried. What
happened?”
Evans: “Nothing.”
U/F: “Okay, why you don’t answer the freaking phone?”
Evans: “Man, my phone was on silent. Not even that, I was sitting there
watching some fuckin Netflix shit.”
U/F: “Uh hum.”
Evans: “I/A”
U/F: “I/A. I be. Okay, so what you want me to do with the money, you
want me to take it out?”
Evans: “Yeah, just take it out. And then keep, uh, keep the five hundred.”
U/F: “Yeah, who sent me five. And then the other one. Two thousand five
hundred.”
Evans: “Who?”
U/F: “Somebody sent me two thousand five hundred.”
Evans: “Okay, that’s just one person.”
U/F: “Huh?”
Evans: “That’s just one person.”
U/F: “No, two thousand five hundred. And the other one, five hundred.”
Evans: “Who sent you five hundred?”
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U/F: “I don’t know.”
Evans: “I/A”
U/F: “Five hundred somebody. Michelle something. Or maybe that’s Izzy,
I don’t know.”
Evans: “Yeah probably Izzy. Michelle, that sound like his girl.”
U/F: “Yeah, okay. So, try to get in contact with Izzy to see if he send the
money.”
Evans: “I/A”
U/F: “Okay, so you got. So I have to give you two thousand?”
Evans: “Thank you.”
U/F: “Huh?”
Evans: “Yup. Yup.”
U/F: “Ricky, two thousand?”
Evans: “Yes!”
U/F: “That has to be Izzy. The one that sent that I/A. That sent it to me
last night. So that’s maybe Izzy.”
Evans: “Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s Izzy. I/A.”
U/F: “Okay, let me see. Let me see.”
Evans: “Okay, just one question. I don’t know when my other boy’s about
to send the money, but. I/A.”
U/F: “I/A. I don’t know.”
Evans: “So, do you need the five hundred then, or don’t you need the five
hundred?”
U/F: “Okay. I/A.”
Evans: “If you don’t need the five hundred, I need the five hundred. So let
me know. Did Izzy give you the five hundred?”
U/F: “Claudio. Claudio, who is Claudio?”
Evans: “Whose Claudio?”
U/F: “Uh huh.”
Evans: “Claudio?”
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U/F: “That’s the one that send me the money. Okay, let me call you
back.”
Evans: “Let me see if it’s Izzy.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the phone call transcribed above between Ricky Evans and his mother is
related to a payment for drugs by Joshua Quiles to Ricky Evans. More
specifically, Evans discusses with his mother that got a payment from “Claudio.”
Your affiants know that Joshua Quiles’ girlfriend’s name is Nineska Claudio, and
therefore the $2500.00 payment Quiles and Evans previously discussed likely
came from an account associated with her. Through a search of phone numbers
associated with Nineska Claudio within CashApp, your affiants learned that the
account $NKLYNN is associated with Claudio.
CALLS #651, 815, 817, 819, 821, 828, 830, 832, 836, 838, 842, 844, 846,
851, 853, 857, AND 860 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 16,
2022, THROUGH FEBRUARY 17, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES
BETWEEN 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE
BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (Call #651): “Rd”
Evans (Call #815): “Send Addy bro”
Evans (Call #817): “I’m on my way there now and 150”
Evans (Call #819): “Yo Addy bro”
Evans (Call #821): “Yo”
Quiles (Call #828): “Ma faukt bro juss got up goin rn now only tale me like
10min”
Evans (Call #830): “Bet”
Evans (Call #832): “The Addy tho bro “
Evans (Call #836): “Yo I’m here bro”
Evans (Call #838): “Addy”
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Evans (Call #842): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #844): “I Juss need the Addy I gotta handle some shit rite now
I told u was coming early”
“Quiles (Call #846): “Terell leake
1323 n Wanamaker st
Philadelphia ps 19131”
Evans (Call #851): “200 even bro”
Evans (Call #853): “190 4real”
Evans (Call #857):
Quiles (Call #860): “Sent that”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the text messages transcribed above are related to a shipment of
approximately two pounds of methamphetamine by Ricky Evans to Joshua
Quiles. More specifically, Evans sent Quiles a photograph of the receipt with
tracking information, which confirmed to Quiles that Evans did send the drugs
and allowed Quiles to track the shipment moving forward.
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CALL #1436 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 19, 2022, AT
6:05PM, AN OUTGOING TEXT MESSAGE TO 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED
BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #1436): “Touch down bro”
Based on the above intercepted messages and the surveillance detailed
below, it is your affiants’ opinion that these text messages from Evans meant
that the package sent from Evans to Quiles had arrived.
Surveillance of Package Delivery – Saturday, February 19, 2022
On Saturday, February 19, 2022, at approximately 8:30AM, surveillance
was established at 1323 N. Wanamaker Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and
625 South Goddard Blvd., Apartment 546, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
At approximately 10:14AM, fixed surveillance observed a silver Ford
Fusion (PA registration LRX-3636) arrive and park directly in front of 1323 N.
Wanamaker Street, Philadelphia, the address of the package delivery. At
approximately 10:26AM, fixed surveillance observed a black male, wearing a
black “puma” sweatshirt and black pants, exit the vehicle and walk in the
direction of 1323 N. Wanamaker Street. At the same time, Detective Stanley
drove through the block and positively identified the person as Zion Leath. An
inquiry through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation revealed the
vehicle is registered on a 2012 Ford Fusion to Zion Abdul Leath, 1323 N.
Wanamaker Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131.
At approximately 5:17PM, the tracking information on UPS Package
(Tracking # 1Z994392PW97831589) was updated. The tracking information
indicated that the package destined for 1323 Wanamaker Street was being
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dropped off at a UPS Access Point located at Martinez Mini Market, 1300 N. 57th
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At approximately 5:19 PM, fixed surveillance observed Zion Leath exit
1323 Wanamaker Street and departed the area in his vehicle. Surveillance was
maintained on Leath as he went directly to Martinez Mini Market. Prior to his
arrival, Detective Fuentes, acting in an undercover capacity, entered the
establishment. Upon the arrival of Leath, Detective Wood observed him park his
vehicle on the corner of 57th Street and Thompson Street and enter the
establishment empty handed. Upon entering, at approximately 5:27PM,
Detective Fuentes observed Leath on his phone as he took possession of a sealed
cardboard box and exited the Mini Market. As Leath was exiting, Detective Wood
took a photograph of Leath as he was carrying the box. Surveillance was
maintained on Leath as he returned directly to 1323 Wanamaker Street. Upon
arrival, fixed surveillance observed Leath exit his vehicle with the box and enter
his residence.
Less than (1) one minute later, fixed surveillance observed Leath exit his
residence and depart the area in his vehicle empty handed. Surveillance was
maintained on Leath as he went directly to the Amazon Fulfillment Center, 50
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New Canton Way, Robbinsville, New Jersey 08691. It is believed based on the
number of employees entering the facility that Leath was also an employee
arriving for work.
Summary of Package delivery on February 19, 2022
Based on the above intercepted calls, UPS receipt with tracking
information, and surveillance, coupled with your affiants’ training, knowledge,
and experience, it is their opinion that Evans shipped a package via UPS to
Philadelphia arranged by and paid for by Joshua Quiles via phone number 610-
634-2154 and CashApp account $NKYLYNN. The package was delivered and
placed inside 1323 Wanamaker Street, Philadelphia. Through the law
enforcement database TLOxp.com, your affiants learned that 1323 Wanamaker
Street, Philadelphia is the residence of Zion Leath, who is believed to be a relative
of Quiles, possibly a cousin. Leath is also associated with the address 2613 N.
8th Street, Philadelphia, which is address listed for Quiles according to PennDOT.
CALL #2062 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 21, 2022, AT
2:55PM, AN INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE FROM 610-934-2154, A PHONE
USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, TO 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (Call #2062): "Yea"
It is your affiants’ opinion that the above response was Quiles confirming
that he received the package delivered on February 19, 2022.
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CALLS #2184, 2186, 2192, 2200, 2203, 2291, 2300, 2305, 2311, 2328,
2336, 2338, 2340, 2349, 2362, 2364, 2366, AND 2369 ON DOCKET 38-5
E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 22, 2022, BETWEEN 12:51AM AND 12:59PM AND
PINGER PHONE RECORD CONTENT RECEIVED VIA SEARCH WARRANT, A
SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED BY
JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (Call #2184): “Can i send to then other cashapps we aint use bro”
Quiles (Call #2186): “Tryn get 3 rq”
Evans (Call #2192): “Yea bro show me witch ones I sent u “
Evans (Call #2200): “I forgot which ones I sent you “
Evans (Call #2203): “Was it the $ZedraSlaton “
Quiles (Pinger): “Yea think it was that one and another one”
Quiles (Pinger): “Tryn send it early get one in this week i should be gd
prolly got do 3”
Evans (Pinger): “I deleted it but she said cash app is taxin bro u could
still send but u don’t got Zelle?”
Evans (Pinger): “U could send out early “
Quiles (Pinger): “Like this time and 1 more then be back at 5 like 2 times
then up from there tryn get back to regular afyer then
losses”
Quiles (Pinger): “I could try get zell”
Quiles (Pinger): “Imma see wsp tomorrow early”
Evans (Pinger): “Try to do Zell as well might make it easy on some bigger
amount of bread “
Evans (Pinger): “Yup bet but I got u bro “
Evans (Call #2291): “You up”
Quiles (Call #2300): “Uea nro”
Quiles (Call #2305): “That zelle shit not workin for me”
Evans (Call #2311): “Bet send three cash app”
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Evans (Call #2328): “Let me make sure it’s that one before sending send
Luke a 1$ first “
Evans (Call #2336): “$ZedraSlaton q”
Evans (Call #2338): “$ZedraSlaton ”
Evans (Call #2340): “Did u do it yet”
Quiles (Call #2349): “Yea check i request a $1 to make sure”
Evans (Call #2362): “If she got a green rag on her head it’s her”
Evans (Call #2364): “U can send it”
Evans (Call #2366): “Send wat ever else to me”
Quiles (Call #2369): “Atd”
In the above text message exchange, Evans and Quiles discuss CashApp,
which is a mobile payment application, and specifically mention $Cashtag,
$ZedraSlaton, with profile picture of a female wearing a “green rag on her head.”
Evans also asked Quiles to pay via Zelle, which your affiants know to be a mobile
payment application which can be used to send and receive money, but Quiles
responded that Zelle was not working for him. Based on your affiants training,
knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that the above text message
exchange between Evans and Quiles is the arranging of a drug transaction.
QUILES SHIPMENT #2 – 4.36LBS PACKAGE DELIVERED
ON FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Another package was ordered by Joshua Quiles on February 22, 2022,
with a scheduled delivery on February 25, 2022, as follows:
CALLS #2397, 2400, 2402, 2404, 2411, 2419, 2425, 2426, 2440, 2469,
2481, 2483, 2487, 2489, 2491, 2496, 2500, 2512, 2515, 2524, 2526, 2528,
2530, 2535, 2541, 2559, 2561, 2569, 2571, 2573, 2575, 2578, 2580, 2583,
2585, 2605, 2609, AND 2611 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY
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22, 2022 BETWEEN 1:38PM AND 9:28PM, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES
AND VOICE CALLS BETWEEN 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA
QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
Evans (Call #2397): “I’m waiting on u”
Evans (Call #2400): “To grab the bread “
Quiles (Call #2402): “Doin now”
Quiles (Call #2404): “Depositing”
Quiles (Call #2411): “Do half and half?”
Quiles (Call #2419): “Yoo”
Quiles (Call #2425):
Call #2426
Quiles: “Yo.”
Evans: “Yo.”
Quiles: “Yeah, I I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah, you can do half and half but I just I/A.”
Quiles: “Yeah, I’m gonna do the other half to your jawn then.”
Evans: “Yeah, I was on my way to go uh. I’m on my way to go grab the other
two I/A right now. So by that time I should. Two should be ready
I/A. Take I/A. Take I/A.”
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Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Right now.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “So you can send me the rest.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Quiles (Call #2440):
Evans (Call #2469): “Bro they took 160 from the bread you sent me to take
it out”
Quiles (Call #2481): “Rd imma send it”
Evans (Call #2483): “Try send that and some sending bread bro before I
head up there I’m on ma way up there now”
Evans (Call #2487): “U want it out today “
Quiles (Call #2489): “Yea if u can make it to boxcity”
Quiles (Call #2491): “Cani send u the money for the sendin them owe u the
shit cashapp took”
Evans (Call #2496): “Yea I’m 5 min away from box city now bro”
Evans (Call #2500): “I’m sending some other shit our rite now next day but
I’m tryna see if i even got enough I took a loss of 340
from taking bread off this morning”
Evans (Call #2512): “Yea I ain’t even got enough for my next day jawn I’m
tryna have some body send it to me now”
Evans (Call #2515): “2 day that jawn rite “
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Evans (Call #2524): “Yo “
Evans (Call #2526): “Wats the Addy u using send it to me asap”
Evans (Call #2528): “Terrell leak jawn coo”
Evans (Call #2530): “Yo”
Call #2535
01:20 - 01:30 VOICE MAIL MESSAGE
Evans: “Yo Chase, yo bro”
Evans (Call #2541): “I just need more for 2 day bro”
Evans (Call #2559): “I got it”
Evans (Call #2561): “I’m using last Addy bro”
Call #2569
Evans: (Evans speaking in background as phone rang)
Quiles: “Yo.”
Evans: “Yo tell me that ain’t the address that you wanted to use.”
Quiles: “I mean, no I ain’t want to I just used it.”
Evans: “Ughhh.”
Quiles: “But you used it though?”
Evans: “Yeah I used it ‘cause the nigga finally got the money and then I’m
like alright, but then I’m like what’s the addy? And them I’m like
damn cuz… I be wanting you to just re-up.”
Quiles: “I mean I can use it again ‘cause that’s my folks but I ain’t want to
re-use a jawn like that. Cause I don’t, I ain’t trying to re-use
nothing.”
Evans: “I ain’t mad at that. That’s why I’m like bro, I be asking you for that
early in the morning so I don’t even be, you know, hesitate even if I
do got the bread I’mma make sure I take care of it. At that time its
just like, its like damn cuz now I ain’t got no addy and no bread so
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its like alright, now let me see what’s the, and then soon as I get the
bread you still don’t answer… yeah right across the street…”
Quiles: “I/A damn, fuck.”
Evans: “But I can go back up there and change it cause I’m right down the
street from there now but I… just the fact of when you did it I was
just like alright let me see I’mma just use the last one since uh, you
feel me, cause I only used one time but I’m like let me just use the
last one and hopefully, you know?”
Quiles: “Yeah, no this jawn’s weird last time the nigga wind up taking to the
corner store some weird shit, he ain’t leave it. Ain’t never knocked
or nothing.”
Evans: “I know that’s what I had said, I had seen that shit.”
Quiles: “Yeah…”
Evans: “I/A was anything good.”
Quiles: “And I had somebody sitting there waiting and then he was… I’m
like wait why they taking it to a corner store? He was like, what I’m
sitting right here nobody never knocked… they ain’t leave a ticket,
nothing. Like that shit was just all weird. Lucky my- he was able to
go grab it at the store.”
Evans: “Uh yeah luckily cuz, god damn.”
Quiles: “Yeah that shit was all weird.”
Evans: “I/A luckily I’m about to go change that there now that you just
telling me. Umm just send me that address you need me use ‘cause
it might uhh it might be cheaper than what I just paid yeah.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Send me the right addy umm so when I go up there right now I can
just change it. Umm and then just try to put the bread off of uh for
me umm for all the shit, you know?”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Them bitches I/A tried to call Black to see if he could of send me
the eighty. I only need the eighty more ‘cause I had one twenty in
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my hand. But then the shit costed one eighty so I was just like
lemme see, I’mma let me see who got eight bucks cuz.”
Quiles: “Alright, I’mma bout to send you the I/A.”
Evans: “Alright, alright.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans (Call #2571): “Send it bro I’m headed back up there”
Quiles (Call #2573): “Ard”
“Quiles (Call #2575): “Jesus Franqui
1906 Devereaux Ave
Philadelphia Pa 19149”
Quiles (Call #2578): “Yea bro 2 day”
Evans (Call #2580): “I changed it finna send it now”
Evans (Call #2583): “I got u I changed it bro “
Evans (Call #2585):
Quiles (Call #2605): “Got u bro imma send that over”
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Evans (Call #2609): “320 total bro 160 from sending and 160 for the take off
cash app”
Evans (Call #2611): “U gone send tonight or in the morning “
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the text messages and voice calls transcribed above are related to a
shipment of approximately three pounds of methamphetamine by Ricky Evans
to Joshua Quiles. More specifically, Evans sent Quiles a photograph of the
receipt with tracking information, which confirmed to Quiles that Evans did send
the drugs and allowed Quiles to track the shipment moving forward.
Surveillance of Package Delivery – Friday, February 25, 2022
On Friday, February 25, 2022, at approximately 7:40AM, surveillance was
established at 1906 Devereaux Avenue, Philadelphia. Fixed surveillance
observed a female, believed to be Alina Leon, girlfriend of Joshua Quiles, park in
front of 1906 Devereaux Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a black Dodge
Journey, Pennsylvania Registration LBZ-1836. Leon entered the front door of
1906 Devereaux Avenue after utilizing a key to unlock the door. A record check
through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation revealed the Dodge
Journey is registered to Alina Milagros Leon at 1906 Devereaux Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At approximately 12:19PM, fixed electronic surveillance, as well as
Detective Fuentes, observed a UPS truck arrive on the 1900 block of Devereaux
Street. The UPS driver carried a large brown box from the truck and delivered it
on the front step of 1906 Devereaux Avenue. At approximately 12:20PM, fixed
surveillance, observed a female, believed to be Alina Leon, open the front door of
1906 Devereaux Avenue, pick up the UPS box, and bring it inside the residence.
A check of the tracking number through UPS confirmed that the package had
just been delivered to 1906 Devereaux Avenue.
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Surveillance of Cirro King of Prussia, Apartment 546 – Saturday, February
26, 2022
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 11:43AM, fixed surveillance observed
Joshua Quiles exit Apartment 546 of the Cirro King of Prussia, located at 625 S.
Goddard Boulevard, King of Prussia, PA 19406. Quiles was wearing a black coat
with a fur lining, black pants, and a close-fitting cloth tied around his head.
Surveillance of 1906 Devereaux Avenue – Saturday, February 26, 2022
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 12:31PM, fixed surveillance observed
Joshua Quiles, operating a white Honda Accord (PA registration LSB2751),
parked in front of 1906 Devereaux Avenue. Quiles exited the vehicle wearing a
black jacket with fur lining and black pants, and he entered 1906 Devereaux
Avenue at approximately 12:33PM. An inquiry through the PennDOT revealed
the vehicle is registered on a 2021 Honda to Joshua Quiles, 2613 N. 8th Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19133.
At the time of Quiles arrival, Alina Leon’s Dodge Journey, displaying
Pennsylvania Registration LBZ-1836 was parked on the street in front of 1906
Devereaux Avenue.
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At approximately 1:43PM, through the use of fixed surveillance, coupled
with the mobile surveillance of Detective Vinter, observed Joshua Quiles exit
1906 Devereaux Avenue carrying a brown cardboard box.
Quiles proceeded to his vehicle and placed the box in the trunk. He then
departed the area in his vehicle. Surveillance was maintained on Quiles as he
went directly to 586 Sanger Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and parked in the
alleyway behind the house.
Surveillance of 586 Sanger Street – Saturday, February 26, 2022
At approximately 2:01PM, Detective Lavin observed Quiles exit his vehicle
and remove a cardboard box from the trunk of his vehicle. He then walked
between the houses, where Detective Wood observed him enter the front door at
586 Sanger Street.
At approximately 2:09PM, Detective Lavin observed Quiles return to his
vehicle and open the trunk. During this time, Quiles was looking around the
area as if he was looking for law enforcement, a threat, or anyone who was
watching what he was doing. After the trunk was opened, Detective Lavin
observed Quiles remove what appeared to be illegal narcotics, vacuum sealed
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bags containing a crystal substance, believed to be methamphetamine, from his
jacket and place them in the trunk lid’s liner. He then closed the trunk and
departed the area.
(Left – Quiles’s arrival: After arriving in the alley behind 586 Sanger Street,
Quiles retrieved the brown cardboard box from the trunk.
Right – Quiles’ departure: After departing 586 Sanger Street, Quiles placed
vacuum sealed bags into liner of trunk)
Surveillance of 57 Melrose Avenue – Saturday, February 26, 2022
Surveillance was maintained on Quiles as he left Sanger Street and
traveled directly to Tyrone Baker’s residence located at 57 Melrose Avenue, E.
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Upon arrival at approximately 2:50PM, fixed
surveillance observed Quiles exit his vehicle and open the trunk. After retrieving
something from the trunk, Quiles placed the item in his jacket pocket and
entered 57 Melrose Avenue. It should be noted that at 2:51PM, Baker sent an
outgoing text message (Call #1305 on Docket 38-6 E.D. 2022) to Robert Smarra
Jr. which stated, “Yo it’s around,” which your affiants believe was related to
Baker obtaining a new supply of drugs from Quiles.
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While Quiles was inside 57 Melrose Avenue, Baker received a phone call
from Zachary Smith. During the voice call, Baker told Smith that he’s “here with
Chase and you know this shit.”
CALL #5807 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022, AT
3:18PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED
BY ZACHARY SMITH, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE UTILIZED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo.”
Smith: “I was about to say… I told this nigga to answer his phone.”
Baker: “Bro, I always answer my phone. Bro, I’m here with Chase and you
know this shit, what’s up? (Laugh)”
Smith: “You don’t always answer your fucking phone nigga we all been I/A
with you when you answer your phone.”
Baker: (Laughing)
Smith: (Speaking over Baker’s laughing) “Shut the fuck up, you lying and
shit. You lying.”
Baker: “I’ll give you I/A.”
Smith: “I just, I just caught you in a bold face lie, didn’t I? You just lie
I/A.”
Baker: (Laughing) “I’ll have to think twice I/A.”
Smith: “Anyway though, listen, um… I ain’t going to lie, I’m about to fly bro,
I need to, I need to get some samples on you and I have a half sold
already…”
Baker: “Alright and shit um...”
Smith: “We gonna, we gonna have to run into each other bro, but I’mma,
I’mma get rid of a lot of this shit bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: (Speaking over Baker) “A lot of this shit.”
Baker: “I have to go shoot to Jersey real quick to bust this trap over there
and then um and then I’ll be back, I’ll come right back over.”
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Smith: “Bro call me when you get back bro please bro call me when you get
back bro.”
Baker: “Alright, I, I got, I gotcha when I’m back on the road and you can
meet me. Bob damn…”
Baker: “You probably I/A, you probably gonna have to grab that, grab Bob
key or some bro.”
Smith: “Cause I got, I’mma bout, I’mma bout to shoot to Delaware with
Ashley, this bitch burning me off, I ain’t gonna I/A, told her I was
gonna go with her.”
Baker: “Just let him. What the fuck she got you going… Oh my GOD!”
Smith: “You know, you know, this bitch got me by the balls I/A told her
about this baby. Bro she flexing right, she getting this shit off on me.
Can we do this? You see I been going in the house early has shit bro,
you see what the f… you see what the fucking going on.”
Baker: “I’m in I/A, I just got back.”
Smith: “I/A I’ve been on, I’ve been on my best fucking behavior bro she got
me like a fucking church boy right here.”
Baker: “I/A, I’mma bout to grab Bob key cause you got chance gonna be
down north we gonna need too use Bub’s crib and instead of instead
have.”
Smith: “That’s not, that’s not a good jawn. Bob crib not a good jawn bro.”
Baker: “I know.”
Smith: “Where it’s at, where it’s at is a bad block. I think it’s on… it’s, it’s,
it’s, it’s on fucking Colorado Street bro.”
Baker: (Talking to male in background) “Oh so she gonna go put it outside?
Alright. Alright so.”
Quiles: “S/L you never heard it from me.”
Smith: “It’s in the middle of too much of what’s going on, feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah it is, I know I/A.”
Smith: “Them dumb niggas around their bro, like that’s not a…that’s not a
good jawn bro. You know what I’m saying? So…”
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Baker: (Talking to male in the background) “Alright Chase call me, let me
know where you put it at.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Baker: (Speaking over U/M) “I/A”
Smith: “So, I don’t I really, I don’t really want, I don’t wanna f…, I don’t
wanna fuck with Bob’s crib like running in and out that jawn bro
like, that’s not no good jawn bro.”
Baker: “Oh, really huh?”
Smith: “and Bob only got a room in their bro.”
Baker: “Yeah, there’s like four other females in that jawn.”
Smith: “Yeah and you never know if they got nigga in there, niggas break in
there (stuttering), there’s too many ways that shit goes bad bro.”
Baker: “No, I do know, I know, I know, I know, that’s why I’m saying we,
we...”
Smith: “I told, I already told Bob though, even before this came about I’mma
bout to get him, I’mma bout to get him an apartment and just listen
I tell little cuz listen man just pay, just pay some of the bills with me
you know what I’m saying and you can just knock off all that debt.
That ain’t no good jawn cuz.”
Baker: “Yeah, that’s that’s a lot of good jawn, I don’t like, like, I’m like damn
I/A you and all these others keep I/A it’s like damn bro.”
Smith: “And it’s like where’s the location is at jawn bro.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “That’s not a good ass location bro. So, I ain’t, I ain’t uh I ain’t with
that, I ain’t gonna lie that’s, that’s not no joke right there.”
Baker: (Speaking with an unknown individual in the background) “Nah, I
feel you, what’s up?”
Smith: “So…”
Baker: “Yeah, I/A.”
U/M2: “I/A”
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Baker: “S/L you already feeling like that jawn.”
U/M2: “huh?”
Baker: “I/A”
U/M2: “Yeah boy.”
Smith: “So, listen, I’mma call, I’mma, I’mma call you, just call me, just call
me when you come back into the city bro.”
Baker: “Alright, I gotcha.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Based on the above voice call where Baker told Zachary Smith that “Chase”
was there and then later said “Chase call me…,” it is your affiants’ opinion that
Baker was referring/talking to Joshua Quiles aka Chase Benjii inside his house.
Further, Baker told Smith that he needed to “bust a trap” in New Jersey, which
your affiants believe referred to Baker conducting a drug transaction with Robert
Smarra Jr., as detailed in section “Deal Five with Smarra.”
At approximately 3:21 PM, fixed surveillance observed Quiles exit 57
Melrose Avenue and depart the area in his vehicle.
Surveillance of Cirro King of Prussia, Apartment 546 – Saturday, February
26, 2022
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 4:05PM, fixed surveillance observed
Nineska “Nini” Claudio exit Apartment 546 with a small dog. At 4:08PM, Claudio
and Quiles returned and entered Apartment 546. Quiles was still wearing a black
coat with a fur lining, black pants, and a close-fitting cloth tied around his head.
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Summary of Package Delivery to Joshua Quiles – February 25-26, 2022
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that this package delivery was a shipment of controlled substances from
California to Philadelphia sent by Ricky Evans and ordered by Joshua Quiles.
Quiles exited his apartment in King of Prussia, retrieved the unopened box from
Devereaux Avenue and brought it to 586 Sanger Street where he brought the box
inside the house. He exited the house without the box and was observed placing
items inside the trunk liner. Quiles then went to Baker’s house where he
retrieved something from the trunk and went inside 57 Melrose Avenue. Shortly
after (as detailed elsewhere in this affidavit), Baker started telling his customers
that “it’s around,” which your affiants believe to mean that Baker received a new
supply of drugs from Quiles and was ready to start selling it to his customers.
Quiles then left Baker’s and returned to his apartment in King of Prussia.
QUILES SHIPMENT #3 – 3.04LBS PACKAGE DELIVERED
ON MARCH 4, 2022
A conversation regarding another order was started on Sunday, February
27, 2022, with Evans asking Quiles if they were “working tomorrow bro.” The
conversation continued as follows:
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CALLS #137, 289, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362, 364, 366, 368, 370, 394, 405,
407, AND 409 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN FEBRUARY 27, 2022,
AND FEBRUARY 28, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN 610-
934-2154, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND
424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #137): “We working tomorrow bro”
Quiles (Call #289): “Yea gotta do 2 agsin had pay some some but im coo
now so imma do 2 then 3 then 5 now i can catch up
from here”
Quiles (Call #354): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #356): “1800 456 1919. 623 232
OK send th3 bread when ready”
Evans (Call #358): “Yo just send when ready bro”
Evans (Call #360): “$bolivar55”
Quiles (Call #362): “Whats that”
Quiles (Call #364): “O rd nevermind got it”
Evans (Call #366): “Alright and send half half”
Evans (Call #368): “Half to mine and hers “
Evans (Call #370): “Wats the most u can shoot me back if I sent u a extra
one”
Evans (Call #394): “Yo u sending out today or tomorrow morning bro”
Quiles (Call #405): “16 i can make sumn happen”
Quiles (Call #407): “Today”
Quiles (Call #409): “Cant send it all to one?”
On March 2, 2022, Evans went to the shipping store, but forgot the
shipping address of where to send Quiles’ package. He then attempted multiple
times to contact Quiles (610-934-2154) but received no answer. Evans
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subsequently called Baker and asked for “another” phone number for Quiles
(267-808-0063) and attempted to contact Quiles on both of his phone numbers.
CALL #6553 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 AND 713 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D.
2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, AT 3:27PM, A PHONE CALL FROM RICKY EVANS
(424-223-3050) TO TYRONE BAKER (215-980-1764)
Baker: “Yo, yo bro.”
Evans: “Hey bro.”
Baker: “Yea.”
Evans: “Hey, can, can you, you ain’t got another number on Chase other
than little bullshit little text apps he has?”
Baker: “Ah yea, I got I can send you his number.”
Evans: “Yea, yea, um nah.”
Baker: “I can give it to you, no let me give it to you.”
Evans: “Yea please, yea please, please please…”
Baker: “Ready for it?”
Evans: “Yea hold on.”
Baker: “Let me know when you ready.”
Evans: “This nigger on some nut shit what is it?”
Baker: “Alright agh…”
Evans: “I’m gonna hang up on you soon as you finished.”
Baker: “I just that shit right there I/A 267…”
Evans: “Uh huh.”
Baker: “eight oh eight zero eight…”
Evans: “Uh huh.”
Baker: “zero zero six three, Imma, Imma call him now while we on the
phone.”
Evans: “Ah I was about call right now too ah.”
Baker: “Hold on don’t call him I’m Facetiming him.”
Evans: “Huh?”
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Baker: “Don’t call him now cause I’m Facetiming him.”
Evans: “Alright, go ahead, do that first.”
Baker: (Facetime ringing in background) “It’s three thirty so he should
should be around.”
Evans: “I don’t know but I’m right here at the jawn and and I forgot the
the addy was on my last phone not on this one...so I’m trying to get
the addy so I can get the fuck up out of here before traffic start
building back up.”
Baker: “I know I/A.”
Evans: “I/A electricity already out on this side of town cuz, so it’s already
making worse.”
Baker: “Yea, he ain’t pick up and shit you can call him.”
Evans: “Alright, Let me call cuz.”
Baker: “Alright.”
CALLS #648, 650, 669, 671, 673, 675, 678, 680, 682, 684, 687, 688, 690,
692, 696, 698, 700, 702, 704, 707, 709, 711, 715, 718, 721, 724, 727, 729,
735, 737, 739, 741, 743, 746, 750, 753, 756, 759, 770, 773, 871, 873, 877,
879, 883, 885, 888, 891, 894, AND 896 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON
MARCH 2, 2022 BETWEEN 2:29PM AND 4:59PM, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 610-934-2154 AND 267-808-0063, PHONES
USED BY JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-223-3050, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (610-934-2154) to Evans (Call #648): “Comin out today bro”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #650): “Yes sir I’m on ma way there
now”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #669): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #671): “Send Addy br0”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #673): “I forgot that it was on my last
phone”
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Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #675): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #678): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #680): “Br9”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #682): “Hit me”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #684): “Wit the Addy”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #687): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #688): “Yo bro”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #690): “Yo Brody”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #692): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #696): “Yo send Addy over bro”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #698): “I’m here”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #700): “At the jawn rite now”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #702): “It was my old number had the
old Addy”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #704): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #707): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #709): “Bro I’m tryna beat traffic going
back”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #711): “Bro if u can’t send it rite now
imma have to come tomorrow
to send out”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #715): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #718): “Yo bro need a Addy”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #721): “I’m here at the Hawn”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #724): “Jawn”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #727): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #729): “Yo bro”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #735): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #737): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #739): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #741): “Yo”
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Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #743): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #746): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #750): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #753): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #756): “Yo”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #759): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #770): “Wats going on”
Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #773): [Outgoing call - no answer]
Quiles (267-808-0063) to Evans (Call #871): “Same as last jawn”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #873): “Bro I had it in my old phone”
Quiles (267-808-0063) to Evans (Call #877): “Oo rd sendin now”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #879): “I ain’t got that jawn number”
Quiles (267-808-0063) to Evans (Call #883): “Bout send now”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #885): “OK”
Quiles (610-934-2154) to Evans (Call #888): “Jesus Franqui
1906 Devereaux Ave
Philadelphia pa 19149”
Quiles (267-808-0063) to Evans (Call #891): “U got it”
Quiles (267-808-0063) to Evans (Call #894): “?”
Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #896): “Yea”
Based on the above communications between Evans and Quiles (using two
phone numbers), it is your affiants’ opinion that Evans was attempting to ship a
package to Quiles, but needed the shipping address, later provided by Quiles as
1906 Devereaux Ave, Philadelphia PA 19149. Evans then called Box City to
finalize the shipping of the package. Evans’ calls to Baker in reference to Quiles
further supports your affiants’ opinion that Evans, Baker, and Quiles are all
working together to facilitate the trafficking of illegal drugs.
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CALL #924 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, AT 6:45PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 818-982-5675, A PHONE ASSOCIATED
WITH BOX CITY, FROM 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
U/F: “Box City how can I help you?”
Evans: “Hi, umm, I had a package there, umm can I talk to the umm dude
with the, with the cap on?”
U/F: “Yeah, give me one second.”
Evans: “Thank you.”
U/F: “Ok he’s busy right now but you, you left a package here you didn’t
have an address, right?”
Evans: “Yeah and I wanted to (coughs) I wanted to ship it off, yeah.”
U/F: “Yeah ok so hold on. Let me get the address then.”
Evans: “Did the truck come already?”
U/F: “Umm well, what did you want to do?”
Evans: “Two day.”
U/F: “Two day for FedEx or UPS?”
Evans: “UPS.”
U/F: “Ok yeah UPS hasn’t came yet. So what’s the address?”
Evans: “Ok the address is… 1906 umm uh Devereaux and I’mma spell it
for you: D-E-V-E-R-E-A-U-X.”
U/F: “Got you, Devereaux ok.”
Evans: “Ave.”
U/F: “Avenue, got you ok.”
Evans: “Philadelphia (chuckles) you funny (laughs).”
U/F: “Ok what’s the zip code?”
Evans: “Uhhh 19149 Philadelphia PA.”
U/F: “19149.”
Evans: “Yeah.”
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U/F: “Philadelphia. Okay. Alright then. So hold on one second the
computer is being used right now but I’m gonna get the exact total
for you ‘cause you left $160 right? What’s the name?”
Evans: “Yeah I left $160.”
U/F: “What’s the name?”
Evans: “Umm uhh hold on one second. It’s Jesus Franqui. So umm Jesus
as J-E-S…”
U/F: “Jesus? Okay.”
Evans: “Yeah J-E-S.”
U/F: “Franqui… F-A-R”
Evans: “Yeah. And Franqui… A-N-Q-U-I.”
U/F: “Q-U-I?”
Evans: “Yeah Q-U-I.”
U/F: “So Jesus: J-E-S-U-S. And Franq- so F-R-A-N-Q-U-R?”
Evans: “Q-U-I.”
U/F: “I. Okay.
Evans: “Alright.”
U/F: “I/A alright then. So just give me a second okay? It’s not gonna,
you gonna be on hold for a bit I/A.”
Evans: “Ok, no problem.”
Evans on hold from 2:24 – 6:04
U/M: “Hello? Hello?”
Evans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yeah boss I’m trying to- I’m doing your shipping right now.”
Evans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah so you wanted UPS two-day right?”
Evans: “Yeah correct.”
U/M: “Alright. It’s…and it…we’re good to go on the address? It’s
the correct one?”
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Evans: “Yeah I/A yeah the one I just gave you the Devereaux.”
U/M: “Okay. Nineteen…”
Evans: “Dev-uh-rocks, something like that.”
U/M: “Yeah nineteen zero six Devereaux Avenue?”
Evans: “Yup.”
U/M: “Philly?”
Evans: “Yup.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Evans: “PA.”
U/M: “So UPS two-day like I said gonna get there on Friday.”
Evans: “Uh huh.”
U/M: “Ok its gonna be $105.48.”
Evans: “Okay keep the change for yourself brother man, appreciate you for
doing this for me.”
U/M: “Alright. Alright, brother.”
Evans: (Speaking in background) “nothing.”
U/M: “Let me see. What’s the number, to for the confirmation?”
Evans: “The number for the information?”
U/M: “So I can send you the… you want a copy?”
Evans: “Oh, okay. Ok, oh you guys, you guys don’t have caller I.D.”
U/M: “Yeah, yeah no.”
Evans: “Ok its 4-2-4.”
U/M: “I/A give me a sec my shit’s not working. Gotta get another pen.
Let me see. 4-2-4?”
Evans: “2-2-3.”
U/M: “2-2-3.”
Evans: “30-50.”
U/M: “30-50. Okay, I’ll send that as soon as I have it your number.”
Evans: “Alright, thank you I appreciate you.”
U/M: “Alright, no problem, alright.”
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At 7:18PM, Evans received an incoming text message containing a picture
of the receipt from Box City #2, 818-509-8494, 12800 Victory Boulevard, North
Hollywood, CA 91606. The receipt was for shipping of a 12”x9”x9” packaging
weighing 3.04lb to Jesus Franqui, 1906 Devereaux Avenue, Philadelphia, with
expected arrival on March 4, 2022, with tracking information. He later texted a
portion of the receipt containing the tracking information to Quiles, as follows:
CALL #947 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, 8:15PM, AN
OUTGOING TEXT MESSAGE TO 610-934-2154, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA
QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, FROM 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY
RICKY EVANS
[ L – Call 939: Receipt from Box City
R – Call 947: Tracking information sent to Quiles ]
Based on the above text messages and your affiants’ training, knowledge,
and experience, it is their opinion that Evans sent Quiles another package
containing pounds of methamphetamine expected delivery on Friday, March 4,
2022 (tracking number: 1Z9943920294186800).
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Surveillance of Package Delivery – Friday, March 4, 2022
On Friday, February 25, 2022, at approximately 12:39PM, fixed
surveillance observed a UPS truck arrive on the 1900 block of Devereaux Street.
The UPS driver carried a large brown box from the truck and delivered it on the
front step of 1906 Devereaux Avenue. A check of the tracking number through
UPS confirmed that the package had just been delivered to 1906 Devereaux
Avenue. At approximately 1:05PM, fixed surveillance, observed a female, believed
to be Alina Leon, open the front door of 1906 Devereaux Avenue, pick up the
UPS box, and bring it inside the residence.
Image of box sitting on porch of 1906 Devereaux Avenue
At approximately 6:44PM, fixed surveillance observed Joshua Quiles,
operating his white Honda Accord, park in front of 1906 Devereaux Avenue.
Quiles exited the vehicle and entered 1906 Devereaux Avenue at approximately
6:45PM. Quiles remained inside the house until approximately 6:54PM, when he
exited the house carrying a box, which was similar in size to the package that
was shipped from Evans. He returned to his vehicle and departed the area.
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Intercepted phone call between Baker and unknown male regarding getting
more drugs
On March 3, 2022, a voice call was intercepted between Baker and an
unknown male. During the call, Baker told the male that he was looking for
“some” to hold him over until the next day when “his man gets some.”
CALL #6724 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 3, 2022, AT 5:58PM,
AN INCOMING VOICE CALL FROM 215-607-0798, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, FROM 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo Black, what’s good?”
Baker: “I/A how you doing?”
U/M: “I’m chilling, you around right now?”
Baker: “Um, a not actually I’m trying to be around this weekend I/A. I’m
was actually trying to find something to hold me for a couple days.”
U/M: “Yeah, my man just called me but I don’t want to get rid of, I got like
two, three jawns left. I’m trying to keep that for the phone, you hear
me?”
Baker: “Yeah, for the breakdowns and shit.”
U/M: “Right.”
Baker: “I/A.”
U/M: “You good?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah, I’m good. I’m doing shit right now and shit, I’m trying
to find some but shit I’m trying I/A till like tomorrow till my man
gets back.”
U/M: “I/A.”
Baker: “Alright I/A.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’
opinion that when Baker said he was waiting “till [his] man gets back,” he was
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referring to Quiles receiving a package of drugs on March 4, 2022. This was
further supported by surveillance of Quiles picking up a UPS package that had
been delivered to Devereaux Street on March 4, 2022, and then surveillance of
Baker going to Sanger Street, an address associated with Joshua Quiles.
Surveillance of 57 Melrose Avenue – Friday, March 4, 2022
On Friday, March 4, 2022, at approximately 8:28PM, Baker was observed
exiting 57 Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne and entering his white Dodge
Charger. Baker departed the area at approximately 8:34PM. Surveillance
officers, including Upper Darby Detective Sergeant McAleer, and Upper Darby
Detectives News, Barbour, Howell, and Welischek followed Baker from Melrose
Avenue. Baker traveled to the Santander Bank, 115 Chester Avenue, Yeadon, PA
where he used the ATM machine at approximately 8:40PM.
Baker was then followed by surveillance to the alley between the 500 block
of East Godfrey Avenue and Sanger Street10, Philadelphia, arriving at
approximately 9:26PM. Baker was observed by surveillance officers opening the
trunk of his Dodge Charger and going near the garages behind Sanger Street.
Three (3) minutes later at approximately 9:29PM, Baker departed the area.
Summary of the Package Delivery to Joshua Quiles – March 4, 2022
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that this package delivery was a shipment of controlled substances from
California to Philadelphia sent by Ricky Evans and ordered by Joshua Quiles.
Quiles retrieved the unopened box from Devereaux Avenue. Shortly after he
picked up the package, Baker was followed to the rear alley behind 568 Sanger
Street. It should be noted that this was the same location that Quiles took the
package he retrieved from Devereaux Avenue on February 26, 2022. Based on
10 It should be noted that during the 2nd package delivery to Quiles on February 26, 2022, Quiles picked up the package from Devereaux Avenue and then traveled directly to the alley behind 586 Sanger Street, eventually entering the front door of 586 Sanger Street.
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the activity involving 586 Sanger Street after these Quiles related deliveries, your
affiants believe that Quiles maintains 586 Sanger Street as a stash location for
his drug supply and the proceeds of his drug sales. After Baker went to Sanger
Street, he immediately began conducting drug transactions (detailed in this
affidavit as “Deal number eight with Robert Smarra Jr.” and “Deal number one
with John Wayne”), including with Robert Smarra Jr. and the unknown male,
“John Wayne.” It is therefore your affiants’ opinion that Quiles received drugs
from Evans which were then brought to 586 Sanger Street. The drugs were then
picked up by Baker at 586 Sanger Street and then sold by Baker to his network
of sub-dealers and customers.
QUILES SHIPMENT #4 AND #5 – 5.69LB PACKAGE
DELIVERED ON MARCH 10, 2022, AND 4.5LB PACKAGE
EXPECTED DELIVERY ON MARCH 12, 2022
A conversation regarding another order was started on Saturday, March
5, 2022, between Evans and Quiles, who used both of his phone numbers to
communicate with Evans.
CALLS #1274, 1291, 1292, 1295, AND 1297 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON
MARCH 5, 2022, BETWEEN 5:54PM AND 11:01PM, A SERIES OF TEXT
MESSAGES BETWEEN 610-934-2154 AND 267-808-0063, PHONES USED BY
JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #1274): “Yo bro”.
Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #1291): “Jhit me back asap”
Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #1292): “Call me wen u csn bro”
Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #1295): “Yo bro”
Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #1297): “Call me”
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CALL #1307 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 5, 2022, AT 11:03PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-808-0063, A PHONE USED BY JOSHUA
QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY
RICKY EVANS
Quiles: “Yo bro. Hello?”
Evans: “Hold on bro.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Hello?”
Quiles: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Hold on. I’m going to put in my headphones. I/A, shut that shit up,
relax! I/A. (Child crying in the background) Yo, you hear me bro?”
Quiles: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Alright, I’m going out.”
Quiles: “Shit, I was about to see uh if you got another jawn to send to.”
Evans: “I’m going out right now, uh.”
Quiles: “I’m stuck bro, I thought you was, I thought you was going to be able
to send like a couple extra jawns so I would be able to go all in, but
like shit.”
Evans: “So, so look bro.”
Quiles: “You get what I’m sayin though?”
Evans: “No cuz my…”
Quiles: “I be having like, that’s why like I went down. I was trying to go up.
Like, I was tryin to up my order and shit but.”
Evans: “No it wasn’t, it wasn’t, it wasn’t even about you right now. Um, it
was about my fuckin taxes ain’t came yet. They say it was supposed
to hit Friday. It didn’t hit. So that’s why I was going to throw you
some extra jawns. I just told Black the same thing. I was going to
throw cuz four and throw you like two or three. So I was like alright
let me try to work something out where I could throw all y’all some
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right now off these taxes, you feel me? Off the little tax jawn and
shit.”
Quiles: “Yeah, yeah.”
Evans: “Straight up.”
Quiles: “Yeah, cuz my situation. I’m tryin. All I, for me I could keep going up
everytime, but I gotta like put it all back in.”
Evans: “Uh huh, uh huh.”
Quiles: “And I been I/A til the end of the month. I been having I/A, you know
in the first week.”
Evans: “Yeah no, straight up. No I/A.”
Quiles: “Cuz I got all this shit to pay. So I’m like, damn now I got to go back
in and do the same order. Cuz all I got to do is boom, once I hit two,
I hit three. I can go up.”
Evans: “No, but you know. You what that means though? I know that,
because how I’m doing the same shit as you, just on another tip you
feel me? I’m doing the same shit as you because I gotta pay this and
then turn around I’m broke already. Cuz, so I’m like alright well fuck
it when the order come back in and then say something happened,
you get what I’m saying? That’s why I’m like, I’m just happy ain’t
nothing been happening cuz so I/A.”
Quiles: “Right, exactly. That’s what I’m saying cuz me look, all’s I gotta do
is from two I can hit three, once I run to three I go straight to five.
And then from five, it’s like. I can go right. I, it’s gonna be on from
there.”
Evans: “Yeah, it’s history.”
Quiles: “I/A. I’m like damn, I just gotta get the bills. It’s like you said, I’m in
the same position in the beginning of the month I had all this shit
to pay. So it was like, when I did spend for three.”
Evans: “I/A”
Quiles: “I had to spend bread, so I’m like damn now I gotta do two. I had to
spend I/A.”
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Evans: “I/A, cuz yeah. Same shit, again. I’m like fuck.”
Quiles: “Once all my shit already paid, I’m like bet now I can just run it off
and put it all back in.”
Evans: “Put it all back in. So that’s on the same I/A. Um, oh but you only
sending for two then. So you gonna only be sending for two right
now?”
Quiles: “Yeah, I gotta do it one more time and shit.”
Evans: “Yeah, no that’s cool then. You can do that, uh cuz I got somebody
sending nine right now. And they trying, I’m trying to get an account
to send it to you, you feel me?”
Quiles: “I/A”
Evans: “So I’m on that process right now. Cuz the nigger like, he just upped
his shit, he just upped his order. Cuz he just started at one and two
just now, so he like bro after I do four I’m about to turn around and
I’m about to double it up right now.”
Quiles: “Right, that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Evans: “Uh huh.”
Quiles: “Like I’m trying to get bigger, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do.”
Evans: “I/A”
Quiles: “That’s exactly what I’m trying to do, but like I said since the
beginning of the month I had to pay all this shit. But once everything
is situated, which is right after this jawn, I’m gonna be situated. I’m
gonna go from. You already know, like you said like. I’m gonna go
up from there.”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah. So even, even after this weekend. Even after this
weekend, you send me whatever you send me, hopefully my hit. My
shit hits the I/A in the morning. My shit I/A not Sunday, but
Monday.”
Quiles: “Yeah, because I thought if you would have been able to do the extra
jawns, right. What I was going to do with it, the little shit that I make
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off the jawns you throw me, I pay my shit and then the shit I grab I
can put it all back.”
Evans: “Shit yeah.”
Quiles: “I could put it all back in.”
Evans: “Put it all together, yeah. That’s what I figured that too. I figured all
that too.”
Quiles: “That’s what I was trying to do. I was like, the little jawns he send
me I’m gonna pay what I gotta pay what I make off that. Then my
jawns that I grab I’mma put all that bread right back in. So I I/A.”
Evans: “Right back in cuz.”
Quiles: “Cuz that’s I/A. Once I get my shit up, five and up I’m cool, like.
Everything, we rollin together.”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah. We gonna be boomin again though. I ain’t even sweatin
that I/A. Cuz you know I’m right here for you. I’m up for um tryin to
send you tryin to send you two jawns. I’mma, I’m gonna try to send
you just one jawn so you can send it all to one jawn so you can send
it all to. So really just send it all to mine. So I’m gonna just try to
figure out who gonna take it out for me. Alright, um…”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Have somebody else send it to me.”
Quiles: “Yeah, I’m gonna have somebody send it to your jawn here. I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah. I/A shit.”
Quiles: “Alright, yeah I just wanted to let you know like what my plan was
and shit. Like what I’m on.”
Evans: “Yeah, no I’m on the same, I’m on the same.”
Quiles: “You already know. Cuz usually I’m five, sevens, elevens.”
Evans: “I know cuz, fives, sevens, elevens and going up from there. Trust
me, I know. And I’ve been dealing with you for so long, cuz and I do
know that. So that’s why I’m like…”
Quiles: “Yeah.”
Evans: “I’m not even stressing. This little shit, we gotta get back up.”
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Quiles: “Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. I’m like, let me explain so you would
know what I’m on. Like, not playing.”
Evans: “I ain’t even stressing about that shit right now, cuz I’m like you
know what everybody gonna get back up right now within the
summertime before summer hit.”
Quiles: “Yeah, we just need everything to keep going smoothly. We gonna
get right back.”
Evans: “Yeah, everyday smoothly. Uh huh, we gonna get right back up there
bro.”
Quiles: “I/A everything going smooth, so…”
Evans: “I’m gonna be on the same page with you bro. Bro, um so you good
though. So just let me know. I’mma, I’mma let you know where to
send to, and uh…”
Quiles: “So for your jawn then…”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah. Send it to my jawn though, but uh I’m, I’mma gonna
uh figure out who I’m gonna send it to to take it off though.”
Quiles: “Alright, I got you.”
Evans: “Probably my bitch just because she’s the closest to me, but I’m
gonna see. I’m gonna see what’s up though. I got you, just send it to
my shit though.”
Quiles: “Alright, I got you.”
Evans: “Alright buddy.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Quiles: “I/A”
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CALLS #1363, 1368, 1372, 1380, 1444, 1461, 1494, 1498, 1500, 1502,
1561, 1563, 1695, 1697, 1700, 1707, 1712, 1717, 1723, 1732, 1734, 1738,
1753, 1755, 1757, 1774, 1970, AND 2121 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022
BETWEEN MARCH 6, 2022 AND MARCH 9, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT
MESSAGES BETWEEN 267-808-0063 AND 610-934-2154, PHONES USED BY
JOSHUA QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED
BY RICKY EVANS
Quiles (Call #1363): “Send to ya jawn rite?”
Quiles (Call #1368): “Yea bro”
Quiles (Call #1372): “Sent”
Quiles (Call #1380): “I got it bro”
Quiles (Call #1444): “Comin out today bro?”
Evans (Call #1461): “Waiting on my boy to bring everything”
Quiles (Call #1494): “Bro try make sure they look good last couple times was
a lot shake gone slow shit up more”
Evans (Call #1498): “Got u bro”
Quiles (Call #1500): “Comin out today?”
Evans (Call #1502): “Naw it ain't bro still waiting. On my boy he had to grab
new shipment today”
Evans (Call #1561): “Bro send Addy tonight and some sending bread bro”
Evans (Call #1563): “For tomorrow”
Quiles (Call #1695): “Joe perez
614 Foulkrod Street
Philadelphia pa 19120”
Evans (Call #1697): “Just send me the bread I'm headed up there now bro”
Quiles (Call #1700): “Ok”
Evans (Call #1707): “Yo can u shoot me 18 on these jawn I got extra”
Evans (Call #1712): “Can u give me 18 for this jawn I got extra”
Quiles (Call #1717): “Rd”
Evans (Call #1723): “Yo I need 60 more bucks br”
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Quiles (Call #1732): “Yea bro 18 coo how many extra?”
Quiles (Call #1734): “And ion got nomore bread on ma card bro im hit”
Quiles (Call #1738):
Evans (Call #1753): “one and it's the rite one baby wait till u see I sent one
extra bro”
Evans (Call #1755): “all I could scrape up for the day”
Evans (Call #1757): “I'm sending like 2 or 3 jawns on the next one”
Evans (Call #1774):
Quiles (Call #1970): “U put some in there for Black”
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Quiles (Call #2121): “??”
Based on the above calls and your affiants training, knowledge, and
experience, it is their opinion that this conversation was in reference to the
negotiation and ordering of a drug shipment, including Quiles complaining about
the quality of the last shipment. After the deal was negotiated, Evans sent a
picture of a tracking number (1Z9943920295382435) on a 15”x15”x10” package,
weighting 5lbs 11.1ozs to Joe Perez, 614 Foulkrod Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120
with expected delivery on March 10, 2022.
The conversation between Evans and Quiles continued with Evans telling
Quiles that he put an extra “jawn,” believed in this conversation by your affiants
to refer to a pound of methamphetamine, in Quiles’ package for Tryone Baker
aka “Black.” Evans also told Quiles that he was going to ship Quiles another
package.
CALLS #2123, 2148, 2150, 2155, 2157, 2174, 2176, 2178, 2299, 2303,
2305, 2309, 2312, 2314, AND 2324 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN
MARCH 9, 2022, AND MARCH 10, 2022, A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS
BETWEEN 267-808-0063 AND 610-934-2154, PHONES USED BY JOSHUA
QUILES AKA CHASE BENJII, AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
Call #2123
Evans: “What it is bro?”
Quiles: “No, Black was saying that you had put something in there for
him. Huh?”
Evans: “Yeah, um... just one jawn um... I guess, it was either or cause,
cause I remember you was telling me like you could only do 16. So
I talk to I/A like if he wanted he could get I/A.”
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Quiles: “No, when you texted me, I was like that's cool fuck it I could do
the what you told me, but yeah what...”
Evans: “Okay cause I didn't, I didn't even know that either um... I'm about
to send another, I'm about to send another two out right now bro
cause you all liked that shit so um... I'm about to go pick up the
bread right now I/A.”
Quiles: “So you sent him one.”
Evans: “I'll send him one and then I'm sending two more right now. You all
can have one-one and a piece too. I mean it really don't matter to
me, I/A we all a team nigga but...”
Quiles: “Yeah I/A.”
Evans: “Man said it don't I/A pay and, and see the way it goes, Black said
he gonna try to buy off you anyway. Like he was going to buy from
you, so I was just like alright you do what you do.”
Quiles: “Yeah, when him be whatever he be grabbing my jawns too like...”
Evans: “Yeah that's why I'm like, it's all in the same circle so he can do it
however it go we just making money together but that's it.”
Quiles: “Yeah, nah, yeah cause them little couple extras definitely help I/A
go right in all in and...”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Quiles: “and up, getting shit up.”
Evans: (Speaking over Quiles) “Um.. that, now... so I'm sending two more
right now, so if you wanna go... I'm next day-ing these though right
now. Like so, you gotta addy to send me right now you could do
that so I could just get them out right now you feel me?”
Quiles: “Alright, I'm gonna have to check now and get one. So, is.. how
many the two jawns and then two other so it's four.”
Evans: “No, no, it's three all in total cause I only send one.... oh yo, yo,
you're two jawn and one of my jawn so it's all three in total in that
box that's coming tomorrow and then, then um... the one t...t...
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today I'm sending two, two more out so it's three all together
meaning you know and that's it.”
Quiles: “Oh so he, there's one, so it's my two and then one jawn you said
give to him.”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah, if, if it was an either or situation whoever trying to
give me the eighteen at that point, what, but I didn't know.”
Quiles: (Speaking over Evans) “Oh oh I thought he said...”
Evans: “Yeah, I didn't know that you agreed to it or even told me cause I
didn't even read the text back there. All I see is “rd”, I'm like I don't
even know what that means like you feel me.”
Quiles: “Oh, I'll be writing them like alright, alright I/A.”
Evans: (Speaking over Quiles) “Yeah, yeah, I saw that and then I know
cause Mirr write that shit and I'll be like what is ready, like, what
is, what is “rd” (laughing)...”
Quiles: “Yeah.”
Evans: “And its like all ready though but I feel that but I'm like damn cuz
like I, I've seen it just now I'm like damn I see why he ask that, I'm
like, alright like me get that right real fast.”
Quiles: “Yeah but you told him with these two that to grab them jawns, or,
or what how you gonna do with these two you about to do.”
Evans: “Um... I didn't even tell cuz he had to buy it so that's all, I'm just
now just well, you’re the first nigga to call me and didn't even tell
cuz till I figured get...”
Quiles: (burps)
Evans: “everything prepared.”
Quiles: “Yeah that be a good jawn if I can run them jawns off cause that
way I, I can get a little extra bread and then I could do it for my
shit I could put it all back in cause I'm trying to get.”
Evans: “Yeah, I'll get it to you.”
Quiles: (Speaking over Evans) “Try to get my orders up.”
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Evans: (Speaking over Quiles) “Yeah, I'll get, I'll get them, I'll get them two
to you. You said that I/A I'll tell him dude I never even told Black
about it yet. I just told cuz cause I was just sending one extra with
you, with your shit, if you all, if he was gonna grab it.”
Quiles: (Speaking over Evans) “Yeah he told me I/A but he didn't tell me
how many so I was just checking. I didn't even know.”
Evans: “Yeah, yeah that's why I'm like let me just get that straight but um
yeah, but um...the other two I'm getting off today that's why I said
just send me an addy and I'll try to get them out today.”
Quiles: “Alright, I got ya.”
Evans: “Alright buddy.”
Quiles: “Alright.”
Evans: “That's for sure.”
Quiles (Call #2148): “Can you same addy u sent me yesterday”
Quiles (Call #2150): “?”
Evans (Call #2155): “Yea I could br9”
Evans (Call #2157): “Br9”
Quiles (Call #2174): “Rd”
Evans (Call #2176): “I don't think imna make it today but it's going out early
in the a.m bro I'm sending u 3 or 4 that's cool”
Call 2178
Quiles: “Yo.”
Evans: “Hey yo buddy.”
Quiles: “What do you need.”
Evans: “Hey three or four jawns coming out tomorrow for you.”
Quiles: “Alright bet.”
Evans: “Okay actually because...”
Quiles: “Yeah, I just checked the jawns from yesterday it's already in Philly
but...”
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Evans: “Yeah, I already tried.”
Quiles: (Speaking over Evans) “Just, just...”
Evans: “You said what.”
Quiles: “This jawn you’re doing for tomorrow too right, so it should be
uh...”
Evans: “Yeah, that's, that's coming tomorrow um... yeah, that's coming
tomorrow, I ain't, ain't, ain't it my... it wouldn't be today huh?”
Quiles: “That's what I'm saying you didn't do two-day right, for this jawn?”
Evans: “Yeah, I did two-day for that jawn, so yeah it'll be there tomorrow
I/A.”
Quiles: “I/A your jawn right now.”
Evans: “Oh, I'm not too bad, I'm next daying because I wanted to get them
before Friday, I don't want it to wait over the weekend.”
Quiles: “Alright, yeah, alright bet.”
Evans: “I/A um... I/A and then it's mine so and they ain't checking
nothing you know.”
Quiles: “Yeah.”
Evans: “I don't know but a nigga ain't expecting nothing none like that,
not next day anyway so...”
Quiles: “Yeah, nah that seems straight.”
Evans: “Yeah, but I thought I just let you know that you got three or four
coming you can do what you want with them give Black actually
one of them however that you wanna play that out but I sending to
you. I never told cuz about nothing so I'm just sending it to you,
you do what you do.”
Quiles: “Alright, bet I got you.”
Evans: “Alright, oh for sure.”
Quiles: “Alright bro.”
Evans: “Bye.”
Quiles (Call #2299): “It touched bro”
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Quiles (Call #2303): “U sendin that today?”
Evans (Call #2305): “I'm here tryna send it now they talking crazy cuz”
Evans (Call #2309): “Aye br0 can u send me A 100 on cash app”
Evans (Call #2312): “Nvm bro I took care of it”
Evans (Call #2314):
Evans (Call #2324): “I just got good results on shit I just sent u from my side
of town u should be velvet on these packs”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, your affiants opine that the above transcribed calls and text
messages are in reference to two methamphetamine shipments from Ricky Evans
to Joshua Quiles with portions of the methamphetamine expected to be delivered
to Tyrone Baker once they were in Quiles’ possession. The first shipment, paid
in advance by Quiles, arrived on Thursday, March 10, 2022, and contained, what
your affiants believe to be, three pounds of crystal methamphetamine. The
second package was sent to Quiles without payment, with Evans expecting to be
paid after Quiles sold it. The second package was expected to contain at least
three pounds of crystal methamphetamine with an expected delivery date of
Saturday, March 12, 2022. Evans followed up by telling Quiles that he tested the
drugs and received good results, which your affiants opine was referring to Evans
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customers, including Quiles and Baker, complaining about the quality of the last
batch of drugs Evans sent.
Surveillance of Package Delivery – Thursday, March 10, 2022
On Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 10:34AM, Joshua Quiles was observed
arriving in front of 614 Foulkrod Street, Philadelphia driving the Honda Accord
bearing PA registration LSB2751. Quiles remained inside the vehicle until a UPS
truck arrived on Foulkrod Street at 12:52PM, parking across the street from 614
Foulkrod Street and Quiles’ vehicle. After the truck arrived, Quiles exited the
Honda wearing a red jacket and walked up to the front door of 614 Foulkrod
Street, knocking on the door, and then going inside. Once Quiles was inside, the
UPS driver dropped a box that appeared consistent in size to the 15”x15”10”
package sent by Evans. A check of UPS tracking number 1Z9943920295382435
confirmed that it had been delivered on March 10, 2022 at 12:53PM.
Quiles then exited the house, retrieved the box, reentered the house
momentarily, then exited the house with box in hand. Quiles walked back to his
Honda Accord, placed the box in the trunk, and drove away from 614 Foulkrod
Street.
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Surveillance units followed Quiles who drove directly to 586 E. Sanger
Street, Philadelphia as he had done previously after receiving UPS packages sent
by Ricky Evans. Surveillance watched Quiles park in front of 586 Sanger, exit
the vehicle, retrieve the box from the trunk, and exit the front door of 586 Sanger
Street with the box, using a key to unlock the door.
Surveillance of Tyrone Baker – March 10, 2022
At approximately 2:50PM, Tyrone Baker was observed by fixed surveillance
leaving 57 Melrose Avenue in his white Dodge Charger bearing PA registration
LMS5730. Baker was followed via electronic surveillance toward 586 E. Sanger
Street where surveillance was still set up on Quiles. Surveillance watched as
Baker arrived, parking in the rear alley behind 586 Sanger Street and entering
the residence through the rear door. A short time later, Baker exited the
residence, placing a bag in the trunk of his car. As Baker was observed leaving
by surveillance, he contacted Robert Smarra Jr. to inform him that he had just
picked up product and was on the way to sell him some. Refer to Robert Smarra
Jr. deal number nine for further details.
Summary of Quiles shipment
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that Joshua Quiles received a shipment believed to contain methamphetamine
(Shipment #4) from Ricky Evans, again transporting the shipment to Sanger
Street, which Quiles subsequently delivered, in part, to Tyrone Baker.
In addition, Evans shipped a second package (Call #2314 – shown above),
12”x12”x12” weighing 4.5 pounds delivered to Joe Perez, 614 Foulkrod Street,
(Shipment #5) believed to contain methamphetamine on Thursday, March 10,
2022, to Quiles with an expected delivery date of Saturday, March 12, 2022.
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SHIPMENTS TO SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL”
During the course of this investigation, Detectives identified packages from
California that were shipped to addresses associated with a male called “Papi
Buhl” by Ricky Evans. “Papi Buhl” has been identified as Shakeem Johnson. The
court ordered wire interceptions and surveillance led to the identification of the
following packages:
JOHNSON SHIPMENT #1 – 5.60LBS PACKAGE
DELIVERED ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022
CALL #37 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 7:35PM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM
JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” FROM 424-744-2079, A PHONE NUMBER
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Yeah you had… you had get it out today?”
Evans: “Yeah umm I’m right here, right now. Hey what I was gonna ask
you would you uh… do you want to do a three day or no?”
Johnson: “You said do I what?”
Evans: “I/A would you mind doing a three day?”
Johnson: “Uhh I guess I/A gonna say who right?”
Evans: “Huh?”
Johnson: “Til…til Tuesday you saying?”
Evans: “Yeah. Eh what would that be? For the three day right now? Would
it be Wednesday or Thursday? For the little one. Thursday.”
Johnson: “You said what?”
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Evans: “He said- ‘cause he said it not leaving out today it only gonna leave
out on Monday. But it’ll be Monday for Thursday.”
Johnson: “Damn.”
Evans: “I/A the other one like 228 bro.”
Johnson: “Oh man this gonna fuck me over, I guess tho bro you hear me?”
Evans: “Yeah that’s the only bro…that’s the only thing. And then I’m short
right now umm two packages right now so I’m trying to figure out
who gonna go and who not. You feel me?”
Johnson: “Alright. Alright just- alright cool.”
Evans: “Alright so that- yeah so you good with it? You cool with it? I’m just
making sure before I/A. Cause I could have waited ‘til Monday if
you could have I/A Monday.”
Johnson: “Alright bro yeah, I- I’ll wait.”
Evans: “Alright cool so yeah it ain’t going out today.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that call transcribed above is related to a shipment of drugs by Ricky Evans to
Shakeem Johnson. In the call, Evans told Johnson that his purchase was being
sent via 3-day shipping. Evans tells Johnson that he is sending multiple
packages and is short on the cash to use for the shipments. Johnson agreed to
the 3-day shipping and Evans replied the package is likely to arrive Thursday.
CALL #234 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022, AT
4:16PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED
BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” FROM 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Yo I/A.”
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Johnson: “I/A huh? You said what?”
Evans: “I said I/A.”
Johnson: “Should of. What you got going on?”
Evans: “I/A Super Bowl game.”
Johnson: “Oh shit I forgot its up there. Hey look, I…I…I called you the other
day cause I might send you some more money. You heard me?
Cause I don’t want you to…ya mean? Like I don’t want…uhh… I
wanted…ya mean?”
Evans: “Yeah yeah I don’t need none.”
Johnson: “So I’m gonna I/A but yeah uh uh…uh uh…probably don’t need
you to send…send off until probably like Tuesday, Wednesday
cause I’m gonna send you some more.”
Evans: “Ah I see what you saying you just don’t. But see that one is
already wrapped up and ready to go I/A.”
Johnson: “Ohh shit, damn alright then fuck it.”
Evans: “I got it. But I take it out the box and just put it in another one.
But still. Uh. Just like shit that one’s already taped up ready to go
too. I/A.”
Johnson: “Yeah I feel you. Uh yeah what’s up? What you got going on?”
Evans: “Ah shit bro I was gonna sit back and go eat this little bar-b-que
cuz. Some… one of my uh folks having some little shit… I mean a
Super Bowl party.”
Johnson: “I forgot, I forgot that, I forgot that the game was out there ya hear
me?”
Evans: “For real that shit I/A another two hours man.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
Evans: “I/A that shit was blowing up last night. We was out last night
going crazy.”
Johnson: “So I saw that shit. That shit…”
Evans: “Hold on, hold on this is my barber, hold on, hold, this is my
barber, hold on.”
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the phone call transcribed above is related to a shipment of illegal drugs by
Ricky Evans to Johnson. More specifically, Johnson wants to purchase more
drugs than they had previously discussed.
CALL #240 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022, AT
4:22PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED
BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” FROM 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson: “What’s up foo... what’s up bro?”
Evans: “Hey buddy. Hey what day was you trying to send out for?”
Johnson: “Probably like Tuesday or Wednesday. I had to uhh… make one
more play like I…I had stumbled across something you hear me?”
Evans: “Oh ok.”
Johnson: “So now, so now that I’m get- ya mean, in the process of getting,
get uh ya mean, I was going to send everything, send everything
over so I can get more. You feel me?”
Evans: “Alright, I see what you saying. Alright, so let’s do that another
day.”
Johnson: “So that’s what I was saying. Yeah.”
Evans: “Alright that’s cool. Just making sure bro. Uh, so I can have
everything set for this week just to see what I got rolling for the
week.”
Johnson: “Yeah so I…I’m, I’m trying to get like, trying to get like five for real,
for real, you hear me?”
Evans: “Yeah. And I ain’t, don’t even sweat it bro you got, you got, you got,
you got the CashApp ready, already, I already got CashApp ready
for you.”
Johnson: “Alright say less.”
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Evans: “Oh good, I got you.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the call transcribed above is a follow up to Call #234 and the shipment of
drugs by Evans to Johnson.
CALL #493 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, AT
5:24PM, AN OUTGOING TEXT MESSAGE TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED
BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” A PHONE USED BY RICKY
EVANS
Evans (Call #493): “Hit me back bro”
CALL #502 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, AT
6:13PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED
BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans: “What it do, bro?”
Johnson: “Yo.”
Evans: “Yo.”
Johnson: “Yeah I was trying to save you something I/A earlier, but I couldn’t
wait around long enough, I had to shoot out of town, so Imma have
to do it in the morning.”
Evans: “Alright that’s cool.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright, yeah, um.”
Johnson: “Are you gonna be able to send em all out tomorrow?”
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Evans: “Yeah I can send em all out tomorrow, if you get it uh, if you get it
out early, so I can have somebody – If you can send it tonight so I
can have somebody just take it out in the morning, that be cool too.”
Johnson: “Alright that’s cool.”
Evans: “But if not, just send me in the morning, and like early in the
morning so I can just have them take it out, like at least like around
eleven or something.”
Johnson: “I got you.”
Evans: “You know they still gotta go to the bank and shit, that’s why like, if
you send it tonight, it should be cool. Better than if you send it
tomorrow in the morning.”
Johnson: “Alright yeah, I got you.”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Johnson: “I got you.”
Evans: “Alright, fa sure.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
CALLS #503, 542, 545, 548, 550, 552, 555, 548, 561, 563, 595, AND 602
ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, THROUGH
FEBRUARY 16, 2022, BETWEEN 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans (Call #503): “Let me know how many cash app and shit u need
to send everything off”
Evans (Call #542): “U gone send in the a.m bro”
Evans (Call #545.): “So I could have everything line up and ready for
tomorrow”
Johnson (Call #548): “I’m trying send it now”
Johnson (Call #550): “I just got to prolly”
Evans (Call #552): “Ok bro here go one cash app u can send to”
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Evans (Call #555): “$bolivar55”
Evans (Call #558): “That’s mom’s shit”
Johnson (Call #561): “Okay”
Evans (Call #563): “U could do mines next then if we need a couple
more I still got some”
Evans (Call #595): “Yo bro”
Evans (Call #602): “Did u send out”
CALL #617 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 16, 2022, AT
1:45PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson: “Yo Brodie.”
Evans: “Yo Brodie, what’s goin on?”
Johnson: “Yeah, I had uh. I got everything on the. I had got everything on the
card, but I had somebody else trying to bring me some money too.
So I was, cuz I only got like twenty-six I/A. Twenty-six-fifty on there.
Somebody else about to bring me another like two-thousand. Four-
thousand. So I can get the five piece, I didn’t want to just get two,
you hear me?”
Evans: “Yeah, I hear you. Hey, uh what I was going to say. Send whatever
you can send right now. Cuz I am about to go take out some money
right now. Somebody else just send me um twenty-five-hundred
yesterday, so I’m trying to get that off right now. And you could just
get that, or I could get it all off or I/A. So I could grab however many
right now. Um, even when you still send me the rest of your bread.
Cuz I got somebody else who want to take that off, so send me as
much as you could on this one so they could take that off too, you
feel me?”
Johnson: “Yeah, no, but I just. I didn’t want you, huh?
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Evans: “No, I’m not gonna send nothing until you tell me to send, but I’m
saying as far as grabbing everything and get it out the way. Yeah, let
me get that out the way.”
Johnson: “Alright, I’mma call you right back.”
Evans: “Yeah, cuz I don’t need to, I don’t need to send it until you like fully
fully ready. But you look, if you ready ready, then just me know. But
right now, right now I just grab everything I can grab off the bank.”
Johnson: “I/A.”
Evans: “Including. Yeah, including your bread so I don’t be for the next
person it don’t be too much if I got take out forty-five or five-
thousand. You get what I’m saying? Cuz you grabbing.”
Johnson: “I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah, that shit gonna be too much for one person so she gonna
already gonna be complaining, so my at well just do half and half.”
Johnson: “Gotcha. I’ll call you right back.”
Evans: “Oh alright, gotchu.”
Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Johnson and Evans were discussing holding off on shipping the
drugs as Johnson wanted to purchase additional drugs before Evans shipped
them.
CALL #2094 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 21, 2022, AT 5:49
PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE
USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Yo bro, I fuckin up, I never knew I put this shit on airplane mode
nigga.”
Johnson: “(Laughing) yeah uh.”
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Evans: “That shit pissed me off.”
Johnson: “Imma have, Imma uh, send you enough for three of em, either later
today or tomorrow morning, no, no later than tomorrow morning.”
Evans: “Alright, just let me know, Imma give you the Cash App.”
Johnson: “Yeah would you be able to send it tomorrow?”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Johnson: “Alright cool, so how much you to send all together? Extra?”
Evans: “Um, uh what you mean after? For, for the sending and shit?”
Johnson: “For the yeah.”
Evans: “Uhh.”
Johnson: “So I can have everything?’
Evans: “Like I told you… oh like two hundred extra.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “I told you just two hundred extra bro.”
Johnson: “Alright, alright I got you.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Your affiants believe that the above voice call between Evans and Johnson
was regarding the shipping cost to add to the payment so Evans would ship the
drugs to the unknown male.
CALL #2233, 2235, 2241, 2244, 2247, 2296, 2298, 2299, 2303, 2313, AND
2318 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 22, 2022, BETWEEN
10:51AM AND 12:00PM, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES AND VOICE CALLS
BETWEEN 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA
“PAPI BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Johnson (Call #2233): “Send to ya mom & yours ”
Johnson (Call #2235): “I’m ready send you something soon”
Evans (Call #2241): “Yea”
Evans (Call #2244): “Send to both $bolivar55”
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Evans (Call #2247): “ND mines”
Johnson (Call #2296): “Yo bro”
Call #2298
Evans: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Is Ester the first name?”
Evans: “Yeah, Ester Bolivar.”
Johnson: “Alright, alright cool. I’m sending, I’m sending it.”
Evans: “Alright, and then I/A.”
Call #2299
Evans: “Yo.”
Johnson: “Yeah, yeah so I had, I had did that.”
Evans: “Huh?”
Johnson: “I had did that.”
Evans: “Alright, I/A. Alright, so Bolivar?”
Johnson: “Yeah, and yours.”
Evans: “Alright, let me see mine. (Pause) I got it.”
Johnson: “Alright, bet.”
Evans: “1.9.”
Johnson: “I/A”
Evans: “1.9. And then, what you send her?”
Johnson: “The two.”
Evans: “Two, alright.”
Johnson: “You ready to do it today.”
Evans: “Huh, yeah I’mma get it out today. Um, I’m about to hurry up and
go grab it out in a little bit. I’m about to see where she at.”
Johnson: “And you’re gonna send the other one, right?”
Evans: “Yeah, I got everything bro I/A.”
Johnson: “Alright, bet. Good lookin.”
Evans: “Uh.”
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Johnson: “Just hit me in a, just hit me in a couple then.”
Evans: “Yeah, you already know. Same program.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Johnson (Call #2303): “4504 regatta circle norristown pa 19401”
Evans (Call #2313): “I got it”
Johnson (Call #2318): “That’s a bet “
During the above communications between Evans and Johnson, they
discussed sending payment via CashApp to $Cashtag $bolivar55, associated
with Evans’ mother, Esther Bolivar, and Evans’ CashApp account. Johnson
subsequently said that he sent $1900 to Evans’ CashApp account and $2000 to
Bolivar’s and then sent a delivery address in Norristown, PA. Based on your
affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that Johnson and
Evans were negotiating and discussing a drug transaction and then Johnson
provided the address for Evans so he could ship the drugs.
CALLS #2471, 2503, 2514, 2521, 2522, 2536, 2538, AND 2546 ON
DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022, ON FEBRUARY 22, 2022, BETWEEN 3:38PM AND
6:46PM, A SERIES OF VOICE CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN
267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI
BUHL,” AND 424-744-2079, A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Call #2471
Johnson: “Hello.”
Evans: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Alright, I sent 160 from yesterday too. Umm cause I got two
mailed out I had both your niggas send me the same amount of
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bread but both you all take it, both you all take out 150, took,
tookin out of it, just take it out of the batch.”
Johnson: “Should of got, should of got it tookin out of what, the whole
thing?”
Evans: “Yeah, uh to take out the bank, it...they charged me 160 for uh
cash app.”
Johnson: “Oh shit, damn.”
Evans: “Yeah, this is what I/A this is what I’m over here going through
right now. I’m like see this is what I begin to asked you right here.
Now i’m short to pay I’m, I’m still, I’m still short and then uh and
there still short to pay it too so it’s like a bulk uh it’s like a bulk
situation. I’m just like mother fucker cause...”
Johnson: “Alright so you say how much to send you?”
Evans: “Um so send me, um send me just 180 bro. Send me 180.”
Johnson: “Yeah I see it cause I, I had someone send me cash app so let me
see how much is left.”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Johnson: “120 left.”
Evans: “Alright just send that right now and then try to um do that on the
next one. Um I’mma go put a little extra with it right now cause I’m
about to have my man send me another 200 right now too.”
Johnson: “Alright, I just sent it, you hear me.”
Evans: “Yeah, I gotcha.”
Johnson: “Yeah, how long that take, it’s gonna be two days right?”
Evans: “Yeah, he going out for the day. I’mma on my way right now. Um
I’m just now grabbing all the bread cause I have to... um like I said
I get you and another nigga I/A.”
Johnson: (Speaking over Evans) “Yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m
alright with you.”
Evans: “So that, uh...”
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Johnson: “Yeah, it’s going, it’s going up from here, you already know, you
hear me.”
Evans: “No, I already know but that’s my, my, see both, both both you all
niggas telling me the same shit so I already know how this shit’s
gonna go I just like to get everything out right now so that...”
Johnson: (Speaking over Evans) “Yeah and I appreciate you, you hear me?”
Evans: “So that shit can be in process with me for the, for the next week
we already got that in process everybody got their orders up.”
[Evans and U/M speaking over each other]
Johnson: “Alright thanks.”
Evans: “Because I’ve been dealing cash app shit because the orders been
low cause of the lose that everybody took, you feel me?”
Johnson: “Right, I’m with you.”
Evans: (Speaking over U/M) “Uh hun so now we, we, back in my action
and we everybody back in motion cause of they say everybody
saying the same shit like nigga got to pick this shit back up man.”
Johnson: “Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.”
Evans: “Like this shit boom and shaking again cuz (laughing).”
Johnson: “Yeah, right, you feel me but you know what, nah, but you, so um
what you, you gonna next day it right?”
Evans: “Uh, yeah I could next day yours. I could really next day yours if
you wanted.”
Johnson: “Yeah yeah cause uh I, I, I needed it though I got some shit set up
you hear me.”
Evans: “No that’s cool.”
Johnson: “I don’t wanna miss the play.”
Evans: “No that’s cool, I, I don’t want you to miss that one either, I do the
next day for you.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
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Evans: “Alright.”
Evans (Call #2503): “Yo bro “
Call #2522
Evans: “You better pay your God Damn bill.”
Johnson: “Yo bro.”
Evans: “Hey yeah bro just if you could try to just get at least like 140 off
for me for the, for the day uh...with a little extra for the jawn.”
Johnson: “Send what?”
Evans: “I said just try to send me like 120, 140 for the, for the, for the
uh...end of the day jawn, cause you know. I mean I’m putting a
little extra with the 120 with that shit too.”
Johnson: “I sent, I sent you the uh...the money I had extra on there.”
Evans: “Yeah the one um... the 120, your 120 and I still had to put one, I
only had 240 when I got up there.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
Evans: “So that’s why I said and I just additional 120 on top of your
shit.”
Johnson: “Hold on, hold on, hold on real quick.”
Evans: “As a matter of fact nah, just a hundred even, it’s just a hundred
even, it’s not even that.”
Johnson: “Damn.”
Evans: “I’ll give it to you today. Exactly, cause that was your extra 40.”
[U/F in the background talking (I/A)]
Johnson: “What I sent, I sent for I sent 3 something, what is it, 3750 was the
total and I sent you 4, 420.”
Evans: “Yeah that’s why I said I don’t think it is... I don’t think that’s you
then, I think it’s my other boy who shorted me or something.
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Cause I’m, I’m pretty sure that you probably sent me the right
amount or just enough.”
Johnson: “Yeah then like cause the extra one, the one, the one, I sent you
the first time was for the extra 200, then I sent you another 120,
that’s 320 I sent you.”
Evans: (Talking to someone in the background) “I/A your right.”
Evans: (Talking to U/M) “But 320, but 160 got taken out of the jawn
now.”
Johnson: “Oh shit, but I ain’t even, cause I ain’t even have no more money or
that jawn, you hear me?”
Evans: “Yeah, nah but that was the reason, that’s why I said it was short
because the 160 got taken already back out of your shit. You send
me that 200 and 160 got taken right back out of it because I had
to take it all out. You get what I’m saying? So you sending me
another 120, that’s 160 taken out of your shit that’s, that’s one,
plus the 120 you sent me, that’s, that’s 160 that’s already
originally that you send, send it. You get what I’m saying?”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Now that’s only 160, we put it back at even if, if I, if I did it like
that like I’m gonna explain it to you so even if yo send me that
much money just because 160 got taken out of your shit it’s, it’s
the reason why I was getting turned back around on you just
cause of that but if it wasn’t for that 160 you wouldn’t of taken a
loss, you would have sent me over the amount of what I needed,
you get what I’m saying?”
Johnson: “Right, I’m with you.”
Evans: “Alright now, now, now, but, but, back, back, back to even it would
be like with the change left off it would been uh 100 even, because
that’s already what 180 down with 160 you get me? That’s why I
said send 120 cause I know the mathematics have to go like, like,
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something like that within that range of you on, on like 120 left off
because of how much got tookin out uh...when I first withdrawal.”
Johnson: “Damn, I wish cause there’s no way.”
Evans: (Speaking over U/M) “No, but it’s not, it’s not no thing that dude,
you know, I’m not defending.”
Johnson: “I can meet you in the back I/A you hear me?”
Evans: “They’re back in until I sit that’s all I’m letting you, like if you can’t
do it today Sid try to do it for me one of them days that somebody.”
Johnson: (Speaking over Evans) “No, I got you.”
Evans: “I/A”
Johnson: “Oh yeah and just, and just um and just make sure...”
Evans: (Speaking over U/M) “It’s just a C-note and I/A bout to put too
much on it I/A but just, just, just send me a C-note whenever you
could bro.”
Johnson: “Gotcha.”
Evans: “Alright, that’s an easy call but I/A getting out of the way right
now. Come on we could go back up there.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
Evans (Call #2536):
Evans (Call #2538): “Yours straight”
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Call #2546
Evans: “I/A”
Johnson: “I gonna say we’ll put like seven eight on there.”
Evans: “Oh that’s who I was just on the phone with right now that bitch
ass nigger just hung up but I’m trying to have that nigger just send
me some money just now he hung up....laughing I was trying have
him send me some money while you over here talking about
sending him some money, that nigger I’m over here trying have cuz
send me the money he over here acting like a bitch I’m like you
bitch ass nigger it’s only eighty I/A naw but I ain’t got Zelle though
so that’s…”
Johnson: “Yea.”
Evans: “Right now, do you feel me I’m just like I’m tryin hurry up to do get
both these bitches out today, I, I wanted to send you the three I got
right now because I wasn’t able to make it to that nigger’s shit
today and I’m like.”
Johnson: “You could, you couldn’t, I would of you heard me.”
Evans: “Bro I know and I wanted, I wanted to do it right now but he, he
like bro I’m tryin to get the eighty on right now but I’m still sitting
here at this place bro been an hour since I been told cuz to get the
money on here and he over here moving slower than but he move
slow just to text me back, he’ll wait two hours to text me back and
be like oh here go the addy or here go this and it’s like bro c’mon.”
Johnson: “Yea and yea that’s why I was on that shit today you heard me I
made sure I sent that shit to all in order.”
Evans: “Yea that’s what I’m saying y’all order wasn’t fucked up today it
was cuz I think he fucked me up with my cash cause I think he
sent two hundred less than what he was suppose to send cause I
need oh he didn’t send the money bro so we all suppose to have
like I was suppose to have like some seventy some altogether right
seventy eight um thirty nine and thirty nine bro I was suppose
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estimated total but when I when I come back to everything I only
got seventy four or seventy three in my in my hand, so I’m like
damn cuz I’m like so…”
Johnson: “But they...but they took the money from the cash app and he set
two hundred extra so that shit threw you off.”
Evans: “Threw me off, so when when you threw me send me the one
twenty it really threw me off cause now I’m trying keep up to like
what what was the count at... and then it’s like.”
Johnson: “Right.”
Evans: “Then it’s like ugh dis getting shipped off and then I’m like fuck
cuz.”
Johnson: “Right...but yea ah but yea I, I send you cause I got a little good
order tomorrow morning hopefully everything go through and I
should be I’m trying to get right back with you you heard me.”
Evans: “I know bro, I know cuz, I know.”
Johnson: “So I, so I let you, I just wanted to I figure I/A.”
Evans: “Ah yea let me figure that out right now while Imma, Imma call you
right back, Imma call you right back to let you that’s a go cause
Imma gonna send one more on top of whatever you getting Imma
send you like one or two more cause just put...”
Johnson: “I got you.”
Evans: “I’m about, I’ll just tell my boy to slide me another one too and I
was the extra one I was but I couldn’t have waited on it today I
wasn’t I wasn’t wait on that shit today so I just sent your four.”
Johnson: “I feel you, Alright so yea I will tryin deal with you soon like right
back.”
Evans: “Alright I got you. Let me try to figure that shit out so you can send
a large amount.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Evans: “Alright.”
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SURVEILLANCE ON REGATTA CIRCLE ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Surveillance officers, including Detectives Vinter, Fedak, Wood, Lavin,
Fuentes, Stanley and Daywalt were dispatched to The Point at Plymouth Metting
Apartments, Regatta Circle on February 23, 2022, starting at approximately
8:00AM. At approximately 9:00AM, Detective Fuentes observed the driver of a
UPS delivery truck place a package into a secured storage locker near building
2200 of the complex. At 9:53AM, UPS tracking information for
#1Z9943920199911821 was marked delivered by placement in a “locker.”
A check of this tracking number through UPS records showed that it was
mailed at Box City Inc. #2, 12800 Victory Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91606
and addressed to Steven Boggs, 4504 Regatta Circle, Norristown, PA 19401.
At 5:08PM, a black male was observed by fixed surveillance at the drop
box area. This male had just arrived operating a black Cadillac, with dark tint,
displaying Pennsylvania Registration LRV-2255. An inquiry made on the
registration through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation showed the
registration displayed on a 2017 Cadillac CT6, registered to Shionna Alexis Nicte
Campbell, 4700 City Avenue, Apartment 9303, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fixed
electronic surveillance observed the male retrieve a box from one of the drop
boxes. Minutes later, the male got back into the Cadillac with the box and was
followed by surveillance to a drive through at a Wendy’s, located at 1013 Ridge
Avenue, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, arriving at approximately 5:23PM.
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Surveillance followed the Cadillac to the Wawa, located at 1960 John Fries
Highway, Quakertown, Pennsylvania at 5:54 PM. The driver of the Cadillac exited
his vehicle, walked over to a dark colored Ford Edge, New York Registration HXJ-
5405. At 5:56PM, Detective Vinter observed him get into the driver’s seat of the
Ford Edge. An inquiry made on the registration through the New York
Department of Transportation shows the registration displayed on a 2007 Ford
Edge, registered to Kenny J. Emeigh (Date of Birth: 2/6/1982), 241 Perry Pond
Road, Narrowsburg, New York.
At 6:04PM, Detective Vinter observed the driver of the Cadillac walked
back to his vehicle and got into the driver’s seat. The Cadillac left the area and
was followed by surveillance. Detective Vinter walked by the Ford Edge and
observed a white female in the rear seat. Detective Vinter then observed a white
male and white female exit the Wawa and get into the Ford Edge. The white male
got into the driver’s seat. The white male driver appeared to be in his forties.
At approximately 6:50PM, surveillance followed the Cadillac to a 7-11,
located at 5632 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 6:54PM, Detective
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Wood observed a front seat passenger exit the Cadillac. At 6:57PM, the passenger
returned to the Cadillac’s front passenger seat.
At 7:00PM, Detective Fuentes observed the Cadillac pull into the 7-11,
located at 6101 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Detective Lavin and
Detective Wood observed two black males and a small child (approximately 4-5
years of age) exit the Cadillac and go into the 7-11. They returned shortly
thereafter and left in the Cadillac. At 7:13PM, the Cadillac pulled away, drove a
short distance, turned around in a driveway and returned to the 7-11. The driver
went into the 7-11 for a short time.
At 7:18PM, surveillance followed the Cadillac to the Apex Apartments,
located at 4601 Flat Rock Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Detective Lavin,
Detective Daywalt, and Detective Wood observed the Cadillac pull into the
apartment building parking area, turn around and park on the street. At 7:21PM,
Detective Lavin observed the driver, who had earlier retrieved the box from the
drop box located at the Point at Plymouth Meeting Apartments, get out of the
Cadillac carrying a bag and holding the hand of the child. Detective Lavin
observed. the front seat passenger get out of the Cadillac carrying a brown
cardboard box. Detective Daywalt observed them walk into the Apex Apartments.
Based on the above court ordered intercepted calls, the tracking
information sent by Evans to Shakeem Johnson, and surveillance on Regatta
Circle, it is your affiants’ opinion that a package was mailed from Evans in
California to Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania containing drugs.
After the package was picked up by the driver of the black Cadillac, he was
followed to the Quakertown Wawa where, based on your affiants training,
knowledge, and experience, he met with another vehicle which was consistent
with a drug transaction.
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TYRONE BAKER AKA “BLACK” AKA “BAKE” AKA
“OTMBLACK215”: 38-1 E.D. 2022 & 38-6 E.D. 2022
The Honorable Judge Megan McCarthy King of the Pennsylvania Superior
Court signed Docket 38-1 E.D. 2022 (Issued on Thursday, January 27, 2022,
and extended for 30-days on February 25, 2022) related to phone number 215-
980-1764 and Docket 38-6 E.D. 2022 (Issued on Friday, February 16, 2022)
related to phone number 267-670-4429, utilized by Tyrone Baker. Based on
communication intercepted from these phone numbers, both numbers were
identified as being used by Tyrone Baker in furtherance of his drug trafficking
activities.
During the court ordered interceptions and surveillance of Tyrone Baker,
the following sub-dealers and/or customers were identified:
SUB-DEALERS/CUSTOMERS
Daniel Allen: Oxycodone dealer and marijuana sub-dealer of Baker
operating out of the East Lansdowne area of Delaware County
Darrell Carter: Customer of Baker
David Cronauer: Methamphetamine sub-dealer of Baker – currently
incarcerated
Female, believed to be Valerie DiCicco: Customer of Baker
Anthony Guasperini: Customer of Baker
Maurice Jiggetts: Customer of Baker from Baltimore, Maryland
Samir Parrish-Starr: Customer of Baker
Linda Schmids: Customer of Baker
Robert Smarra Jr.: Methamphetamine sub-dealer of Baker operating out
of the Berlin Township area of Camden County, New Jersey
Zachary Smith: Methamphetamine and marijuana sub-dealer of Baker
operating out of Philadelphia
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Male, believed to be Pat Vahey: Customer of Baker
Male, “John Wayne”: Customer of Baker
The following sections provide more details as to the intercepted
conversations regarding Baker’s criminal activities.
CALL #312 ON DOCKET 38-1-E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 29, 2022, AT
10:20AM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER, TO 484-509-1510
00:02 - 00:07
Google recording: “Hello please state your name after the tone and Google
Voice will try to connect you.”
Baker: “Tyrone Baker.”
Your affiants know through their training, knowledge, and experience, that
Google Voice gives users a phone number for calls, texts, and voicemails. One of
the features of Google Voice is that the Google Voice user can screen calls prior
to answering them. The call screening feature from Google Voice allows users to
answer an incoming call, hear the recorded name and determine to take the call
or send it to voicemail. Users can also block the call if it is spam.
In the above excerpt of the outgoing phone voice call, Baker called phone number
484-509-1510, which based on the conversation is a Google Voice phone
number. The Google Voice user is using the call screening feature and prompts
Baker to state his name. Baker responded by providing his name, “Tyrone
Baker.” This further supports your affiants’ belief that Tyrone Baker is the user
of phone number 215-980-1764.
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“MONEY MAKER” PHONE
Following the previously mentioned communication between Ricky Evans
and Tyrone Baker about Baker leaving his “money maker” behind in Los Angeles
and Evans’ shipment of it to Baker, your affiants decided to attempt to take
possession of the phone, download its contents, and deliver the phone to Baker
while Baker remained unaware that his phone was temporarily seized by law
enforcement.
On February 8, 2022, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Diana
Anhalt approved a search warrant to seize the parcel, open, and seize the
cellphone contained within the UPS parcel identified by Tracking
#1Z9943921392715800, a 9.00-inch by 7.00-inch by 7.00-inch package
weighing approximately 0.66 pounds addressed to Tyrone Baker, 57 Melrose
Avenue, Lansdale, PA 19050 from the UPS Facility at the Philadelphia airport.
The package was subsequently seized and opened. Inside the box,
Detective Rook located a black LG Android with a cracked screen surrounded by
packing peanuts.
On February 8, 2022, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge
Virgil B. Walker approved a search warrant to download the contents, for date
range March 2021 to February 8, 2022, of the cellphone located inside the UPS
parcel. Detective Rick Beaghley of the Abington Township Police Department and
Detective Jay Nakahara of the Upper Merion Police Department used Cellebrite
software to download the contents of the cellphone. Detective Nakahara then
generated a report for date range March 1, 2021, to February 8, 2022, which was
turned over to Detectives Rook and Laverty.
After downloading the contents of the LG Android cellphone, assigned
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phone number 267-670-4429, the cellphone was repackaged in the original UPS
box and at approximately 3:18PM Detective Nakahara, acting in an undercover
capacity, delivered the package to the recipient address, 57 Melrose Avenue, East
Lansdowne, PA. It should be noted that at the time of the delivery, Baker’s white
Dodge Charger was backed into the driveway of the house, and Baker’s phone
was communicating with the cell phone tower in close proximity to the house,
leading your affiants to believe that Baker was inside 57 Melrose Avenue.
CALL #3144 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 AND CALL #45 ON DOCKET 38-5
E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 7:50 PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO
215-980-1764, A PHONE NUMBER USED BY TYRONE BAKER, FROM 424-
744-2079, A NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS
00:00 – 00:35
Baker: “Yo.”
Evans: “(laughing) what up my guy?”
Baker: “Aint too much bro what’s going on with you?”
Evans: “Ahh shit man, did you ever get your phone bro?”
Baker: “Yeah, I told you I been had my phone bro.”
Evans: “Ohhh, I/A shit, I never knew I was just making sure, cause I was
up at the joint right now sending some shit off. I said let me call
this nigga make sure he got his phone, cause I remember you told
me you got your jawn, but the phone still crazy cause when I
looked it was coming the next day or some shit.”
During the above excerpt from the phone call between Baker and Evans,
Evans asked Baker if he ever received his phone. Baker responded that he did.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience coupled with the
facts of this investigation, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker was confirming
receipt of his “money maker” phone which Evans shipped to him from Los
Angeles, California.
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ANALYSIS OF “MONEY MAKER” PHONE
The extraction from Baker’s “money maker” phone (267-670-4429),
specific to the dates March 1, 2021, to February 8, 2022, was analyzed. Based
on that analysis, your affiants confirmed that the phone’s primary use is to
facilitate the trafficking of methamphetamine and other drugs to Tyrone Baker’s
customers. Samples of these drug related communications are detailed below.
CRONAUER DRUG DEAL ONE: DECEMBER 4, 2021
Located within the “money maker” phone download was text message
content between Baker’s phone and the phone number 570-721-5331. That
phone number was saved in Baker’s phone as “Dave Scranton.” A search of the
law enforcement database TLOxp linked the phone number to David Cronauer
who is associated with Scranton, Pennsylvania. Text message content between
the two phones began on December 4, 2021, through January 24, 2022. Based
on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine that the content
of these text messages is almost entirely related to drug transactions from Baker
to “Dave Scranton.”
One specific example is a series of text messages that took place on
Sunday, December 4, 2021, and December 5, 2021:
Cronauer: “Yo”
Baker: “Yo bro”
Cronauer: “Looks like ingot a 3ide”
Baker: “Yo”
Cronauer: “1625 ash street scranton pa”
Cronauer: “That’s it”
Cronauer: “Hey listen I gotta call you back”
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Cronauer: “2800 is what it will be can you throw me another qp for
that”
Cronauer: “Yoooo”
Cronauer: “Im going to get us a hotel room.somewhere that way we can
do evertything in the privacy of a room”
Cronauer: “I’m thinking the microtel”
Cronauer: “1625 ash street scranton pa”
Cronauer: “1625 Ash St, Scranton, PA 18510”
Cronauer: “Just remember you got to pick me up at the 1625 ash street
scranton pa before we go to the hotel”
Cronauer: “Well he didn’t answer I’m waiting knbhim to call me back”
Baker: “I’m close”
Baker: “13 min”
Cronauer: “Ok”
Cronauer: “Heyy”
Baker: “What’s up?”
Cronauer: “Im.in thebdruveway”
Cronauer: “I’m lookingnfornya”
Baker: “Here”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the above series of text messages was consistent with
the sale of illegal drugs by Tyrone Baker to David Cronauer which Baker
arranged using phone number 267-670-4429. More specifically, Cronauer is
attempting to purchase $2800 worth of drugs from Baker. Based on Cronauer’s
statement “can you throw me another qp for that,” your affiants believe that
Cronauer is paying Baker more money than initially expected and is asking for
an extra quarter pound (“qp”) of drugs in exchange.
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CRONAUER DRUG DEAL TWO: DECEMBER 26, 2021
Continued text message communication was observed between Baker’s
phone and Cronauer’s phone located in the phone contents of Baker’s “Money
Maker” phone, almost all of which appeared to be related to the sale of drugs by
Baker to Cronauer. Another example of drug related communication is detailed
below. These text messages were sent and received during the early morning
hours of December 26, 2021:
Baker: “Yo bro wassup”
Cronauer: “I’ll call you back”
Baker: “Hurry up”
Cronauer: “Ok”
Cronauer: “We’re good”
Cronauer: “So I’ll message younwhen my ridengetsbhere”
Baker: “Okay”
Baker: “IDK it’s looking like tomar bro just gotta be early”
Cronauer: “Bro immon mybway”
Baker: “What?”
Cronauer: “I’m on my way”
Cronauer: “Ya know I’ll justbwiatntill tkmorrow”
Baker: “I’m ready”
Baker: “60th race at Philadelphia PA 19139”
Cronauer: “You can’t meet in king of Prussia”
Baker: “Naw I got my daughter”
Cronauer: “It’s ok”
Baker: “I cone to you just come to me bro I got you”
Cronauer: “It’s ok ill.comendownn”
Cronauer: “Do you got an address”
Cronauer: “????”
Baker: “I sent it”
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Baker: “60th race at Philadelphia PA 19139
Cronauer: “I didn’t get it”
Cronauer: “Yooo big i didn’t get it’
Baker: “Call me”
Cronauer: “Ok”
Cronauer: “So what am I getting when inget doen there I’m getting ice
right”
Cronauer: “Or am I just getting 20 epills”
Baker: “Both”
Baker: “Eta”
Cronauer: “One hour forty-five minutes away but we’re behind zn
accident”
Baker: “3 in the morning it should be no traffic”
Cronauer: “Yooo I’m parked behind your car”
Baker: “Tell them pull off”
Fixed surveillance on 157 N. Edgewood Street was reviewed from
December 26, 2021, which showed that Tyrone Baker’s vehicle was parked along
N. Edgewood Street in the area of 157 N. Edgewood Street. It should be noted
that 60th and Race (the location Baker sent to Cronauer) is approximately one
block up and one block over from 157 N. Edgewood Street. At 9:02AM,
Cronauer’s phone called Baker’s phone. At approximately 9:04AM, a dark
colored Lincoln SUV (PA/DV33107) was observed parking behind Baker’s dodge
sedan vehicle. This is consistent with the text message sent to Baker’s phone
from Cronauer that stated “Yooo I’m parked behind your car.” At approximately
9:15AM, Baker was observed coming off the front porch of 157 N. Edgewood
Street and walking toward Race Street. At 9:16AM, Cronauer sent Baker the text
message “Yooo I’m parked behind your car.” Shortly afterwards, Baker was seen
walking back toward his vehicle and the vehicle parked behind his, eventually
getting into the driver’s seat of his car. At 9:18AM, Cronauer was observed exiting
the right rear passenger door of the Buick and entering the front passenger seat
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of Baker’s white Dodge Charger. At approximately 9:34 AM, Cronauer was
observed exiting Baker’s vehicle and returning to the Lincoln. Both vehicles pull
away from Edgewood Street shortly after.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the meeting observed by fixed surveillance was the drug deal between Baker
and Cronauer discussed in the corresponding text messages transcribed above.
“COO” DRUG DEAL ONE: JANUARY 28, 2022
CALLS #163, 199, 215, 217, AND 223 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON
JANUARY 28, 2022, FROM 6:04PM TO 7:39PM, INCOMING PHONE CALLS
AND INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE BETWEEN PHONE NUMBER 215-607-0798
AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER AND SUPPORTED
BY CALL #221 ON JANUARY 28, 2022, AT 7:53PM BETWEEN 484-929-7202,
A PHONE USED BY ZACHARY SMITH, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED
BY TYRONE BAKER, AND CALL #244 ON JANUARY 28, 2022 AT 10:46PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRIVINIA QUINTANA, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
6:04PM – Call #163 – 00:12-01:37 VOICE CALL BETWEEN 215-607-0798
AND 215-980-1764 (BAKER)
Baker: “Hello.”
U/M: “Yo Black, what’s good?”
Baker: “What’s up with you Coo (S/L).”
U/M: “I’m chilling. You around right now?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “What’s the number?”
Baker: “I/A JuJu”
U/M: “I can’t hear you.”
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Baker: “No, I’m talking to my daughter.”
Baker: “I be doing like, like twenty, twenty-three, twenty-four, like twenty-
four from them jawns, for real for real.”
U/M: “Alright, umm, I’m probably about to come grab one, alright?”
Baker: “Alright I’m in the county and shit though bro.”
U/M: “Can’t do like where we usually meet at? 63rd I/A.”
Baker: “No, uhh, uhh, I like got my daughter with me but I can meet, look,
I can do this though, bro like I’m in the county but I’m not deep in
the county I/A. I’m in the county but I’m not deep in the county. So,
I can meet you probably like umm, I can meet you like in west but
probably like on like uhh you know near like 60, 63rd and like
Baltimore?”
U/M: “Yeah down there.”
Baker: “Yeah like that’s what I meant I/A.”
U/M: “Call you back in a little bit.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright?”
Baker: “Huh?”
U/M: “I said I’ll call you back in a little bit, see what’s up.”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah call me. Call me before you slide out and shit I/A.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
In the above phone voice calls, subsequent text message between Baker
and “Coo” using phone number 215-607-0798 – believed to be a drug customer
of Baker’s, and corroborating phone call between Baker and a phone used by
Zachary Smith, it is your affiants’ opinion that “Coo” contacted Baker via phone
(Call #163) to setup an illegal drug deal. “Coo” calls Baker and asks if he is
“around,” a term commonly used to refer to actively selling drugs. After Baker
confirms that he is around, “Coo” asks Baker “what’s the number?” which your
affiants’ believe is “Coo” asking Baker for a price. Baker tells him “24,” which
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your affiants believe is short for $2400. Baker responds that they can meet in
the area of 63rd and Baltimore which your affiants believe is referring to the
intersection of 63rd Street, which turns into Cobbs Creek Parkway, and Baltimore
Avenue, near the Philadelphia/Delaware County border. A check of Google Maps
showed that this intersection is approximately 1.4 miles from 57 Melrose Avenue,
East Lansdowne, the address where Baker has been staying. It also should be
noted that Melrose Avenue is in Delaware County, which corroborates Baker
telling “Coo” during the voice call that he is “in the county.”
7:19PM – Call #199 – INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE FROM 215-607-0798 TO
215-980-1764 (BAKER)
U/M: “That’s cool?”
7:38PM – Call #215 – 00:05-00:18 BETWEEN 215-607-0798 AND 215-980-
1764 (BAKER)
Baker: “Yo I/A.”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “I’m right around the corner. I’m about to drive down.”
U/M: “Call Black. Alright, I’m right here. Um, near the Septa shit.”
Baker: “I/A. I know exactly where. Alright perfect bro. Perfect.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Ey, yo.”
In the follow-up voice call (Call #215), “Coo” calls Baker. Baker said that
he’s right around the corner, and “Coo” stated that he’s near the “Septa shit.” A
check of Septa bus routes showed that there is a Septa stop located at the
intersection of 58th Street and Baltimore Avenue – this is the same intersection
as Cobbs Creek Parkway and Baltimore Avenue. It is your affiants’ opinion that
this follow-up voice call is Baker and “Coo” arranging to meet in the area of that
intersection to complete their drug transaction.
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7:39PM – Call #217 – 00:00-01:00 BETWEEN 215-607-0798 AND 215-980-
1764 (BAKER)
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yo I was about to say, make sure that jawn ain’t got a lot of, you
know what I’m saying. You heard me?”
Baker: “Uhhh ohh fuck, damn bro, uh, lemme see let me try to make it up
I/A make you a good jawn right now and shit ‘cause I don’t even
(sighs) I don’t even know I/A. Lemme see I’m a, I’m a have to, I’m a
have to remix it a little bit for you (laughs).”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “You hear me?”
U/M: “Yeah, yeah I can’t, I can’t really, uh, do nothing with, with all that,
you know what I’m saying, ya hear me?”
Baker: “Yeah. I’m a, I’m a see what I can do and shit, you know what I
mean? I forgot, but, but I only got like two jawns left so I/A I’ll bring
it out with me, can’t fuck with this I/A.”
U/M: “What they all, what they all shakey?”
Baker: “No, not like super shakey but like, how much I got… I got like two
jawns left and they like, they just got shake in it I/A. But I’m about
to, I’m about to cycle through it right now though.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright you have to give me at least like another like 10, 15, to 15
minutes to come I/A.”
U/M: “Alright that’s cool, alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
In the follow-up voice call (Call #217), “Coo” calls Baker. It is your affiants’
opinion that Baker and “Coo” are using coded language to discuss the quality of
the drugs “Coo” wants to purchase. “Coo” stated “make sure that jawn ain’t got
a lot of, you know what I’m saying.” Baker responded that he’s going to “have to
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remix it” and references that he only has “two jawns left.” It is your affiants’
opinion that “Coo” is requesting a specific quality of drug from Baker who is
going to have to “remix” his product to satisfy “Coo’s” request.
7:53PM – Call #221 – 00:00-00:18 BETWEEN 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED
BY ZACHARY SMITH, AND 215-980-1764 (BAKER)
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Zachary Smith: “Yo Black what you doing?”
Baker: “Umm I got my daughter tonight and shit.”
Zachary Smith: “No I ain’t, I ain’t talking about that, I’m saying what you doing
right now?”
Baker: “Uhh I’m about to go bust this trap to Coo (S/L)”
Zachary Smith: “What he just grabbed some windows?”
Baker: “He about to grab a window from me.”
The opinions related to this voice and text exchange of your affiants are
further supported by the voice call (Call #221) between Baker and phone
number, 484-929-7202, used by Zachary Smith. This call occurs approximately
six (6) minutes prior to Baker meeting “Coo” in the area of Cobbs Creek Parkway
and Baltimore Avenue. During the call, Baker tells Zachary Smith that he’s about
to “bust this trap” with “Coo” and that “Coo” is “grab[bing] a window.” Through
their training, knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker
and Zachary Smith are using coded language to discuss Baker’s pending drug
sale to “Coo.” Your affiants are aware that “window” is commonly used drug slang
for methamphetamine, as it is a reference to methamphetamine’s glass like
appearance.
7:59PM – Call #223 – 00:09-00:26 A VOICE CALL BETWEEN 215-607-0798
AND 215-980-1764 (BAKER)
Baker: “Yea, I pulling up right now.”
U/M: “Alright, I’m right here middle of the block.”
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Baker: “Oh you in the middle or the um…”
U/M: “I’m between Cobbs Creek and Baltimore.”
Baker: “Alright, Alright, I see it you (s/l) you with young Wil?”
U/M: “Yea, yup.”
Baker: “Alright, I see ya, I got ya.”
In the follow-up voice call (Call #223), Baker calls “Coo” and tells him that
he is “pulling up now.” “Coo” responds and tells Baker his location; “Cobbs Creek
and Baltimore.” Baker responds that he sees “Coo.” It is your affiants’ opinion
that this is the meeting of Baker and “Coo” at Cobbs Creek Parkway and
Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, to complete the drug transaction.
8:23PM – FIXED SURVEILLANCE AT 57 MELROSE AVENUE, EAST
LANSDOWNE
At 8:26PM, fixed surveillance at 57 Melrose Avenue showed Tyrone Baker
and Trivinia Quintana arrive in Quintana’s silver Hyundai Sonata and enter 57
Melrose Avenue.
10:46 PM – Call #244 - 00:56 - 01:33 A VOICE CALL BETWEEN QUINTANA
(267-880-8593) AND BAKER (215-980-1764)
Baker: “She went to sleep like an hour ago, so.”
Quintana: “Oh she’s sleeping now?”
Baker: “Yeah, she’s sleeping now I/A.”
Quintana: “Like, if you, you left out?”
Baker: “No, ah I did for a second, I just went down the street to bust this
trap.”
Quintana: “Oh about to say.”
Baker: “But I had ah, I had the phone I Facetimed my other phone and
put my other phone on the dresser so I could see her.”
Quintana: “OK.”
Baker: “So I could see her and shit.”
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Quintana: “Oh OK, That’s smart.”
Baker: “So when I was busting a draw I had it on Facetime the whole time
so I could see her, if she moved or anything.”
In the above voice call between Baker and Quintana, they are discussing
Baker watching his daughter JuJu. During the call, Baker tells her that he left
JuJu sleeping at his house while he went to “bust this trap,” but watched her on
Facetime by leaving one of his two phones at home. Your affiants know that
“busting a trap” is common slang term for the act of selling drugs and that
Facetime is Apple’s video and audio chatting platform that lets iPhone users
communicate via video. Baker also said that he just “went down the street.” A
google maps check of the distance between 57 Melrose Avenue and the
intersection of Cobbs Creek Parkway and Baltimore Avenue showed that it was
1.4 miles via vehicle. It is your affiants’ opinion that Baker left JuJu at home
sleeping by herself while he went to sell drugs to “Coo.” While he was out, Baker
watched JuJu via Facetime. It is your affiants’ opinion that Baker had at least
two (2) iPhone mobile phones. Through their training, knowledge, and
experience, your affiants know that having multiple phones is a common practice
of drug traffickers in an attempt to shield their identities and communications
from others, including law enforcement.
Summary of above calls and surveillance
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, the content of the above calls and text messages, and the nature
of this investigation thus far, your affiants believe that this was a drug deal
between Baker and “Coo” where Baker sold “Coo” a quantity of
methamphetamine. Your affiants are aware that $2400 is consistent with the
price of a pound of methamphetamine in the current Philadelphia-area market
and that Chase Smith identified Baker as a trafficker of pound quantities of
methamphetamine. Additionally, “Coo’s” request that it not be “shakey,” is likely
a reference to the quality of the methamphetamine, which is more desirable when
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it is packaged in larger crystals. Further, the follow up phone call with the
Zachary Smith referencing a “window,” is additional support to the belief the
drug Baker sold to “Coo” was methamphetamine.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. AKA “ROB BRO BRO”
Located within the phone download was text message content between
Baker’s phone and the phone number 267-995-0512. The number was saved in
Baker’s phone as “Rob Bro Bro,” later identified as Robert Smarra Jr. Text
message content between the two phones began on December 5, 2021, through
February 8, 2022. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your
affiants opine that the content of these text messages is almost entirely related
to drug transactions from Baker to Smarra Jr.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY 4,
2022
One specific example is a series of text messages that took place on
February 4, 2022, between 5:15 PM and 9:37 PM, while Baker was in California:
Smarra: “Yo”
Baker: “What’s up?”
Smarra: “Wya”
Baker: “I’m outta town”
Smarra: “Who do i gotta go see”
Baker: “You can meet my brother at chickie a petes”
Smarra: “Yo pop. I’m bout to cross over the bridge”
Smarra: “I’m Pullin up to chickies”
Baker: “Bro he gonna like40 min”
Smarra: “No way”
Smarra: “Wat should i do pop”
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Baker: “Wya now”
Smarra: “Still at chickies”
Baker: “10 min”
Smarra: “Ok”
A comparison of intercepted communications on Baker’s other phone 215-
980-1764 to the times of these extracted text messages revealed a link between
the text messages and calls #1398, #1405, #1407, and #1409 on Docket 38-1
E.D. 2022.
CALLS #1398, 1405, 1407, AND 1409 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 4, 2022, BETWEEN 8:40PM AND 9:53PM,
OUTGOING/INCOMING PHONE CALLS TO/FROM 484-929-7202, A PHONE
USED BY ZACHARY SMITH, FROM/TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
During the below series of calls, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker
arranged for the sale of a controlled substance, believed to be two (2) pounds of
methamphetamine, in the parking lot of the Chickie and Pete’s in South
Philadelphia to Robert Smarra Jr. arriving in a black Cadillac. Zachary Smith,
acting on Baker’s behalf, subsequently delivered the controlled substance to the
Smarra Jr.
CALL #1398
Smith: “What’s up bro?”
Baker: “Yo what’s up bro. You still have them two jawns?”
Smith: “Yeah I got ‘em. Yup.”
Baker: “Yeah. My man want them jawns, you can just... meet him at
Chickie and Pete’s in South Philly.”
Smith: “I/A already in motion, I, uhhh, fuck, fuck, fuck.”
Baker: “What you want me to do? Tell him to turn around?”
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Smith: “Huh?”
Baker: “What you want me to do?”
Smith: “I got somebody waiting for... no, no, no, no, no. I didn’t know he
was gonna be right, why didn’t you give me a little heads up?”
Baker: “I didn’t know.”
Smith: “Damn I wish you would have called me like, called me like fifteen
minutes ago I/A I’m already on the expressway Black. Damn. Umm
how, how late he gonna, Black its 8:40.”
Baker: “Uh well he’s not there. He crossing, he at the, he said he at the
bridge. Like he just getting at the bridge in Jersey. So he about to
cross the bridge. Then be at South Philly and then he gotta wrap
around I/A.”
Smith: “Here’s what I think. One of them jawns open cause remember we
didn’t vacuum seal it back.”
Baker: “Why the hell, why the fuck y’all didn’t vacuum seal it back? I told
y’all to vacuum seal it back.”
Smith: “We ain’t never get, I ain’t get a, I ain’t get a, I ain’t get a chance to
do it.”
Baker: (Coughs)
Smith: “I ain’t get a chance to do it. I thought you was gonna call me
ahead of time like yo I know somebody who might want them
jawns. I didn’t think that shit was gonna be on demand, like right
then and there, that’s my bad.”
Baker: “Yeah I ain’t even know, thing is I ain’t even know this, I ain’t know
he was gonna be calling, he calling me when he get off the bridge.
I’m like the fuck, like I/A.”
Smith: “Alright. Ask him, ask him, ask him, ask him can he, can he give
me a little time cause I’m in the middle of something. I’m, I’m, I’m
like really running to go see someone right now.”
Baker: “Go tell him like what, like you want me to tell, you want him to go
back, and then...”
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Smith: “Oh, oh this, this the same bull that you said might wasn’t going to
meet me?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “I thought he was, I thought oh shit, I thought you was gonna try
find somebody else and shit. Umm. You said you be having him at
twenty-eight?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Alright I might just have to do some driving and shit. Alright.”
Baker: “You said alright?”
Smith: “I/A can I, you think I can give him one vacuum sealed and one
inside just uh, uh big ass ziplock bag?”
Baker: “Um uh yeah I don’t give a fuck yeah put it, put it in a ziplock bag
bro. That’s what I be doing.”
Smith: “Alright, alright, alright, alright...that’s what we gonna, that’s what
I’m gonna, that’s what I’m gonna do alright?”
Baker: “As long as that shit weighing correctly I don’t give a fuck.”
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “Alright, how long you gonna be? You better go back to the crib,
you about to do some I/A.”
Smith: “Huh?”
Baker: “What should I tell him?”
Smith: “Just tell him to give me a little time I’m running around. I can’t go
right back to the crib I’m already in the middle of 76. So I, I might
as well do that and then just run to my crib and then run right
back I/A. It’s non-stop I’m probably gonna need like an hour.”
Baker: “Alright and shit.”
Smith: “That’s some short notice. I didn’t know he was coming.”
Baker: “You want a better spot he can meet, you want to meet him at?”
Smith: “Umm, if I don’t wanna go there he can go to City Line Avenue.
Like City Line Avenue will make it faster but I don’t know if he
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gonna feel like coming out to City Line. I don’t want to send him
nowhere like in the hood, make him, spook him up ya feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah I be having him, he pulling up to, near my baby mom crib on
West.”
Smith: “You want, you want, you want to send him up the Boulevard
then?”
Baker: “Shit. I/A. Umm I don’t know. What you say? Uhh. Shit. Uh fuck I
don’t know.”
Smith: “You got him at 28 right?”
Baker: “Like, he wa... nah not 28 like twenty... 27, twenty...”
Smith: “Alright. I/A.”
Baker: “27, 26...”
Smith: “Alright, uhh.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smith: “I’m just saying, I’m just trying make sure you do what’s before you
giving that shit.”
Baker: “I/A this shit still might backfire. That’s what I really I/A get our
bread back.”
Smith: “Cause if it backfire, he gonna get. If he back, naw but if it backfire
we gonna give him his bread back. Feel me?”
Baker: “Alright and shit. Uh well alright I’m gonna call him and tell him
you gonna be like, like 40, 45 minutes so.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Based on the training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine that
the content of the above call is related to a drug transaction. Specifically, Tyrone
Baker was directing Zachary Smith to meet an individual, based on the
corresponding text messages and video surveillance from Chickie and Pete’s,
identified as Robert Smarra Jr., in South Philadelphia for the purpose of selling
two pounds of methamphetamine to Smarra Jr. for $2600 or $2700 a pound.
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CALL #1405
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “Yo bro, your folks still there?”
Baker: “I don’t even know. He was... like he’s still at Chickie’s.”
Smith: “Ask him.”
Baker: “He there, he there.”
Smith: “You sure?”
Baker: “He just texted me nine minutes ago said still at Chickie’s.”
Smith: “Tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him I’m driving towards him.”
Baker: “Alright. What I tell him like fifteen minutes?”
Smith: “Not even... maybe, yeah like fifteen minutes tops.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright. (Baker speaking in the background)”
In this follow-up voice call, Smith asked Baker if the buyer was still at
Chickie and Pete’s. Baker confirmed that the buyer was still there, and Smith
responded that he would be there in 15 minutes.
CALL #1407
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “Yo, uh tell him I’m about to pull up, where, where he at? He in the
parking lot?”
Baker: “I/A me and shit.”
Smith: “Ask him what kinda car he in, tell him I’m pulling up.”
Baker: “He in the caddy.”
Smith: “Tell him I’m in the silver Ford Explorer... what color caddy he be
in?”
Baker: “Uhh, a white one.”
Smith: “He a white boul?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
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Smith: “He gone, alright, ask him do he want, alright, ask him if he want
me to get in the car with him or he want to be in the car with me.”
Baker: “Bet I’m about to call him now bro.”
Smith: “Alright.”
In your affiants’ opinion, the above follow-up voice call is Smith trying to
meet up with Smarra Jr. and exchanging what vehicle each is driving. Smith
stated that he is operating a silver Ford Explorer and Baker tells Smith that the
customer, Smarra Jr., was operating a Cadillac. It should be noted that later
surveillance of Zachary Smith on February 27, 2022, observed him operating a
silver Ford Explorer (PA Registration LWE-8839).
CALL #1409 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 4, 2022, AT
9:53PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED
BY ZACHARY SMITH, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “My man about to pull in, my bro about to pull in. Where you?
What you in? You in your Caddy? (Baker is talking to male on
different phone on speaker; U/M on speaker: “Yeah yo”)”
Baker: “Alright, yo, yeah, silver, bro I was just about to tell you he in a
silver Ford...(Baker to U/M on different phone).”
Smith: “Ford Explorer.”
Baker: “Yeah silver Ford Explorer (Baker to U/M on different phone).”
Smith: “Ask him do he want me to get in his car or do he want to get in
my car.”
Baker: “Do you want, do you want to get in his car or you want him to get
in your car? How you want to do it? (Baker to U/M on different
phone).”
U/M: “I/A”
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Bake: “Huh? I guess so because yall dont, he don’t know the back blocks
of that jawn, like you know me, we meet on the back block, but I
don’t.”
Smith: “I can meet him on the back blocks, I’m just in South Philly, I
mean it’s up to him.”
Baker: “Alright well it’s up to you bro, you want to go to the back block,
meet him on the back block, I dunno.”
UM: “I/A”
Baker: “Yeah he can, for real, it don’t matter bro whatever make you feel
comfortable. I/A he close though he getting off the exit.”
UM: “I/A”
Baker: “What? At Chickies and Petes? (Baker to U/M on different phone)”
Baker: “Alright he said he gonna be at Chickie’s and Pete’s just hop in the
whip. He in a black Caddy.”
Smith: “Alright I’ll be right there.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that this conversation between Tyrone Baker and Zachary Smith is the final call
in a series of calls which describe a drug deal facilitated by Tyrone Baker but
carried out by Zachary Smith. Based on the content of this call and the preceding
calls related to the same drug delivery, your affiants believe that Zachary Smith
sold two pounds of methamphetamine to Smarra Jr. in the parking lot of the
Chickie and Pete’s restaurant in South Philadelphia. Based on the lack of follow
up calls related to the drug deal, your affiants believe that after this final call,
the drug deal was completed by Zachary Smith.
Summary of calls and text messages regarding suspected drug transaction at Chickie and Pete’s
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
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that the above text messages between Tyrone Baker and Robert Smarra Jr. aka
“Rob Bro Bro,” and the corresponding calls between Baker and Zachary Smith,
are referencing a drug deal between Smith and Smarra Jr. that was arranged by
Baker using phone number 215-980-1764 to communicate with Zachary Smith
and phone number 267-670-4429 to communicate with Smarra Jr. More
specifically, your affiants believe, based on the content of the calls, that Smith
sold Smarra Jr. two pounds of methamphetamine for approximately $2600 to
$2700 a pound.
Following the drug deal, Montgomery County Detective Vincent Fuentes
obtained surveillance video of the time period the drug deal was suspected to
take place. Upon review, your affiants observed what appeared to be a black
Cadillac sedan parked in the parking lot facing the 1500 block of Packer Avenue,
Philadelphia. Eventually the Cadillac moved, backing into a parking spot directly
against Packer Avenue. A short time later a silver Ford Explorer was observed
pulling into the parking lot on the far end away from the restaurant near where
the Cadillac was parked. The Ford backed into a spot on the passenger side of
the Cadillac and a person was observed exiting the driver’s door of the Ford and
interacting with the passenger side of the Cadillac, appearing to enter the front
passenger door. A couple minutes later a subject was observed entering the
driver’s door of the Ford Explorer and both vehicles left the area, first the Ford,
then the Cadillac. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the content of the above transcribed calls, your affiants
believe this video depicted the drug deal between Robert Smarra Jr and Zachary
Smith, orchestrated by Tyrone Baker.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY
15, 2022
On February 13, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro” aka Robert Smarra
Jr. again reached out to Baker on the “money maker” phone and the series of
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communications lead to a meeting between Baker and Smarra Jr. on February
15, 2022.
CALLS #90, 117, 157, 169, AND 197 ON DOCKET #38-6 E.D. 2022
BETWEEN FEBRUARY 13, 2022, AND FEBRUARY 15, 2022, A SERIES OF
COMMUNCIATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT
SMARRA JR., AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smarra (Call #90): “I need to see u”
Call #117
Smarra: “Yo yo.”
Baker: “Yo, what’s up Rob?”
Smarra: “What’s good with you bro?”
Baker: “I/A. How about you I/A?”
Smarra: “Not much. I been dying over here.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “No, I’ve been needing to see you.”
Baker: “Yeah, look you. I don’t, I don’t got nothing crazy but you wanna
grab this last jawn before I go out L.A.?”
Smarra: “You leavin again? God damn!”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah I gotta leave so I can I/A this shit forward.”
Smarra: “You got one, one last one?”
Baker: “Damn, this shit I/A. Huh?”
Smarra: “What do you got one more?”
Baker: “I got half.”
Smarra: “Oh fuck, alright! Alright, yeah. I just, huh dude. I can’t get out to
you right now. I got arrested the other night in my driveway. Fuckin
for my tags. Bro when I bought the car off of boy, he gave me a
fraudulent fuckin temp tag dude that was off of a Nissan Altima that
was expired in like 2020.”
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Baker: “Um.”
Smarra: “I mean, regardless then, I’m remaking, but. You know, yeah it’s
shitty.”
Baker: “Alright, it wasn’t about nothing else?”
Smarra: “What up?”
Baker: “It wasn’t about nothing else I/A?”
Smarra: “No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on bro!”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “I wouldn’t be on the phone with you right now. I/A. No
way.”
Baker: “Alright, and shit. Well look, let me call you back. I’mma call you
right back bro, hold on.”
Smarra: “Alright, I’m gonna see if I can get a ride out there. If not, you know
what I mean?”
Baker: “Alright, I/A. If you can’t, I will come to you in the morning.”
Smarra: “But yeah I/A can do that.”
Baker: “I will come to you in the morning.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Smarra (Call #157): “Omw”
Call #169
Smarra: “Yo...yo, yo.”
Baker: “Yo, buddy you got my text.”
Smarra: “Yea, yea, yea.”
Baker: “I’m on my way up there, I’ll be there like fifteen twenty.”
Smarra: “What.”
Baker: “I’ll be there.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Like fifteen twenty minutes.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
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Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “I/A.”
Call #197
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smara: “Yo, good look on the ice tea jawn.”
Baker: “The what?”
Smara: “(laughs) Good look on the iced tea container.”
Baker: “I left it there? Ahhhhh.”
Smara: “(laughs)”
Baker: “That’s funny as shit, I definitely did probably leave that jawn there”
Smara: “You definitely did bro, good looks.”
Baker: “Yeah I’m coming back for that jawn tomorrow, my nigga.”
Smara: “I/A”
Baker: “That’s I/A, I need that shit.”
Smara: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright Brodie.”
Smara: “I’ll call, I’ll, hit me up when you get back.”
Surveillance of Baker on February 15, 2022
During the above referenced calls on February 15, 2022, surveillance
officers followed Baker as he travelled into the state of New Jersey, but briefly
lost sight of him in the area of Clementon Road and Berlin Road, Clementon,
New Jersey. Several minutes later, Upper Darby Police Detective News observed
Tyrone Baker’s Dodge Charger (LMS5730) parked in the driveway at 544 Berlin
Road, Clementon, New Jersey 08021. According to Detective News, there were
also other vehicles, including a Cadillac parked in the driveway.
Summary of Drug Deal on February 15, 2022
Based on the intercepted communications between Baker and Smarra Jr.,
surveillance officers observing Baker drive to a residence in Clementon, New
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Jersey, the black Cadillac parked in the driveway similar to the vehicle that met
with Zachary Smith on February 4, 2022, and your affiants’ training, knowledge,
and experience, it is their opinion that the above meeting was a drug transaction
between Baker and Smarra Jr.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL THREE:
ORCHESTRATED BY TYRONE BAKER, SUPPLIED BY
JHAMIR WINANS, DELIVERED BY ANTIONE MANGUM,
MONEY DROP TO WINANS – FEBRUARY 18, 2022
On February 18, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro” aka Robert Smarra
Jr., again reached out to Baker on the “money maker” phone to purchase “two.”
Baker replied that he could get some for Smarra Jr., and Baker subsequently
communicated with Winans who facilitated bringing drugs to Baker for sale to
Smarra Jr. The intercepted communications and surveillance are as follows:
CALLS #475, 477, 480, 5392, 542, 545, 556, 558, 560, 562, 564, AND 574
ON DOCKET #38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022, BETWEEN 3:51PM
AND 8:11PM, A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A
PHONE USED BY ROBERT SMARRA JR., AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smarra (Call #475): “Yo yo.”
Call #477
Smarra: “Yo, yo.”
Baker: “Yo what’s up bro.”
Smarra: “You still on vacation?”
Baker: “No, I didn’t leave yet, I’m not leave today I’m leaving
tonight”
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Smarra: “Ah shit, anything around or anything before you leave.”
Baker: “Yea, what you want to do?”
Smarra: “Ah fuck it, whatever. I need whatever.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Ah shit I thought you left I thought would’ve been back already.”
Baker: “No, I’m about to leave leave today and shit.”
Smarra: “Oh shit, alright.”
Baker: “What you want to get, like two?”
Smarra: “What you got two?”
Baker: “I prob, I can get two for you.”
Smarra: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright let me call I/A I got you.”
Smarra: “Alright, good look Brodie.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Call #480
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo, did you come through you come to Chickie’s and
Pete’s?”
Smarra: “Yea, Imma gonna try to get a ride.”
Baker: “Are you still without a car bro?”
Smarra: “No, I need to get this to the fucking DMV I have too wait for my
appointment.”
Baker: “Yea Brodie you need a wheel, I can probably come to you but I got
alot shit I/A if you can try ah I/A to Chickie and Pete’s that would
be cool.”
Smarra: “Yea, yea right that be cool, that be alright, Yea.”
Baker: “Alright call me when get a wheel and stuff, I’ll call you when I’m
ready...alright.”
Smarra: “Alright yo..later.”
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Call #539
Baker: “Yo, wassup?”
Smarra: “Leaving my house.”
Baker: “Leaving your house right now?”
Smarra: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright bro, ah bro you leave now cause I got to leave in like another
hour bro.”
Smarra: “Nah Yea.”
Baker: “Alright, hurry up though, you gotta hurry up”
Smarra: “Alright I won’t take long.”
Baker: “Alright, I’ll text you address..alright.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker (Call #542): “13 Melrose Ave., Lansdowne PA 19050.”
Call #545
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smarra: “What up?”
Baker: “What’s up what you um you got the address you probably didn’t
look at it yet.”
Smarra: “Yes.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “I/A I was just I/A.”
Baker: “Alright what you in a car?”
Smarra: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright I/A if you not gonna be able to make it or like if you’re not
try come like don’t worry about but I like, like fuck it and shit cause
I got my man about meet up with and I gotta grab his jawns and and
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if you not gonna come like I’ll just tell him never mind and shit but
you have to like.”
Smarra: “Un no.”
Baker: “Huh.”
Smarra: “I’m coming.”
Baker: “What you say buddy, I can’t, can’t hear your phone?”
Smarra: “Yo, can you hear me?”
Baker: “Yea, I can hear you now.”
Smarra: “Alright I’m coming.”
Baker: “Alright shit bro.”
Smarra: “I’ll be right there.”
Smarra (Call #556): “On Baltimore Ave.”
Smarra (Call #558): “Philly or the county?”
Smarra (Call #560): “I think the county?”
Smarra (Call #562): “B there in 5.”
Call #564
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro, what car are you in?”
Smarra: “I’m in a Chrysler 300. I’m about to turn on Melrose right now.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright, yo, I’m gonna, I’m gonna send you uh…I’m gonna send
you a- Jesus Christ.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Smarra: “No, I’m gonna send you a thousand on cash app.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Then I’ll give you the rest in cash.”
Baker: “Alright, that’s cool. I’m on Melrose right now, I’mma, I’mma on the
corner you gonna see me. What you say you about to turn?”
(Burps)
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Smarra: “Yeah, I’mma, I’mma about I’mma at that Exxon.”
Baker: “Oh you’re at the Exxon?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Yo, yo I’mma gonna, I’mma gonna, what you want me to hop in
your whip.”
Baker: “What did you say?”
Smarra: “You want me to hop into your car?”
Baker: “Yeah I am pulling up now.”
Smarra: “Huh?”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Yo cuz.”
Baker: “No, eh…yeah, no, I’m gonna hop in your car.”
Call #574
Baker: “I/A at the corner? A white Charger?”
Smarra: “No.”
Baker: “How do you not see me the fuck?”
Smarra: “I see...you’re on Melrose right?”
Baker: “Yeah right when you make that turn?”
Smarra: “Yeah. I don’t see you bro.”
Baker: “Ah you so retarded. You don’t see my charger right down the
corner?”
Smarra: “Nah.”
Baker: “Alright, alright. I’m about to come down there.”
Smarra: “Wait. You’re not here?”
Baker: “I am here! I/A.”
Smarra: “Yeah, I’m on Melrose homie...oh right there yeah I see you.”
Baker: “I about to say how the fuck don’t you see my car?”
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Smarra: “Alright. I’ll be right there, I’m coming.”
Baker: “I/A”
CALLS #4334, 4366, 4373, 4380, 4383, AND 4389 ON DOCKET #38-1 E.D.
2022 ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022, BETWEEN 5:32PM AND 8:10PM, A SERIES
OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #4334
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: (Whispers “Thanks”), “Alright but yeah he he’s stuck in traffic
though I/A but yeah, yeah, he’s still in traffic that’s what… he said
55 or 65.”
Baker: “Okay 63 oh I/A.”
Winans: (Speaking over Baker) “Oh 63, oh alright, nah, nah, that’ cool it, for
real, it’s up to you but like he’s still able to meet to pull that he
said he’s stuck in traffic so like I/A he’s ready.”
Baker: (Speaking over Winans) “Alright he already got them but he’s stuck
in traffic.”
Winans: “No like he, well he’s up by like up by like the old crib like KOP up
by KOP and shit but he… he said, but he already called like right
before, I’m close.”
Baker: (Speaking over Winans) “Yeah he’s stuck in traffic and shit.”
Winans: “Yeah but he, but he already up there for, he about to have them
but he, he, he said alright but when I get ‘em where am I going to,
at? So I forgot.”
Baker: “Yeah damn, I hope he, I hope he make it time cause I gotta get on
my flight at 8, but he should, he should, he should be…”
Winans: “Where you about to fly to?”
Baker: “I am about to go to Vegas and see my little bitch out there but
then I’m about to go and handle that seven hundred bullshit.”
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Winans: (Speaking over Baker) “I/A where at what?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Winans: “You on strip? Why you ain’t tell me you going to Vegas? I would of
gone with you.”
Baker: “No you wouldn’t bro.”
Winans: “Nigga I’m going all the way to New York right now. I’m, I’m trying
to be up but. Nigga I’m trying for the DR bro I/A.”
Baker: (Speaking over Baker) “I wanna go to DR to but I ain’t got my
passport, so I can’t really go to too many places but I’m going to
Vegas to see my little bitch and shit. My main reason I/A but I’m…
then after that I’m going to LA to handle the situation.”
Winans: “Are you driving over there or catching a…how you, how you
getting to LA?”
Baker: “To LA um…”
Winans: (Talking over Winans) “What about catching a pj bro?”
Baker: (Talking over Winans) “I’ll probably gonna fly.”
Winans: “Catch a pj?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Winans: “They are…they…catch a pj. They only like two hundred from LA to
uh…”
Baker: (Speaking over Winans) “What a private jet?”
Winans: “Yeah from LA to Vegas. Roughly they’re like two, three hundred. It
depends on how soon. You know how that shit is like I/A probably
like for two, three hundred.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Yeah, I/A (mumbling).”
Baker: “Uh, who do I contact about that shit?”
Winans: “There’s an app, aww damn I don’t think I got I/A I’m down with
that, my, my bad what the fuck that jawn called? Uh is it this one?
There’s a couple jawns, I’m thinking I/A and shit okay, I think it’s
this one Las Vegas to LA, Los Angeles, what dates?”
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Baker: “Um to Las Vegas to LA probably be like, like Monday cause I’mma
gonna chill…”
Winans: “Monday?”
Baker: “Yeah I’mma gonna chill her place for two days and shit. Yeah like
Monday.”
Winans: “For this one I gotta make the account. I think I already got an
account I/A.”
Baker: “What am I checking the ice I/A?”
Winans: “What’s this? My should be coming off the dumb ass, I/A dumb
ass reason.”
Baker: “He gave me the cool, I leaving the cool this shit is something,
something that small as shit.”
Winans: “What time you I/A oh shit nah this one, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
they got they got ah shit hold on real quick hold on.”
Baker: “Alright ah shit is right.”
Winans: “Nah, nah, nah, this ain’t doing it I/A.”
Baker: “Two grand?”
Winans: “That shits seven.”
Baker: “What seven hundred?”
Winans: “Seven, seven grand.”
Baker: “Damn from Las Vegas to LA that’s fucking 30-minute situation.”
Winans: “Hold on, hold on, hold on, I think this is probably wrong app
cause at first it was hold on hold on hold on. Yeah nah, nah, nah,
oh this the whole jet hold on hold on, hold on. The jawn I’m just
talking that you book the seat on it but nobody ain’t going I/A.”
Baker: “It ain’t like a private jet by yourself?”
Winans: “But nigga you probably be on there by yourself though even so
nigga you gotta, you gotta think about it, private jet sits only eight
mother fuckers.”
Baker: “Yeah right, shit.”
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Winans: “Right there. Alright so, I/A that one day that nobody, nobody is
going to be booking on no pj on that day, like on Monday or
Tuesday.”
Baker: “Yeah shit, how the young boy doing bro?”
Winans: “He a cry baby bro.”
Baker: (Laughing) “You say all your kids are cry baby’s nigger.”
Winans: “Nah, nah, my daughter yeah. Brother she’s a I/A.”
Baker: (Speaking over Winans) “She getting it, she getting there?”
Winans: “What bro she is like no, no, no, like I mean like, she like, she like
pussy all like she doing all that tight shit, like she be playing my
little brother.”
Baker: (Speaking over Winans) “I/A”
Winans: “Like she act like a boy bro she be like she doing I/A like pull the
jawn like eeh eeh eeh, like she be like I/A I ain’t gonna lie.”
Baker: (Chuckle) “He be stamping.”
Winans: “I probably gonna I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, I’m about to push me out like two more kids. I’m trying
I/A.”
Winans: “That birth, no u cry bro.”
Baker: “I’m trying to have a bunch, future got me on some shit. I’m trying
to have a bunch of kids and a I/A.”
Winans: “I/A”
Baker: “Cause he was just saying like, he was like man you don’t wanna
just have one kid and you never know if something might happen
to that kid now your legacy done. Well, you just got one girl you
know she, she not…”
Winans: (Speaking over Baker) “Damn.”
Baker: “Name not, her last name is temporary you know?”
Winans: “Now you, all you worry about that I/A get there something
happen, like I say like God forbid but I/A then you do that I/A nah
fuck that shit.”
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Baker: “Nah because, not like that but it’s like all you have is one kid and
even if that one kid is like alright that’s cool but it’s like I don’t
know like, I only got one girl so like man I need, I need two more
kids though.”
Winans: “Oh no, no, oh yeah, I forgot, I forgot you only got JuJu I’m
tripping. Yeah no, that ain’t bad, three ain’t bad, three ain’t bad,
three ain’t bad.”
Baker: “Nah, I don’t plan on never not getting no money like the man as
long as you got some bread you should be, you should be cool.”
Winans: “Yeah no that shit, I be saying that shit I/A when you out because
they I/A.”
[Baker and Winans talking at the same time I/A]
Winans: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I/A bread and shit, that don’t be that much like man and my baby
momma be cool, like we not even together no more. My baby
momma still be cool. Like she still do S/L nice shit, I be able to
smack the shit out of her but that shit be cool.”
Winans: “No, you are I/A.”
Baker: (Chuckles) “Regular dumb ass shit though. I am about to get this
bitch out in Vegas pregnant, she’s bad as shit, oh my God.”
Winans: “Probably S/L cool whore.”
Baker: (Laughing/yelling bah ha) “You said she’s my cool whore.”
(Laughing) “No she’s not nigga.”
Winans: “How you know?”
Baker: “Ah you never know but like that bitch on vending machines all
across Las Vegas. She be on, she be on…”
Winans: “Well, what the fuck does that mean cause she’s on vending
machines don’t mean shit.”
Baker: “No, no, I’m not saying, I’m not saying that though I’m not saying
like to define a whore and shit. No, I said about you never know,
but I’m just saying like she ain’t she ain’t not on her shit. She be
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on her shit, that shit is good but she the bitch could be a whore
but I don’t think she is the way she carries herself, I don’t think
she is. Yo this dumb ass traffic but nah bro I’mma give, I’m about
to go out there and handle this I/A this honey shit bro but I swear
to God if this situate for this seven hundred shit don’t go through.”
Winans: “If that shit comes through I need a S/L bean. Oh you said if it
don’t come through or if it do?”
Baker: “Alright. Yeah, if it don’t come, yeah, if it do come through we off to
the races, but if it don’t come through.”
Winans: (speaking over Winans) “But if it do I need a beam bro.”
Baker: “Alright if it don’t come through bro, I’m coming back and I’m
planning with you bro.”
Winans: “Alright you can.”
Baker: “Alright with that fourteen shit, it’s like I’m cool, like come on you
niggas got drama with some dumb ass shit.”
Winans: “Yo I tried to buy I/A definitely gotta set something up though I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah either way I be cool with the weed. My man he a
grower so he give me the weed for four hundred dollars.”
Winans: “Yeah it’s good, I’m about to fly over there. Yo, alright I know I/A
what he trying to charge you for them?”
Baker: “He charge me the same price for all that shit, like three, four
hundred.”
Winans: “What? Oh yeah, it’s crazy that… I’m about to go um, I’m about to
go on a I/A my man got the same jawn like two fifty.”
Baker: “Yeah bro, for like, he got, he got his own farms. He gots two big
ass farms and he got workers. Man, he was telling me, we was out
there looking at all that shit. He gots workers, they were talking
about the water, the, the, the fucking lights, the water and the
lights and all that shit cause he got all that shit bro. He was
talking about the trimming and all that shit so he gave me the
weed for anything I want for real. So, man it’s like the weed, the
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weed I’m cool with the weed. I’m just trying to situate the ice cream
shit.”
Winans: “I/A”
Baker: “Huh, you wanna be a I/A again.”
Winans: “I/A hundred dollars on there I/A.”
Baker: “Mm.”
Winans: “Mm.”
Baker: “Damn I hope your cousin hurry the fuck up though. I have to be
at the airport 8 o’clock bro.”
Winans: “Oh no he gonna be there before that.”
Baker: “Yeah cause I gotta meet him, I gotta meet him.”
Winans: “Why you just don’t, you want me to just tell him meet you at I/A
the boulevard. The I/A is right around corner or something.”
Baker: “Yeah probably but I’m gonna keep it vague.”
Winans: “Yeah cause he gotta go to, he gotta go downtown anyway cause
you say you gotta go down south Philly anyway I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah cause I gotta, I gotta um I’m meeting the boys at Chickie’s
and Pete’s in South Philly like, you know that shits right next to
Live Casino so like he could, I could meet boy and he could be at
like Live Casino or some shit like that or it don’t matter he could
be right on the corner. It don’t fucking matter. I just texted bro and
asked him do he, do he got a ride and shit.”
Winans: “Mm I/A I’m gonna tell him to meet you at uh…”
Baker: “Chickie’s and Pete’s.”
Winans: “Oh you never went I/A Chickie’s and Pete’s.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Winans: “I/A”
Baker: “Yeah Chickie’s and Pete’s.”
Winans: “I/A parking lot, you talking about the big joint with the parking
lot.”
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Baker: “Yeah it’s in the parking lot, yeah in the plaza. The Chickie’s and
Pete’s in south Philly.”
Winans: “Alright I/A.”
Baker: “Alright good luck.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Call #4366
Winans: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: “I was calling I/A 63rd and Cobb Street, right?”
Baker: “Yeah tell him 63rd and Cobb Street I’mma meet him there and grab
the jawn from him cuz my white boul he just now leaving and I don’t
want, I don’t want folks just waiting and like, and then I got to get
on my flight I’m about to be at my crib and get ready I got to get on
my flight at eight.”
Winans: “Bro for all that you might as well give him the bread when he meet
up with you instead you coming back to meet him and all that shit
you might as well give him the bread now. That’s kind of I/A.”
Baker: “I/A. She don’t be that far I/A.”
Winans: “You heard me?”
Baker: “Yeah yeah yeah. Alright I’mma see I’mma see I might just have the
I/A out the crib cuz I’m not trying to, I don’t wanna give him the
bread and then fucking he don’t, he come late as shit and I’m gone
and I’m like yo I’m not like I/A.”
Winans: “If that’s the case then I just...I give it back to you. I mean I/A. S/L
if I’m not there. S/L Rob is saying he’s involved.”
Baker: “Yeah I know. I know and shit.”
Baker: “Alright I/A tell him, yeah, tell him to go to 63rd and shit.”
Winans: “Alright I’m about to call him.”
Baker: “Alright.”
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CALL #4373
Winans: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: “Yea.”
Baker: “Where folks at my player said he like fifteen twenty minutes away?”
Winans: “Yo, your you got to be there by eight that shit over.”
Baker: “I don’t got be there, you know my flight at, my flight at ten o’clock
like fifteen twenty.”
Winans: “What, bro this whole time I’ve been uh you’re good tonight not know
what the fuck bro I think you had to leave at like 8 I/A no bullshit
about it I/A.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool, I just wanted to shoot thru I/A if my playa only
like five ten minutes we can, me and him can sit wait for boul wait
for him to pull up.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright and shit, Alright just call yoe yea my flight at ten o’clock I
just I don’t wanna be like last I just I just miss my last flight shitting
me mad as shit ah I hate missing flights.”
Winans: “Alright you good, you good.”
Baker: “That should be banging but alright just call me when you know he
close or something.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #4380
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: “Yo it say, it say he there. He said he at the gas station.”
Baker: “S/L hold up, what you say?”
Winans: “He said he there he at the gas station. He in a white Chrysler.”
Baker: “At the gas station? What gas station?”
Winans: “I don’t know bro, I don’t fucking know I/A.”
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Winans: “I/A”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “What’s up where you at?”
U/M: “I’m at the gas station.”
Baker: “Which one? Which gas station?”
U/M: “The green jawn. The uh Gas Go.”
Baker: “63rd and Chestnut?!”
U/M: “You where?”
Baker: “You on 63rd and Chestnut?”
U/M: “Hold on.”
Baker: “That’s the gas station...what’s up mom?”
U/F: “Pull your car in.”
Baker: “I’m driving my car.”
U/F: “You’re driving it? Oh.”
Baker: “What you on 63rd and Chestnut? That gas station?”
U/M: “Near the I/A or whatever.”
Baker: “Yeah you near the L and shit you over there. Damn. Alright. Fuck
fuck fuck fuck fuck.”
U/M: “Just send your location.”
Baker: “Alright this is what I’m about do. I’mma share my location with you.
Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Yo Mirr?”
Winans: “Yo?”
Baker: “Yo you know I/A I’m at my mom’s, I’m at my mom’s crib, you think
he’ll come to the gas station where me and you met a while ago?
Remember?”
Winans: “I don’t I/A the address or something.”
Baker: “That Sunoco jawn that Sunoco gas station.”
Winans: “Send the address. Send me an address bro.”
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Baker: “I/A I’m about to send it to you right now.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Call #4383
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: “He there.”
Baker: “Yea, ahright I coming down the street.”
Winans: “I don’t think I see you I/A ...huh…you hear me?”
Baker: “Yea.”
Winans: “Alright I’ll send him there.”
Baker: “Alright I’m about to come down the street.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Call #4389
Winans: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Winans: “Yea.”
Baker: “Twenty fifty right....Yo.”
Winans: “I’m tryin to think, cause I gotta pay him I’m trying to think cause I
gotta gotta pay him cause he doing it.”
Baker: “Alright wanna do twenty one?”
Winans: “nah, nah we got to do twenty one but yea cause I got to pay him
to do it cause I, cause I pay him to basically do everything for me.”
Baker: “Alright and shit, what you want to do twenty one twenty one
fifty?”
Winans: “Yea, yea, twenty nah just twenty one twenty one cuz.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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CALLS #4392, 4393, AND 4394 ON DOCKET #38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY
18, 2022, BETWEEN 8:16PM AND 8:17PM, A SERIES OF INCOMING TEXT
MESSAGES FROM CASHAPP, 833-417-2274, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
CashApp (Call #4392): “Cash App: Rob Smarra sent you $1,000”
CashApp (Call #4393): “Cash App: Rob Smarra sent you $1,000”
CashApp (Call #4394)11: “Cash App: Rob Smarra sent you $1,000”
Based on the above calls and CashApp payments to Baker from “Rob
Smarra,” coupled with the facts of this investigation, it is your affiants’ opinion
that these CashApp payments were payments made by Rob Smarra Jr. for the
purchase of the drugs sold to him by Baker and delivered through Jhamir
Winans.
Surveillance of Baker, Smarra Jr., and Male, believed to be Mangum
At approximately 7:26PM, Detective Fuentes observed a white Chrysler (PA
registration LTT-5312) parked on the side of the Gas & Go located at 6243
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. A check through PennDOT showed that the
vehicle was registered to Antione Mangum Jr., 5901 Baytnon Street,
Philadelphia. Your affiants know through social media posts that Mangum is an
associate of Winans. On November 14, 2021, Winans, through his Instagram
account “Mirr.21” posted an image of a group of males, including Winans,
Quarles Jr., and Antione Mangum (male being hugged in picture flaunting US
Currency).
11 Your affiants are unable to determine if the three text messages were each related to a separate $1000 transaction or if there was one transaction followed by duplicate text messages.
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Mangum’s Chrysler was parked on the back side of the store away from
the gas pumps and was occupied by one person. At approximately 7:42PM, the
Chrysler departed the Gas & Go and was followed by surveillance to the area of
the Sunoco gas station located at 401 E. Baltimore Pike East Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania.
At approximately 7:56PM, fixed surveillance observed Baker leave 57
Melrose Avenue in his Dodge Charger (LST-5730). Shortly after, Detective
Daywalt observed Baker arrive and parked his Dodge Charger off the corner of
Melrose Avenue and Baltimore Pike. Baker exiting his Dodge and entered the
corner store near his vehicle. At approximately 8:09PM, Detective Fuentes
observed a male arrive in the immediate area of Melrose Avenue and Baltimore
Pike as a passenger in a grey Chrysler (NJ registration C92MTC). A check of NJ
registration C92MTC showed that it was registered to Lois Colon of Berlin, New
Jersey. The male passenger exited the Chrysler and entered Baker’s Dodge
Charger via the front passenger side. Shortly after, Baker returned to his vehicle,
entered the driver’s seat, and met with the male who arrived in the grey Chrysler.
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At approximately 8:14PM, Detective Daywalt observed Baker exiting his
Dodge with a large amount of United States currency and approached Mangum’s
Chrysler.
Mangum’s Chrysler was then followed by surveillance to the area of Race
Street & Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Chrysler was observed
picking up an unidentified male on Race Street just off Broad Street. The male
was driven approximately two blocks and then dropped off. The Chrysler was
then followed out of the city of Philadelphia.
CALL #534 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022 AT 9:07
PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-257-6272, A PHONE USED BY
ZYAIRA MACKLIN, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
Macklin: “Hello?”
Winans: “Yo.”
Macklin: “Yea?”
Winans: “Fuck you doin?”
Macklin: “Nothing, I was laying down”
Winans: “Yo, I/A about to come there and bring some money there.”
Macklin: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
At approximately 9:25PM, Mangum’s Chrysler arrived at the Cirro
apartment complex located at 625 S. Goddard Boulevard King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania. It should be noted that this is where Quiles is known to live and
the former apartment of Winans. The Chrysler entered the parking garage
attached to said complex. Detective Daywalt was able to enter the garage and
observed the Chrysler parked on the fifth floor unoccupied.
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At approximately 9:40PM, Mangum’s Chrysler exited the parking garage
and was followed by surveillance where it arrived at 181 N. Pottstown Pike Exton
Pennsylvania at 9:55PM. It should be noted that this is the location of Winans
apartment. At approximately 9:56PM, Detective Laverty observed the male
operator of the Chrysler exiting the vehicle. Detective Laverty was unable to see
the operator’s face but reported that he fit the description of the registered owner,
Antione Mangum. Detective Laverty observed the male carrying a box that was
approximately 12”x12”x6” in size and entering a door in the rear of the building.
At approximately 10:02PM, the same male exited the apartment building and
departing in the Chrysler. Mangum’s Chrysler was then followed as it returned
towards Philadelphia.
Summary of Baker’s Drug Deal with Smarra Jr.
Based on the above series of intercepted communications between Baker
and “Rob Bro Bro” and Baker and Winans, the surveillance of Baker, Smarra Jr.,
and the male, believed to be Antione Mangum, coupled with your affiants
training, knowledge, and experience and the facts of this investigation, it is your
affiants’ opinion that Baker again conducted a drug transaction with Smarra Jr.
However, as Baker was out of drugs for sale, he contacted Winans to purchase
drugs. Winans sent a male, believed to be Antione Mangum, to meet with Baker
and give Baker the drugs which Baker then sold for a profit to Smarra Jr. Baker
then paid the male, believed to be Antione Mangum, for the drugs. After being
paid, the male, believed to be Antione Mangum, traveled to Winans’ apartment
in Exton and left a box inside. Your affiants believe that this was a “money drop”
or the male leaving money in Winans’ apartment.
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ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL FOUR – FEBRUARY
25, 2022
On February 24, 2022, Baker reached out to an unknown female, believed
to be Angelina Smarra, a relative of Robert Smarra Jr. During the voice call,
Baker asked to speak to “Rob” because he wanted to get the rest of the money
from him. The female responded that “Rob” was working, but she would try
calling “Rob’s” dad to try to get ahold of him.
CALL #1034 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022 AT
9:04AM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 856-282-6450, A PHONE USED BY
AN UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE ANGELINA SMARRA, A RELATIVE
OF ROBERT SMARRA JR., FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER:
00:56 - 02:20
Baker: “But look Rob there, cause I got to come there get the rest of that
money from him.”
U/F: “Um, like he’s not here right this minute but I know he should be
back soon, um what where you gonna come here on your way back
from the airport.”
Baker: “Yea, I just I’m at the airport now I was just gonna hurry up and
make my way over there.”
U/F: “Alright yea let me, let me call him and um....”
Baker: “You think, you think.”
U/F: “Actually you know what he’s probably not gonna answer he’s not
gonna answer cause he was working but um I call his dad and try
to ahold of him.”
Baker: “Oh he at work hold on, he at work right now or is he um out right
now like if I make my way up there..agh fuck.”
U/F: “I/A and I know he’s got a dentist appointment in a little bit.”
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Baker: “Oh my God, aight shit...”
U/F: “Alright let me um…”
Baker: “If I/A call him call me back.”
U/F: “Alright I will.”
Baker: “Cause I need to, I need to get something from him too do he got,
yea you don’t think he got any more work left.”
U/F: “The what?”
Baker: “Yall got any more work left?”
U/F: “I have no idea, I mean I can find out.”
Baker: “I need a, I need a favor from him too cause I don’t got nothing left I
wanna see if I can just borrow, I can, like get two, two ounces from
him real quick. Damn alright just just call him call me back tell him
to call.”
U/F: “Yea, I will.”
Baker: “Tell him to call me, tell him I need to hear from him ASAP though I
really need a favor from him, I really need.”
U/F: “Alright, I will.”
Baker: “Alright, thanks sis.”
U/F: “You’re welcome.”
Baker: “Alright.”
It is your affiants’ opinion that the above voice call corroborates their
opinion that phone number 267-995-0512 was being used by Robert Smarra Jr.
and that Smarra Jr. and Baker were involved in criminal activities.
On February 25, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro,” again reached out
to Baker on the “money maker” phone to trade Percocets 20mg pills for “one.”
The intercepted communications and GPS coordinates are as follows:
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CALLS #1224 AND 1236 ON DOCKET #38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 25,
2022, BETWEEN 6:25PM AND 8:44PM, AN INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE AND
OUTGOING VOICE CALL FROM/TO 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY
ROBERT SMARRA JR., TO/FROM 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
Smarra (Call #1224): “Yo pop”
Call #1236
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo what’s up Rob?”
Smarra: “Yo I got um…”
Baker: “What’s up with you?”
Smarra: “Did you um, you want, um, 120 perks?”
Baker: “You said what?”
Smarra: “Um, like the perc 20s?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “120 of em.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright I got, I got that for you.”
Baker: “They real? They real?”
Smarra: “Huh? Yeah.”
Baker: “Where, you at the house?”
Smarra: “Uh huh.”
Baker: “Alrightttt, Imma, umm I can come to the house?”
Smarra: “I/A”
Baker: “I might grab them, Imma see what up with them jawns. You good,
you good right now, aint you?”
Smarra: “What do you mean?”
Baker: “I said you good right now, you don’t need nothing right now do
you?”
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Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright, you said oh you good, so I’m not gonna come with nothing
is what I’m getting at?”
Smarra: “You said what?”
Baker: “I said I’m not gonna come with nothing. That’s why I’m saying you
good, right?”
Smarra: “No, can you come with something?”
Baker: “What you needed?”
Smarra: “You, you got one?”
Baker: “Uh, it’s, it don’t matter cause I can just pick it up from my man and
shit, um, like whatever you needed.”
Smarra: “Yeah, can you, do you mind bringing one?”
Baker: “Alright I got you.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright bro I’ll see you in a little bit.”
Baker: “Alright.”
GPS coordinates from Baker’s “Money Maker” cellphone on February 25,
2022
A review of GPS locations associated with Baker’s cellphone (267-670-
4429) on February 25, 2022, showed that at 10:39PM, 10:54PM, and 11:24PM
Baker’s cellphone was in close proximity to 544 Berlin Road, Clementon, New
Jersey 08021. The GPS location at 10:39PM was within 3 meters of GPS
coordinates (39.800860,-74.972913) which is approximately located at 544
Berlin Road, Clementon, New Jersey 08021.
Baker’s receipt of pills from Smarra Jr. was further supported by a voice
call between Baker and Quintana where Quintana told Baker that she needed
four. The conversation was as follows:
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CALL #5674 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022 AT 9:05
PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY
TRVINIA QUINTANA, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Quintana: “Hello? Yo.”
Baker: “Yo.”
Quintana: “My bad.”
Baker: “Where you at?”
Quintana: “I’m, I’m bout to, I’m on 69th street right now. I just got the, I just
got on 69th street.”
Baker: “Were you about to go?”
Quintana: “I was about to go to Ross, where you at?”
Baker: “You got JuJu with you?”
Quintana: “Yeah I got JuJu with me.”
Baker: “Alright, you about to go to Ross too?”
Quintana: “Yeah.”
Baker: “What you, how many you wanted?”
Quintana: “Uhhh, I think 4.”
Baker: “Alright, I gonna just meet you at Ross.”
Quintana: “Yeah if you can that that’ll be cool to I/A that be good.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Quintana: “My phone wasn’t connecting, I wasn’t gonna, I was trying to answer
it but sometimes this jawn be acting stupid for real, uhhh…”
Baker: “What is it just you and JuJu?”
Quintana: “Huh, uh me uh B umm and Ciani and JuJu, I’m about to park right
here, I don’t even feel like going in that parking lot.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Quintana: “Yeah I probably should have tried to go a little closer but, ohh when
did, when did they make a dollar store on 69th street. Whattt?
(laughing)”
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Baker: “Is you at the dollar store at the corner?”
Quintana: “No there’s one right here next to Easy Pickings, right across the
street from um, from that suit store and stuff, from foot, you know
what I’m saying, like right next to Easy Pickings, Ross then there’s
a dollar store then there’s Easy Pickings. And next to, remember
shoe carnival?”
Baker: “Oh.”
Quintana: “That’s so strange, but they, I don’t know what that was that was
there before but I really did not uhhh, notice that they was working
on that. It, it say dollar deal it’s like a dollar store it sell balloons shit
like that, real convenient little jawn. I don’t know how much of a
dollar store it is but it say dollar deals, something like, it definitely
look like a dollar store.”
Baker: “Alright, Imma meet you at Ross like…”
Quintana: “Ok.”
Based on the above voice calls, GPS coordinates of Baker’s cellphone, and
your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that Baker
and Robert Smarra Jr. conducted a drug transaction on February 25, 2022,
where Smarra Jr. provided Baker 120 “percs”, which your affiants know to be
short for “Percocet”, a brand name for Oxycodone pills. This opinion is supported
by Call #5674 on Docket 38-1 where Trivinia Quintana tells Baker she wants
“four,” which your affiants know from this investigation and the context of this
and prior calls to refer to pills, believed to be Oxycodone.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL FIVE – FEBRUARY
26, 2022
On February 26, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro,” again reached out
to Baker on the “Money Maker” phone for “two.” As detailed in this affidavit, just
prior to the below drug deal, Quiles picked up a package from California and
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subsequently met with Baker at 57 Melrose Avenue.
CALLS #1280, 1305, 1317, 1325, AND 1359 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 26, 2022 BETWEEN 9:12AM AND 4:44PM, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT
SMARRA JR., AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smarra (Call #1280): “Yo yo”
Baker (Call #1305): “Yo it’s around”
Smarra (Call #1317): “Bet”
Call #1325
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo Rob.”
Smarra: “What up though?”
Baker: “What’s up, I’m about to be on my way. You at the crib?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “You still want the one, or you wanted more?”
Smarra: “Oh.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “Uh, yeah, I can do, I can do two.”
Baker: “You can do two?”
Smarra: “Yeah, is that what you, you cool with that?”
Baker: “Uh yeah Imma bring two for you, I got you.”
Smarra: “Alright, you alright?”
Baker: “Yeah I’m good. Alright give me like, give me like an hour, I’ll be
there.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Baker (Call #1359): “10 min”
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Surveillance of Baker and Robert Smarra Jr. on February 26, 2022
Surveillance officers were dispatched to 544 Berlin Road, Clementon, New
Jersey. At approximately 4:10PM, Detectives Lavin and Stanley arrived in the
area of 544 Berlin Road and set up surveillance.
When Detectives Lavin and Stanley first arrived at 544 Berlin Road, there
was a male, believed to be Robert F. Smarra Jr., in the driveway of the residence.
There was also a black Cadillac sedan backed in the driveway near the detached
garage. Smarra Jr. appeared to be working on, and at times riding a dirt bike
and a 4-wheeler on the property.
At approximately 4:49PM, Detective Lavin observed Baker’s white Dodge
Charger, Pennsylvania Registration LMS-5730, pull into the driveway of 544
Berlin Road. Detective Lavin observed Baker open and access the trunk to his
vehicle, and then he walked towards the detached garage. At approximately
4:53PM, Detective Lavin observed Baker and the male, believed to be Smarra Jr.,
walk from the area of the detached garage into the residence through the side
door nearest the driveway.
At approximately 5:38PM, Detective Lavin observed the male, believed to
be Smarra Jr., Baker, and a female exit the residence through the same side
door they originally entered. Smarra Jr. and the female walked back towards the
detached garage and Baker got into the driver’s seat of his white Dodge Charger.
A short time later, Baker backed out of the driveway and was followed away from
the home by Detective Stanley.
Based on the above voice call, GPS coordinates of Baker’s cellphone,
surveillance of Baker and Smarra Jr., and your affiants’ training, knowledge,
and experience, it is their opinion that Baker and Robert Smarra Jr. conducted
a drug transaction on February 26, 2022, at 544 Berlin Road.
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ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL SIX; SOLD BY
BAKER AND SUPPLIED BY QUILES – FEBRUARY 28,
2022
On February 28, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro,” again
communicated with Baker on the “Money Maker” phone for “half a P,” which
your affiants’ opine was in reference to the sale of half a pound of
methamphetamine from Baker to Smarra Jr.
In the afternoon of February 28, 2022, Zachary Smith reached out to
Baker requesting a scale and a “half a pound,” believed to refer to marijuana.
CALL #6181 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 28, 2022, AT
2:14PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED
BY ZACHARY SMITH, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “Yo bro where you at?”
Baker: “Uh I’m in the I/A right now I/A real quick.”
Smith: “Alright that’s good. Uh, you got a scale in the crib?”
Baker: “Yeah. I/A of course.”
Smith: “I got, I’m just making sure cause I got a half a pound set for.
Somebody wanna buy a half a pound of the ice I/A.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “I got em man, I got em buying that shit for five hundred.”
Baker: “Alright that’s it.”
Smith: “So what I’m I/A actually be in the county. But it’s for like, it’s gonna
be around like four o’clock. So what I’m gonna do is, I’m pulling up
to your mom crib again?”
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Baker: “Yeah. And that’s cool cause I gotta be, I gotta be back down here
about four o’clock too.”
Smith: “Alright so just hey, just, just do me a favor. I gotta run up the
Northeast, I gotta run up Frankford right.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Can you just? Can you just have the jawn ready already?”
Baker: “Yeah. You said you gotta go to Frank, you said you gotta do a four
o’clock?”
Smith: “I’m gone, I’m gone up Frankford right now. I’m bout to go up
Frankford. I got, I gotta go pick up some bread and bust a move for
a I/A right.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Once I go through that. Once I go through that I’m coming straight
to you.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool. Cause I’m…”
Smith: “I’m ah be, I’m ah be to you within. I’m ah be, I’m ah be to you
within like the next hour.”
Baker: “Alright I gotta go down, I gotta go down I/A to pay my um, rent for
my salon and shit. And when I’m on my way back.”
Smith: “But you don’t wanna bring a whole, you don’t wanna bring a whole
half a pillow all the way up, up, up north though.”
Baker: “No. I/A fuck no. Naw, I’m ah. If you gotta come back down here, I
want, we gonna come back down here and meet up.”
Smith: “Yeah, that’s what I’m ah do. So, alright.”
Baker: “I/A.”
Smith: “However it go. Even if I gotta wait.”
Baker: “I/A.”
Smith: “For you up there. I’m gonna go straight from when I bust this move
oh, up to your mom crib. I/A.”
Baker: “Alright. Alright.”
Smith: “Alright. Yo, you still trying to go running right?”
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Baker: “You said what?”
Smith: “We still go, we still go for a run, right?”
Baker: “What you mean a run, you talking about working out?”
Smith: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Oh yeah. I’m ready. Yeah.”
Smith: “Ah, alright I’m just making sure bro.”
Baker: “Alright, yeah.”
Smith: “Cause I’m dressed. I/A.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Yeah. I/A.”
Around the same time as Baker was communicating with Zachary Smith,
he also was arranging, what your affiants believe to be, a drug deal with Robert
Smarra Jr.
CALLS #1572, 1576, 1590, 1592, AND 1595 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 28, 2022, BETWEEN 1:13PM AND 5:35PM, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT
SMARRA JR., AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #1572
Smarra: “Yo what’s up?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much and shit bro. Ayo bro did you ever get them percs?”
Smarra: “Uh I didn’t even fucking…I forgot about that.”
Baker: “She never came through?”
Smarra: “Nah I totally forgot. Oh yeah let me hit that up real quick.”
Baker: “Yeah hit her up I might need to grab them jawns.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Later.”
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Call #1576
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo Rob.
Smarra: Yo Rob.”
Smarra: “Yo. What up bro?”
Baker: “You get in contact with her?”
Smarra: “Yeah she fucking… she bullshit.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “Her dude…she got she got them thirty jawns right right? She want
uhm, for 150 of them, she wants fucking fifty a piece I’m like
you’re fucking out of your mind.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “So I’m like you fucking...(laughter) bitch.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “I literally just got off the phone with her like a couple of seconds
ago. I was just going to call you.”
Baker: “You fuck with her, you fuck with her bro? We could rob that
bitch.”
Smarra: “No. We can, yeah. Fucking A.”
Baker: “S/L you know me with it I don’t give a fuck.”
Smarra: (Laughter)
Baker: “S/L She didn’t have the 20’s no more either?”
Smarra: “Huh?”
Baker: “S/L She didn’t have the 20’s no more either?”
Smarra: “Nah.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “That was one of her peoples I guess.”
Baker: “Hmm.”
Smarra: “We could we could uhh…we could do something I/A if you want.
You want me to set that up?”
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Baker: “Oh I forgot I still got that...Bro S/L you want this half of P?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I forgot all about that shit. Alright. Alright I’m about to finish little
running around I’mma, uhh I/A. I’mma either pull up on you or
S/L if it’s easier you can come down to me.”
Smarra: “Alright. Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright. Yeah let me see if I can get a wheel.”
Baker: “What’s up with your caddy? Your caddy don’t work at all?”
Smarra: “Nah it works I just need to get it registered.”
Baker: “Oh yeah you do S/L gotta get that jawn. I forgot I forgot about
that. Alright and shit. Alright I’mma call you.”
Smarra: “Alright pimp.”
Baker: “Alright let me know when you get a ride.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Later.”
Call #1590 – Outgoing call from Baker to Smarra Jr. – no answer
Call #1592 – Outgoing call from Baker to 856-282-6450
U/F: “Hello, hello.”
Baker: “Hey S/L Monk.”
U/F: “Who’s this?”
Baker: “This Black.”
U/F: “Um.”
Baker: “Huh.”
U/F: “Hey what’s up?”
Baker: “Hey what’s up, um Rob there?”
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U/F: “Yeah hold on.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Know what let me call you right back cause he’s in the garage and
the phone’s not gonna reach out there.”
Baker: “Alright, ask...”
U/F: “I’ll have, I’ll have, I’ll have him come inside.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Umhum hum, did you try his phone?”
Baker: “Yea called him he didn’t pick up.”
U/F: “It’s prob cause it’s on vibrate because his baby mom just left him,
she kind of like pissed off a little bit.”
Baker: “Alright, I just wanna to see if he wanted me still come up there.”
U/F: “OK um yea let me um, let me run up there and then I’ll, I’ll call
you right back if anything.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Let you know, K.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “OK.”
It should be noted that this call was between Baker and an unknown
female, believed to be Angelina Smarra, a relative of Robert Smarra Jr. During
the call, Baker asked to talk to “Rob.”
Call #1595
Baker: “Yo.”
Smarra: “Yo what up I/A.”
Baker: “Yo what’s up with you?”
Baker: “You still want me to bring this um jawn down?”
Smarra” “Yeah.”
Baker: “Oh you do?
Smarra: “What the jawn?”
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Baker: “Yeah, the half a jawn.”
Smarra: “Hell yeah.”
Baker: “Alright that’s it I’m about to be on my way down.”
Smarra: “Oh you’re coming down this way?
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Alright, bet.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “Yeah I was looking for a fucking wheel.”
Smarra: “I was about to ride my dirt bike to you, fuck it.”
Baker: “That shit, what the fuck.”
Baker: “How you gonna cross the bridge there nigga?”
Smarra: (Laughing) “I’m fucking covered up what do you mean I ain’t gonna
stop for no toll.”
(Laughing)
Baker: “You shit is tripping dog ah god.”
Smarra: “Fuck that.”
Baker: “You couldn’t find a ride?”
Smarra: “No.”
Baker: “Ah god.”
Smarra: “Tell me about (sigh) man.”
Smarra: “But yeah.”
Baker: “Alright I/A.”
Smarra: “Alright I’m hear.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright good luck dog.”
Surveillance of Baker meeting with Joshua Quiles – February 28, 2022
On February 28, 2022, fixed surveillance on Melrose Avenue observed
Baker arrive in a silver Ford Explorer operated by Zachary Smith at
approximately 5:23PM. After parking, Baker and Smith exit the vehicle and
stand outside. At approximately 5:24PM, a white Jeep Grand Cherokee, later
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identified as Quiles’ vehicle (PA Registration LRR5284), parked directly in front
of Smith’s Ford Explorer. A check of LRR5284 through PennDOT records showed
that it was registered on a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee to Luz Kuilan, 2613 N. 8th
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123. It should be noted that Kuilan is believed to be
Quiles’ mother and the address is the same address listed on Quiles’ driver’s
license.
Upon Quiles’ arrival, Baker walked over to the passenger door, opened the
door of the Jeep, leaned in and interacted with the vehicle’s operator. Smith
stood away from the vehicle on the sidewalk. Less than a minute later, Baker
exited Quiles’ vehicle and walked into 57 Melrose Avenue. Smith walked back
and forth between his vehicle and 57 Melrose Avenue and then eventually
entered the driver’s seat of his vehicle. At approximately 5:29PM, Baker exited
57 Melrose Avenue carrying a white plastic bag. He placed the bag inside Smith’s
vehicle and then entered the front passenger seat of Quiles’ vehicle. At
approximately 5:38PM, Baker exited Quiles’ vehicle and entered the front
passenger seat of Smith’s vehicle. At 5:40PM, Quiles’ vehicle departed the area.
Shortly after, Baker exited Smith’s vehicle, leaving the white plastic bag inside
the vehicle, and Smith departed the area.
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It should be noted that through fixed surveillance, a crack/smudge was
visible on the vehicle’s front windshield and the expiration dates on the vehicle’s
inspection stickers displayed May 2022.
GPS coordinates from Baker’s “Money Maker” cellphone on February 28,
2022
A review of GPS locations associated with Baker’s cellphone (267-670-
4429) on February 28, 2022, showed that at 6:54PM, 7:09PM, AND 7:24PM
Baker’s cellphone was in close proximity to 544 Berlin Road, Clementon, New
Jersey 08021. The GPS location at 7:24PM was within 3 meters of GPS
coordinates (39.80090,-74.973021) which is approximately located at 544 Berlin
Road, Clementon, New Jersey 08021.
After meeting with Smarra Jr., Baker placed on outgoing call to Robert
Smarra Jr. which your affiants believe showed that Baker and Smarra Jr. are
involved in “ice” or methamphetamine trafficking.
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CALL #1644 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 28, 2022, AT
7:36PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED
BY ROBERT SMARRA JR., FROM PHONE 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED
BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Hey yo look I want to ask you with the E Bomb bro you think you
can like start a crazy flow with that I/A like with the ice, you think
you can get ah.”
Smarra: “Ah yea, yea, by far.”
Baker: “You can.”
Smarra: “Absolutely.”
Baker: “Alright that might be our new, that might be another good landing
might help us through and shit. Cause I can get em I can get them
all the time just I don’t be..like i need a line and shit you got to
leave me know what you can really like I don’t know cause I be
able, I be able to get the Molly the E bomb all that shit I just don’t
know where to knock them off at.”
Smarra: “I/A I got you.”
Baker: “Alright and shit Alright bet then ah next time we link up Imma
gonna um ah yea we’ll sit down talk some more about that shit I
got you though.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright bro, love it.”
Based on the above voice call and your affiants training, knowledge, and
experience, it is their opinion that Baker and Smarra Jr. were discussing “ice” or
methamphetamine sales and Baker asked if Smarra Jr. could sell ecstasy pills,
“E bombs,” as well as he sells the methamphetamine.
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Surveillance of Quiles’ Jeep on March 1, 2022
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022, Detective Laverty conducted surveillance of
Quiles’ Jeep Grand Cherokee (PA registration LRR5284) as it was parked in the
parking garage of the Cirro King of Prussia. Detective Laverty confirmed that the
Jeep captured by fixed surveillance on February 28, 2022, was Quiles’ vehicle.
Summary of Drug Deal between Baker and Smarra Jr. supplied by Quiles
Based on the above voice calls, GPS coordinates of Baker’s cellphone, prior
interactions between Baker and Smarra Jr., and your affiants’ training,
knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that Baker and Robert Smarra Jr.
conducted a drug transaction on February 28, 2022, at 544 Berlin Road.
Further, based on the meeting between Quiles and Baker, and the knowledge
that Quiles had recently received a three-pound methamphetamine shipment,
your affiants opine that the deal between Baker and Smarra Jr. was supplied by
Quiles.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL SEVEN – MARCH 3,
2022
On March 2 and 3, 2022, contact labeled, “Rob Bro Bro,” again
communicated with Baker on the “Money Maker” phone.
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CALLS #1677, 1718, 1720, 1727, 1729, AND 1731 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D.
2022 BETWEEN MARCH 2, 2022, AND MARCH 3, 2022, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT
SMARRA JR., AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smarra (Call #1677): “Yo yo”
Smarra (Call #1718): “Yo pop”
Call #1720
Smarra: “Yo yo.”
Baker: “Yo Rob bro what’s good with you bro?”
Smarra: “What’s good bro?”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “No. I/A.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Smarra: “I/A”
Baker: “Oh, oh if he I/A around?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Oh oh oh I/A yeah I think somebody about to come around, either
today or tomorrow.”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I wanted to see what’s up with you. Bro what you think be better:
the umm E-bomb or the Molly Cyrus?”
Smarra: “Probably half and half.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “Probably half and half.”
Baker: “Half and half?”
Smarra: “Yeah. Like I know a lot of people with like like I/A.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “Yeah yeah I know people for that too.”
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Baker: “Oh you said the E, the E is a big thing?”
Smarra: “It’s the most yeah, probably.”
Baker: “Ok. Ok. That’s, that’s, that’s the view I wanted to see and shit.
That’s what I wanted to see. Alright and shit. Alright and shit. I/A
Oh look I’mma…”
Smarra: “Yeah I mean, why what ya, what you pushing on up?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “What you, what you fuckin’ your, your crunch time on that?”
Baker: “What you talking about for the umm for the E-bombs?”
Smarra: “Yeah yeah.”
Baker: “For the E-bombs I told you I really on them jawns at least get like
like something 12 or 13 and shit like something in between that
like I/A.”
Smarra: “They go up a lot.”
Baker: “You want to do something with them real quick? I can umm… you
wanna grab some like or front you some too?”
Smarra: “Yeah I’ll, yeah I’ll grab that.”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “Yeah I’ll grab them too.”
Baker: “Alright well you I/A.”
Smarra: “And I, I…”
Baker: “What?”
Smarra: “And umm a, a fucking a thing of that other thing. The green.”
Baker: “Oh yeah what you want out of the green?”
Smarra: “The whole thing.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. You want me to umm. Alright you at the crib?”
Smarra: “Yeah I’m about to go riding right now.”
Baker: “Damn I wanna go riding (laughs).”
Smarra: “Ha ha ha ha!”
Baker: “Alright and shit. I wanna go ride.”
Smarra: “My little Meek Mill boy.”
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Baker: (Laughs)
Smarra: “Yo happy birthday bro, I didn’t get to hit you up yesterday.”
Baker: “Nah you good bro thanks man, I appreciate it.”
Smarra: “Yo I’m gonna fucking pass the fuck out.”
Baker: “I/A I slept like damn near half the day away and then I guess…”
Smarra: “You slept like half the day away too?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Jesus Christ.”
Baker: “When I was asleep I went… I mean I did something at nighttime
and shit.”
Smarra: “Yeah. Did you go out?”
Baker: “Yeah yeah. My ba- my baby momma did something for me at
night, umm at night we went out and shit. So that shit’s cool.”
Smarra: “That’s what’s up.”
Baker: “Yeah. And you see I/A.”
Smarra: “I’ll take you out to dinner man I/A.”
Baker: “Ha, that’s cool, that’s I/A.”
Smarra: “You gotta eat pork though.”
Baker: “Fuck man, you just fucking.”
Smarra: “Nah (laughs) you said no. That’s fucking funny. Yeah so I gotta
figure out fucking I/A eat. Bring your game I’ll get you whatever
you want.”
Baker: “Alright. Lemme uh this is what I’m about to do, I’m about to call
my man to see if any of the whatsitname around. Cause I know
you, I know you were talking about the, the ice cream cuz. You
hear me?”
Smarra: “No say it again.”
Baker: “I said I know you wanted the, the ice cream.”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “But uh let me see. What’s a good time to come up ‘cause you
about to go ride right now right?”
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Smarra: “Yeah I can, I can probably come to you too.”
Baker: “Right yeah that’d be cool. Yeah.”
Smarra: “Yeah yeah.”
Baker: “If you got the wheel that’d be cool. What’s a good, what’s a good
time to- cause you usually go out riding right?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Yeah so you gotta let me know.”
Smarra: “Yeah in a couple hours.”
Baker: “Oh you about to go out riding in a couple hours?”
Smarra: “No, no. Like, I’ll be back in a few hours.”
Baker: “Oh you’ll be back in a few hours… oh ok ok ok ok alright alright
alright. Alright well look I’m gonna jump in the I/A I’mma jump in
a couple hours and then I/A come up there. Either I can come up
there or you can come out here. Alright? Alright I/A.”
Call #1727
Smarra: “What up.”
Baker: “What’s up bro you back at the house?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “What’s that you, you saying… alright look this is what I’mma do
bro. Look, I’mma bout to bring all this shit over to you.”
Smarra: (Laughs) “Okay.”
Baker: “I’mma bout to bring this shit over to you so you can grab it from
me. But tom- look I’mma come there, I’mma come your way, I’mma
come to you tonight bro. But tomorrow you have to come to me
cause I’mma have the ice cream for you and shit so you gonna
have to come to me bro.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Yeah, alright.”
Smarra: “Yeah but- uh what you got tonight?”
Baker: “I’mma bring a pound and I’mma bring the e-bombs and shit.”
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Smarra: “No, no, no, no, no cold stuff?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Smarra: “No ice cream?”
Baker: “I can but I only got a couple ounces for you.”
Smarra: “Yo if you can, can I, can I grab ‘em?”
Baker: “Alright I got you then.”
Smarra: “I mean if, if, if you need it then don’t worry about it.”
Baker: “No, no, no, no, no you cool cuz yeah you good bro.”
Smarra: “Alright bet.”
Baker: “I’mma bring, I’mma bring everything I got with the ounces and
shit.”
Smarra: “Alright cool.”
Baker: “Alright so you at the house?”
Smarra: “Yeah. Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright so expect me about like a hour or so.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright brother.”
Smarra: “Good look.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “Alright late.”
Baker (Call #1729 9:56PM): “Omw bro”
Smarra (Call #1731): “Ok”
GPS coordinates from Baker’s “Money Maker” cellphone on March 3, 2022
A review of GPS locations associated with Baker’s cellphone (267-670-
4429) on March 3, 2022, showed that at 11:09PM, 11:24PM, and 11:39PM
Baker’s cellphone was in close proximity to 544 Berlin Road, Clementon, New
Jersey 08021. The GPS location at 11:39PM was within 3 meters of GPS
coordinates (39.800978,-74.972955) which is approximately located at 544
Berlin Road, Clementon, New Jersey 08021.
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Summary of drug deal between Baker and Smarra Jr.
Based on the above communications and your affiants’ training,
knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that on March 3, 2022,
Baker traveled to Berlin, NJ where he met with Robert Smarra Jr. to consummate
a drug transaction.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL EIGHT; SOLD BY
BAKER AND SUPPLIED BY QUILES – MARCH 4, 2022
On March 4, 2022, after Quiles picked up a shipment from 1906
Devereaux Avenue, Baker was followed to the alley behind 586 Sanger Street
where he stayed for only minutes. Surveillance followed Baker as he conducted,
what, in your affiants’ opinion are, drug transactions with Robert Smarra Jr. and
“John Wayne.” The Robert Smarra Jr. drug transaction and corresponding voice
calls follows.
CALL #1822 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022, AN OUTGOING
PHONE CALL TO 856-282-6450, A PHONE USED BY AN UNKNOWN FEMALE,
BELIEVED TO BE ANGELINA SMARRA, A RELATIVE OF ROBERT SMARRA
JR. AND USED BY ROBERT SMARRA JR., FROM 267-670-4429, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #1822
U/F: “Hello?”
Baker: “I/A”
U/F: “Hey.”
Baker: “Hey, what’s up? Rob there?”
U/F: “Um, let me go check the garage because he’s not in the house, hold
on one second.”
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Baker: “Alright. I/A”
Smarra: “Yeah, I’m fucking beat.”
Baker: “I/A beat.”
Smarra: “I’m fucking tired.”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “What are you doing?”
Baker: “I just woke up. I was tired too.”
Smarra: “I/A”
Baker: “I was tired I/A. I just went to sleep and shit and just woke back up.
For real for real.”
Smarra: “It don’t matter. Yeah?”
Baker: “Yeah. I got. Shit Uh, you still need that, that um jawn?”
Smarra: “The ice cream?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Yes sir.”
Baker: “So you got. You got a ride to, to down here?”
Smarra: “Yeah, I can get one.”
Baker: “If you can, that would be cool.”
Smarra: “Where you, where you at, the Suburbs?”
Baker: “It don’t matter. I can, I can meet you at I/A or Island Ave, it don’t
matter.”
Smarra: “Alright, fucking let me uh, let me make a phone call and uh I’ll let
you know what’s up.”
Baker: “Yeah, make a phone call and let me know if you are able um to get
over here or not.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright, call me.”
Smarra: “Alright, late.”
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CALLS #1820, 1834, 1836, 1842, 1846, 1848, 1850, 1852, 1864, 1866,
1868, 1870, 1875, 1878, AND 1891 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN
MARCH 4, 2022 AND MARCH 5, 2022, A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS
BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT SMARRA JR., AND
267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (Call #1820): “Yo bro wya”
Smarra (Call #1834): “My spot”
Baker (Call #1836): “You got a ride”
Smarra (Call #1842): “Workin on it now”
Smarra (Call #1846): “Yo yo. I got a ride”
Baker (Call #1848): “Rd I’m ready for u”
Smarra (Call #1850): “Where”
Smarra (Call #1852): “And how many”
Smarra (Call #1864): “??”
Baker (Call #1866): “Chickie and pet”
Baker (Call #1868): “I got one”
Smarra (Call #1870): “Ok”
Call #1875
Smarra: “Yo pop.”
Baker: “Yo, what’s up bro?”
Smarra: “Yo my ride will be here in a couple minutes.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Smarra: “My ride will be here in a couple of minutes I was gonna call you
when I’m I/A.”
Baker: “Alright yeah, call me, because in the, I’m not that far from
Chickie’s I just wanted to see so I know to stay in the area or
something.”
Smarra: “Yeah, stay in the area, please.”
Baker: “Alright, I got you.”
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Smarra: “Alright, good look bro.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Alright, you said one, right?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Call #1878
*No conversation. Baker can be heard in the background mentioning ounce
and grams*
Baker: “I/A that shit. That’s the one thing I/A…I/A…it’s still a ounce, it
still might take them over a I/A for a gram for…I/A.”
Call #1891
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smarra: “Yo. I’m on my way.”
Baker: “Oh you on your way?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “You might as well come to West Darby.”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Yeah”
Baker: “You know, you know, you know how to get there right?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright, just call me when you get close.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright. I’m waiting on you.”
Smarra: “Lit.”
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Summary of drug transaction between Baker and Smarra Jr.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with
the facts and circumstances of this investigation and the previous drug
transactions between Baker and Smarra Jr., it is their opinion that the above
voice calls are regarding a consummated drug transaction between Baker and
Smarra Jr. It is also the affiants’ opinion that Baker received the drugs he sold
to Smarra Jr. from Sanger Street, and therefore from Quiles.
ROBERT SMARRA JR. DRUG DEAL NINE; SOLD BY
BAKER AND SUPPLIED BY QUILES – MARCH 10, 2022
On March 10, 2022, after Quiles picked up a package shipped from Ricky
Evans from 614 Foulkrod Street, Philadelphia (Reference Quiles – Shipment #4),
he traveled to 586 East Sanger Street. Shortly after, Baker was followed by
surveillance from 57 Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne to 586 Sanger Street,
where your affiants opine that he met with Quiles. After leaving Quiles on Sanger
Street, Baker was followed by surveillance to New Jersey related to a drug
transaction, based on your affiants’ opinion, with Robert Smarra Jr.
CALL #2350 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 10, 2022 AT
13:39:29, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY
ROBERT SMARRA JR., FROM 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo Rob.”
Smarra: “What up though?”
Baker: “Ain't too much bro. What's going on?”
Smarra: “Chilling.”
Baker: “I/A”
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Smarra: “Just chilling. Fucking, building this guitar thing for my, for my
boy. I'm like building this guitar for my boy.”
Baker: “Oh, what you what you downstairs in the basement for building
the guitar?”
Smarra: “No, well, yeah, kinda, I/A it's upstairs.”
Baker: “You funny as shit but I just seen your text you trying to grab a
bow of the greenery?”
Smarra: “Yeah, but them fucking, they already got theirs, they already went
somewhere.”
Baker: “Aw, you should have called and told me bro.”
Smarra: “I did!”
Baker: “You gotta text me and be like I/A.”
Smarra: “I did!”
Baker: “Nah you text me and say yo bro. You gotta text me and be like,
nah mean, like, I/A like yo black I got, you heard?”
Smarra: “Yeah. This phone number went right to voicemail and I called
your other jawn.”
Baker: “Yeah, dang. I probably did, I probably, you probably did call your
jawn and I ain't get it though.”
Smarra: “Oh I know I did.”
Baker: “Yeah I know you called it but this I/A like like someone probably,
you say like, you know somebody selling grass, and I was like I
know like...”
Smarra: “Yeah true.”
Baker: “But uhm. Some of the ice that just came in, I'm about to call my
man first before I even grab, about to call my man and see if he
uhm, did he uhm, did he test them jawns out and shit before I go
and pick them up and bring them to you or whatever the case may
be.”
Smarra: “Right right right. Do you want me to test it?”
Baker: “Huh?”
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Smarra: “I even got the acetone and all that shit.”
Baker: “What, to test it?”
Smarra: “Yeah to, to do it.”
Baker: “Alright, I/A.”
Smarra: “Like, if you wanted me to do it, if he didn't already do it, I'll do it.”
Baker: “Nah, I ain't, I ain't do it yet because I ain't even grab it yet. But,
you wanna test it when I get over there?”
Smarra: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright. What you need me to bring two over?”
Smarra: “Uhm. Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. Alright, I'mma, uh, I/A when I come over. If you,
cause you dont need no, like gas or nothing like that, do you?”
Smarra: “No, not right now not this second.”
Baker: “Alright and shit it's cool.”
Smarra: “Cause I still got, I still got like a two left.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. What I was about to say, uhm. Alright, how long
you gonna be at the crib, what's you time looking like?”
Smarra: “Wait, I gotta go to the dentist at like, four thirty, I think? So, uh.”
Baker: “I can be to you before then.”
Smarra: “What time is it now?”
Baker: “I/A”
Smarra: “Oh, alright. Yeah, if you can that's cool.”
Baker: “What you want to do wanna do that?”
Smarra: “Yeah, yeah if you want to do that, or if you want to do it later, it
don't matter.”
Baker: “Nah I'd rather do it now because early, the traffic, and uhm, and
uhm, and I gotta do something later and shit.”
Smarra: “Alright. No worries dog.”
Baker: “Alright, you gonna be at the crib till like, at like four o'clock and
shit?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
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Baker: “Alright, alright that's cool. I'm about to I'm about to put
something together and head over.”
Smarra: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright bro.”
Smarra: “Alright, later.”
Based on the above voice call and the other communications between
Baker and Smarra Jr., it is your affiants’ opinion that they are discussing a drug
transaction of methamphetamine, “ice.” As Smarra Jr. complained about the
quality of the methamphetamine he received from Baker last time, Baker and
Smarra Jr. discussed Baker testing it prior to picking it up and Smarra Jr.
testing it with “acetate,” when Baker arrived. Your affiants know "acetate tests”
and “bleach tests” are common street methods of testing the purity of
methamphetamine. In an “acetone test”, one can pour acetone over
methamphetamine and the acetone soluble cutting agents will, in theory,
dissolve. Pure methamphetamine is not acetone solvent, and therefore when
acetone is poured on the methamphetamine the acetone solvent cutting agents
will dissolve, leaving only pure methamphetamine behind.
CALL #2384 ON DOCKET 38-6 2022 ON MARCH 10, 2022 AT 3:35PM, AN
OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT
SMARRA JR., FROM 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo Rob.”
Smarra: “What up dog?”
Baker: “Ain't too much I/A”
Smarra: “Chill.”
Baker: “Hey bro you still got your appointment jawn at um... at, at 4:30?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
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Baker: “Alright and shit 'cause I just grabbed the stuff now and I was
about to head over to you and shit. I was probably going to get
there around like 4, like, like by between 4 and 4:10.”
Smarra: “Like 4:10?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smarra: “Alright that's cool.”
Baker: “That's cool.”
Smarra: “Nah, maybe not.”
Baker: “Maybe not.” (laugh)
Smarra: “No that's alright, yeah that's, that's fine.”
Baker: “Dude what time, cause how long does it take you to get there.”
Smarra: “Where to the doctor's office, like fifteen minutes.”
Baker: (mumbling hey what's up?) “Nah I just, I just trying to see, I about
to leave, I'm about to leave right now and shit.”
Smarra: “Nah, you good, yeah your good.”
Baker: “Yeah?”
Smarra: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright and I'm already up this end like up on Philly, I'm at the top
end of Philly so I really just need to cross right over. I'm probably
even a little closer, for real, for real.”
Smarra: “Alright bet.”
Baker: “Yeah, but alright I got you. S/L See ya bro.”
Smarra: “Alright good luck pop.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smarra: “Alright, later.”
During the above call, Baker told Smarra Jr. that he “grabbed the stuff,”
believed to be referring to meeting with Quiles to pick up the drugs. Baker then
told Smarra Jr. that he was on his way to New Jersey.
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Call 2387
Smarra: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo Bro.”
Smarra: “Sup?”
Baker: “Yea, I'm like 5, like 15, 20, minutes away, bro, if I don't make it to
you in time, you just want me to leave it with the, with y'all girl?”
Smarra: “Yea, yea, that's what I was saying, you're all good.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Smarra: “I/A.”
Baker: “Oh, alright, I just want a backup plan in case I do miss you, I just
want to leave the jawn for you and shit, you heard me?”
Smarra: “Yea.”
Baker: “Aight, I'm on...I'm still, I'm on my way to you, I should make it
before you leave but if I don't it's gonna be there for you. You heard
me?”
Smarra: “Yea.”
Baker: “I know you're probably a little busy and shit.”
Smarra: “Ah, yea, I'm good.”
Baker: “Aight, I/A.”
Smarra: “Aight pop, I'll see you when you get here.”
Baker: “Aight.”
Surveillance of Tyrone Baker – March 10, 2022
Baker was tracked via physical and electronic surveillance from 57
Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne, to 586 Sanger Street, Philadelphia, and then
to the area of 544 Berlin Avenue, Clementon, New Jersey. Surveillance officers
set up in the area and observed Baker arrive at Robert Smarra Jr.’s residence,
544 Berlin Avenue, and enter the residence through the front door.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that Joshua Quiles received a shipment of methamphetamine from Ricky Evans,
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which he subsequently delivered, in part, to Tyrone Baker. After receiving the
methamphetamine from Quiles, Baker then delivered a portion of the drugs he
received to Robert Smarra Jr. in Clementon, NJ.
SAMIR PARRISH-STARR DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY
9, 2022
CALL #2725 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
5:54PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-616-1253, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, FROM 215-980-1764, A
PHONE UTLIZED BY TYRONE BAKER
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo man what’s good with you Brodie?”
U/M: “S/L what’s good gang?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much and shit.”
U/M: “I was about to call you in like an hour.”
Baker: “There’s some more of that shit around too.”
U/M: “Yeah, nah I gotta get with you.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. You do what you gotta do and shit (S/L) just hit
me back.”
U/M: “Alright. Uhm. Uhh what I was about to say. Oh, you got any uhm.
Hold on I’mma FaceTime you.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Answer your FaceTime.”
Baker: “Alright.”
CALL #2734 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
6:51PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-616-1253, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
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Baker: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “What’s up bro?”
U/M: “I/A.”
Baker: “Where you going to do that with? West?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I ain’t over there bro. I’m towards like, uhh… I’m in the county. But,
I can meet you toward like, like 63rd and Cobbs Creek. Like where
the playground at.”
U/M: “63rd and Cobbs Creek.”
Baker: “Umm… oh no actually I can, actually you want to meet at the gas
station? On Chestnut?”
U/M: “What and Chestnut?”
Baker: “On Cobbs Creek and Chestnut. It’s right around the corner from
uhh where I was meeting you and all that.”
U/M: “Oh you mean, yeah that’s like, that’s like 63rd and Chestnut,
right?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright I’m about to meet you over there.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #2739 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
7:05PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-616-1253 FROM 215-980-
1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yeah dawg.”
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Baker: “I just turned on 63rd, I’m coming down umm… I’m coming up and
about to turn on 63rd and shit.”
U/M: “Alright I’m, I’m inside the gas station.”
Baker: “Oh you inside the gas station? Alright and shit. Alright. I’ll, I’ll be
there in probably like, like 5 minutes.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
On February 9, 2022, at approximately 5:54PM during Call #2725, Baker
(215-980-1764) called an unknown male (267-616-1253) and stated that there
was “some more of that shit around.” Shortly thereafter they switched their
conversation to FaceTime. At 6:51PM (Call #2724), the unknown male (267-616-
1253) called Baker (215-980-1764). During the call they agreed to meet at the
gas station located at the corner of 63rd Street and Chestnut Street in
Philadelphia. The gas station was identified by surveillance as the “Gas n Go,”
6243 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Detectives Fuentes and Stanley immediately
responded to the Gas n Go, while Detectives Lavin and Daywalt remained in the
area of 57 Melrose Avenue.
At approximately 7:05PM, electronic surveillance observed Baker leave 57
Melrose Avenue in his white Dodge Charger (LMS-5730). At approximately
7:06PM (Call #2739), Baker called the unknown male and stated that he had
just turned onto 63rd Street and was five (5) minutes away. The unknown male
replied that he was already at the meeting location.
At approximately 7:12PM, Detectives Fuentes and Stanley observed Baker
arrive at the Gas n Go in his white Dodge Charger (LMS-5730). At approximately
7:18PM, Detective Fuentes observed Baker on the move, out of the parking lot of
the Gas n Go, and eastbound on Chestnut Street. When Baker was leaving the
parking lot, he was being followed by a silver Chevrolet Impala, Pennsylvania
Registration KXV-6147. A record check through the Pennsylvania Department of
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Transportation revealed the license plate on the Chevrolet Impala was a dead
tag, a tag that was not registered to any vehicle.
Detective Fuentes obtained video surveillance footage from the Gas N Go
gas station from February 9, 2022. It should be noted that the time stamp
displayed on the video was approximately 50 minutes ahead of actual time. At
approximately 7:12PM, the surveillance video showed Baker’s white Dodge
Charger pull into the gas pump area of the Gas N Go. Baker waived his hand
and motioned for the unknown male, believed to be Samir Parrish-Starr, exit his
Chevrolet Impala and come to his vehicle. Parrish-Starr exited the silver
Chevrolet Impala shown on the video and entered the front passenger seat of
Baker’s vehicle. At approximately 7:14PM, Parrish-Starr appeared to be counting
US Currency and then handed it to Baker. Parrish-Starr remained inside Baker’s
vehicle until approximately 7:17PM when he returned to his vehicle and departed
the area.
It should be noted that although Baker pulled into a spot at the gas
pumps, he did not exit his vehicle and did not pump any gas.
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At approximately 7:26 PM, electronic surveillance observed Baker arrive
home at 57 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania in his white Dodge
Charger.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that above-described incident was a drug transaction between Tyrone Baker and
the unknown individual, believed to be Parrish-Starr. Further, it is believed that
the drug transaction observed involved the suspected drugs shipped to Tyrone
Baker by Ricky Evans.
SAMIR PARRISH-STARR DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY
18, 2022
CALLS #4348 AND 4358 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 18,
2022, BETWEEN 6:07PM AND 6:29PM, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-
616-1253, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, FROM
215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #4348
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bud it’s a zone.”
U/M: “It’s a zone.”
Baker: “Yea.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “You want me to bring it or bring the half?”
U/M: “No, bring that jawn.”
Baker: “Alright I/A I’m leaving out now.”
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U/M: “Alright, fucking um...what I’m about to say, I’m gonna cash app
you the one twenty and then after I meet him I’m gonna cash app
you the rest.”
Baker: “Alright ain’t shit.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright How much I’m suppose to give you for the jawn one sixty
two or.”
Baker: “Yea, Just give me ah, you said...yea, that’s cool fuck it.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright, you at the um, you going through, you about to go see your
mom right.”
U/M: “Yea, I want me to leave now.”
Baker: “Yea, you leave now I’m about to leave the crib right now too.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #4358
Baker: “Yo dog.”
U/M: “Yo, Five Guys or ahh Pizza Hut.”
Baker: “It don’t matter um I’m...I’m about this come out this jawn I probably
be aghhh we can do Pizza Hut, um yea we can do Pizza Hut.”
U/M: “Alright how far are you?”
Baker: “I ain’t that far, I’m, I’m like what five minutes not even that.”
U/M: “Alright, I’m pulling in there.”
Baker: “Alright.”
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CALL #4360 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022, AT
6:35PM, AN INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE FROM CASHAPP, 833-417-2274,
TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
CashApp (Call #4360): “Cash App: Top Monkey sent you $160.”
Summary of second incident between Baker and Parrish-Starr on February
18, 2022
Based on the above communications and CashApp payment to Baker and
their training, knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that on
February 18, 2022, Baker and the unknown male, believed to be Samir Parrish-
Starr, conducted a drug transaction in the area of Pizza Hut Express in Lower
Merion Township, Montgomery County.
SAMIR PARRISH-STARR DRUG DEAL THREE, FOUR,
AND FIVE: MARCH 2, 3, AND 5, 2022
CALL #6511 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, AT
12:39PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-616-1253, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “What’s up with you?”
U/M: “It ain’t shit I’m in the county I should be there in like, like
seven, eight minutes.”
Baker: “Alright and shit (clears throat) it’s the- it’s the gas station
and shit I’mma just meet you over there.”
U/M: “Alright.”
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CALL #6513 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, AT
12:49PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-616-1253 A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Bro you talking about the Sunoco?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright yeah I already passed that jawn. I’m about to turn in there
right now.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #6517 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 2, 2022, AT
12:52PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-616-1253, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, FROM 215-980-1764, A
PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo man.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “You said the I/A across the street?”
U/M: “Across the street, are you sitting in the turning lane?”
Baker: “In the turning lane? Where are you? In the middle of the jawn?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. Um, so you want to come up the street and pick
me up?”
U/M: “Don’t matter. Uh, towards 7-11?”
Baker: “Yeah. I/A oh that’s you up the street bro?”
U/M: “I/A”
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Baker: “Why you up there? I don’t know why you do that.”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “You ain’t at the 7-11, you at the Sunoco up there I’m down the
street I’m at the other Sunoco.”
U/M: “Alright so.”
Baker: “Look, alright, um um um you I/A you at the Sunoco look when
you come out I/A go to your, go to your left I/A don’t go to the 7-11
don’t go to 7-11, go the opposite way.”
U/M: “Alright, hold on.”
Baker: “I/A you passed the Sunoco, you passed the Sunoco and the
Giant.”
U/M: “Um, no this is, this is where my GPS took me. Oh no, this is not,
this yeah this is the jawn across the street say five forty six.”
Baker: “Yeah, you gotta come down the street there’s another Sunoco
down the street here. Yeah don’t go towards the 7-11, go the
opposite way when you come straight down, you gonna come
straight, you gonna.”
U/M: “Pass I/A Collision?”
Baker: “Yeah, pass all that. You gonna pass all that, you gonna hit a um,
you gonna end up getting to a McDonalds, you gonna see a Giant,
and across the street from a Giant is a Sunoco.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “I don’t know why that shit be doing that sending motherfuckers
up there and shit.”
U/M: “Yo, this is where it’s at, up here?”
Baker: “I/A huh?”
U/M: “I said, this is where it’s at up here?”
Baker: “Oh you talking with the ice cream shit?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I’m like yeah it be really everywhere for real for real but this is one
of the spots too that like popping with that that shit bro.”
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U/M: “My little brother live up there in in Clifton Heights.”
Baker: “Yeah, brother like my man, my man Poch, he gotta, he had a
phone, he had a phone I/A like you know what I mean I gotta, I
gotta a couple people I fuck with too, but it definitely I/A price and
shit.”
U/M: “I’m like, I’m like, I’m gonna start getting back on my I/A that shit,
I’m just like going places.”
Baker: “I/A.”
U/M: “Talking about I/A gas stations and shit.”
Baker: “Real shit. I be on all that shit bro, especially I/A getting played,
having them come down, I’m waiting for the shit to come through
I/A I’m right back on my shit.”
U/M: “Yeah, I just, I just.”
Baker: “I/A”
U/M: “I just lost my job gains so I ain’t got no choice but to turn up.”
Baker: “Oh shit bro.”
U/M: “I/A this nut as car shit bro. I ain’t been arrested they took my will
bro, I call my I call folks and shit like that got my car back I’m
coming in tomorrow and we like you know we terminated that
contract I be dying I/A.”
Baker: “Damn bro, why they terminated?”
U/M: “Huh?”
Baker: “Why they terminated it?”
U/M: “I guess that I…”
Baker: “Is it?”
U/M: “I guess that I couldn’t I/A.”
MINIMIZED.
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Baker: “Past that, they ain’t gonna see, they ain’t gonna start seeing like a
little bit more in storage and shit. But you going the right way
though dealership with the Audis and shit, you right there I/A.”
U/M: “Alright, yeah, they said um I got, I got two situations, you know
what I’m saying. I got, I got indy, that shit dead as fuck though
and I got uh, and I got S/L F street, F street clicking, like that shit
jumping right now.”
Baker: “Hm.”
U/M: “So, that’s like that’s where that shit, like gone for real, for real.
Then I got my little player that be grab mad zips and two zips and
shit like that three zips, but I know I can turn this shit up more, I
just like, I ain’t gonna lie bro, I was bitching at first.”
Baker: “About what?”
U/M: “I wasn’t trying to catch another fucking case I/A.”
Baker: “Oh yeah, well shit, hell yeah. Where you at now? I/A.”
U/M: “Uh, passing Wyoming.”
Baker: “Passing what? Oh, Wycomb, you passing Wycomb that’s where
you passing and shit.”
U/M: “Ah, I see the Advance Auto Parts, McDonald’s. I/A for the gas
like.”
Baker: “You said for the gas?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I/A I’m actually moving up there bro, I/A people I/A.”
U/M: “I’m here.”
Baker: “Alright, I’m walking down the street and shit. When I first start
coming out here I had a crazy I/A like I’m thinking about I/A.”
U/M: “Damn the fucking law right here too.”
Baker: “Yeah, they is?”
U/M: “Yeah bro, what the fuck? The gas station be a the cop spot?”
Baker: “No, no, it’s like they just they be like sitting, they be always sitting
across the street. Look um, you, you pulled in already?”
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U/M: “Yeah. I do, I do got get gas. I/A I’m parked, I’m parked at pump
four, running in and grab some gas I/A. “
Baker: “Alright, let me see.”
U/M: “That’s if, that’s if you want to do that.”
Baker: “I/A downtown they already know my face and shit but I’m only on
the next block over at the corner store. There’s a corner store on
the next block. Next block called Melrose.”
U/M: “Alright.”
It should be noted that during the above voice call, Parrish-Starr told
Baker that he lost his job so needed to “turn up.” It is your affiants’ opinion that
this comment was regarding Parrish-Starr’s loss of his employment, so he needs
to “turn up” or increase his illegitimate activities.
On March 2, 2022, at approximately 12:58PM, fixed surveillance observed
Baker, wearing a black jacket and light pants, exited 57 Melrose Avenue, East
Lansdowne and walked towards Baltimore Avenue. At approximately 1:10PM,
fixed surveillance observed Baker return to 57 Melrose Avenue walking from
Pembroke Avenue.
Based on the above voice calls and the surveillance of Baker walking
towards Baltimore Avenue at the time when he stated to Parrish-Starr that he
was walking to meet him, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker met with Parrish-
Starr to consummate the drug transaction.
On March 3, 2022, Samir Parrish-Starr and Tyrone Baker again discussed
a drug transaction, believed to be related to marijuana, which was completed
later that day.
CALLS #6994, 6711, 6720, 6879, 6974, 6988, 6993, 7003, AND 7047 ON
DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN MARCH 3, 2022 AND MARCH 5, 2022,
A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-616-1253, A PHONE
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ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, AND 215-980-1764, A
PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #6694
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yo broski. Hello?”
Baker: “Yo I/A.”
U/M: “What’s up buddy you hear me?”
Baker: “Yeah I hear you.”
U/M: “Uh you, you ever get my te- you ever see my text message?”
Baker: “No uh uh.”
U/M: “You about to check it?”
Baker: “Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah alright. You talking about the gas
and shit. Yeah I got you.”
U/M: “Alright. Umm. Uh I should be done this- these two jawns
tomorrow.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool.”
U/M: “Alright just let me know what time to get with you for the gas.”
Baker: “What time good for you today?”
U/M: “It don’t matter I’m about to jump in the shower right now.”
Baker: “Yo just let me know when you co- when you popping out and shit
I’mma see what’s up.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6711
Baker: “Bro.”
U/M: “Yo broski.”
Baker: “Yeah my fault I/A I can’t, I can’t even leave down on to, to sleep
I/A.”
U/M: “I’m about to say it sound like you just woke up.”
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Baker: “Yeah bro. I’m feeling ti- yeah I’m tired as shit.”
U/M: “Oh so what you wan- what you want to do?”
Baker: “Alright you can pull up on me and shit bro. I’m over here doing
the same I/A last time.”
U/M: “Alright the 401 jawn?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright I’m about to be on my way. Probably gonna be like twenty-
five minutes.”
Baker: “Oh that’s cool lemme try and do I/A a real quick.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6720
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro, how you doing?”
U/M: “I got that Impala out there I’m, I’m about to cash my ticket in.”
Baker: “Oh alright and shit. Lemme see umm. Umm. Oh yeah when you
come out I’mma be to your right side, right-hand side.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on the above voice calls and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and
experience coupled with their prior meetings between Parrish-Starr and Baker,
it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker and Parrish-Starr met on March 3, 2022,
to consummate a drug transaction, believed to be related to marijuana. This
opinion is supported by the call the next day, on March 4, 2022, where Baker
and Parrish-Starr discussed the quality of the marijuana.
Call #6879
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yeah what you about to say?”
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Baker: “I was about to say, umm, uhh oh did you get- shit how you, how
you like how that smoke? Like, it’s, it’s like, it definitely not like
super I/A and that shit.”
U/M: “I, I, I feel like its light. I, I feel- its light. But it, it gets you, it gets
you a little high. It gets you a light high, like…”
Baker: “A light high and shit.”
U/M: “Yeah I don’t like, I don’t like the taste though. I don’t like the
taste. It got…”
Baker: “The taste of it?”
U/M: “Yeah it got a lot of sticks in it and they don’t really like… it got like
a, a I/A smell.”
Baker: “Alright and shit.”
U/M: “Yeah I was about to say if you have some plats I’ll take the plats.”
Baker: “The platinum? ‘Cause I/A platinum… like what the difference
between that and that platinum like like I/A right there?”
U/M: “Uh the plat, see, see alright with the plat, the plat be like bet- uh
better buds, be like more buddy, it’s like softer, fluffier, and like
that shi- it gets you fried.”
Baker: “It gets you fried and shit.”
U/M: “Yeah. Like the plat that I, like that plat that I was getting before,
before I just took this dumb ass loss, that shit was some great
plat.”
Baker: “Mmm. Alright and shit. I’mma try to see if I can get some
platinum. Because I got, ‘cause I got like two other flavors but that
shit… they like all like close to the same. Like one of them got like
purple hairs and shit in it but it still like smoke just like the other
ones a little bit. I was trying to keep them jawns off of that I/A get
‘em off for good numbers.”
U/M: “Yeah just for the I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah. Shit man.”
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U/M: “Yeah I’mma try to do what it do but I’m just, I’m just going off a C
pack you feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah I know, alright. Alright and shit. I’m probably gonna get
some more, uh umm, a little bit more ice cream today and shit.
I’mma just try and sell it- I gotta call my folks I/A”
U/M: “Alright I’m half way there.”
Baker: “Alright and shit. S/L You need anything you let me know bro.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience your affiants know
that “platinum” is a popular strain of marijuana. Additionally, talk of “sticks”
and “bud” further supports your affiants’ opinion that the above conversation is
related to marijuana. The conversation continued with another drug transaction
believed to have been completed on March 5, 2022.
Call #6974
Baker: “Yea, that shit’s some…I’m about to call my man to see if some
around cause I/A right now.”
U/M: (Talking over each other)
Baker: “I just gave my last little bit of that shit.”
U/M: “Yea, that’s why I aint…I was trying to get you yesterday but you
wasn’t around.”
Baker: “Yea naw… even yesterday it was like that. It was like the same way
and shit.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright but, soon…I’m about…I mean I’m about to be back in the
city in like about twenty..twent..half hour. I’m gonna call my man
and shit see what’s up I can grab something real quick.”
U/M: “Alright, uhh try to let me know cause this nigga already started
driving down here.”
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Baker: “Awe shit, alright so I got you.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6988
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Talk to me nice.”
Baker: *Laughter* “You funny as shit.”
U/M: *Laughter*
Baker: “What…uhh…these fucking cars. Hold up. What I was about to
say? Uhm I found somebody I/A cause I don’t got nothing bro and
I’m trying to get some for my my folks I just know he’s going to
charge me a little higher and shit. Cause what I was charging you
for the I/A that shit was like.”
U/M: “One sixty-two.”
Baker: “Yeah like one sixty-two or some shit like that that’s the only thing
he be charging like two fifty-two seventy five.”
U/M: “Damn!”
Baker: “Yeah. But I don’t know what he charge for weed. I/A bro what’s
the I/A or some shit and he was like the lowest I can do is like two
fifty. I’m like I/A. I’m I’m trying to call my other man but I/A some
greedy shit I don’t know he say the same number I/A so I’ll call
this nigga.”
U/M: “Damn bro. I ain’t gonna lie I ain’t even trying to miss this trap I’m
only charging I’m only charging like three twenty-five a zip I be
charging everybody else four hundred but not him. It don’t matter.
I/A.”
Baker: “Alright that nigga just called him I’mma call him back.”
U/M: “Alright. Uh, if if uh you get the shit if you get the shit for two fifty
what you want me to give you?”
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Baker: “Give me two fifty bro. I ain’t even trying to make nothing off it. I’m
just I/A.”
U/M: “Alright.” “If that’s how we can do this fuck it. Nigga already
started driving down here I ain’t want him driving two hours for
nothing.”
Baker: “Damn!”
U/M: “Yeah. He coming from Lebanon.”
Baker: “Oh oh he from Lebanon? He from Lebanon? What the fuck he be
like seven hundred, six hundred.”
U/M: “Yeah but look I/A asked…see at first I was I was taxing him up.
But then he started grabbing six and half joints at a time so I’m
like I’mma swing you some love. But I mean when he hit me like
bro if I do two can you do the same number me I just took a loss
I’m like alright, you feel me?”
Baker: “Uh.”
U/M: “Right here. Twenty Seventh Street.”
Baker: “Man I’m trying to find my mans I know he be I/A and shit he
trying to have an alright number. Let me call him let me call this
nigga and see what’s up. But my other man for the two fifty he for
sure he just say he got to go to the I/A shit and then, after that, he
gonna hook up with me. I was like alright and shit.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright I’mma still make some other calls see if I can get it cheaper
I/A.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6993
U/M: “Hello?”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yea.”
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Baker: “Where you at? ‘Cause my man just called me and he said that he
is not far from S/L him.”
U/M: “I’m on…I’m on uh twenty-seventh and Ridge, where do you want
me to meet you at?”
Baker: “Uh..twenty-seven and Ridge. You want to wait for the buhl get..like
you about to..you got the bread, the cash..cashing out, cashing out
or you want uh wait til he get done?”
U/M: “Naw, he said he like thirty minutes away tho. I told him I was going
to be like an extra thirty minutes longer, he said he was going to
wait for me tho.”
Baker: “Alright…”
U/M: “I’m a..as soon as I bust him I’m coming right exactly back to you so
you aint have to wait or nothing.”
Baker: “Alright and shit, uh alright. Alright well let me see…make your way
to bla..bla..make your way to U/I bro.”
U/M: “West?”
Baker: “Yea.”
U/M: “Uh Sixth, uh Edgewood?”
Baker: “Uh..yea you can, that’s cool yea.”
U/M: “Alright um, I’m on my way there I’ll be there in like fifteen minutes.”
Baker: “Alright, that’s cool.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #7003
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yea, I’m about to pull up in like two minutes.”
Baker: “Alright damn, alright and shit.”
U/M: “Well…”
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Baker: “I’m over here, I’m over here I just had to meet, i just meet my man
in county to pick the jawns up and shit I/A you know what do this
for me, do this for me. You know how to come on 63rd right?”
U/M: “To the..63rd and what?”
Baker: “I’m only, I’m only um like 63rd and Baltimore...it’s really once you
come on 63rd just take it straight.... like cause that that’s really
I’m right near that like 63rd and Baltimore I’m like five minutes
from there but I’m only like another five minutes from where you at
over there and shit.”
U/M: “Alright so, so like, like that gas station where we met at last time
on 63rd or it’s farther than that?”
Baker: “No it’s further, the gas station where, I mean hold oh yea that gas
station where you was at where’s you were um where yous was um
sitting at?”
U/M: “Umhum.”
Baker: “Nah that’s on 63rd and Chestnut, not that gas station. If you keep
going straight like past that you gonna go all the way to that you
gonna all to that end you gonna get to Baltimore that’s where I
meet, I meet you at cause that’s like I’m I’m not that far from there
and shit.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “See, I don’t know cause you probably don’t know west Philly
where there’s a street with a basketball court right there they got a
Jamaican spot across the street and shit it’s where the trolly run
at.”
U/M: “Alright, Imma, Imma figure that shit out, Imma find it.”
Baker: “yea basically, literally.”
U/M: “It’s It’s a gas station right there though.”
Baker: “No, it’s actually.”
U/M: “I/A”
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Baker: “You going past the gas station you goin past the gas station and
stay on 63rd but when you get there its a playground and you can
park in the playground park at that Jamaican spot like they be...
you can park up anywhere.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “I’m gonna be there before you and shit because I ain’t that far.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #7047
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “What’s up bro I’m here.”
Baker: “Are you there, I’m like, I’m like three blocks down the street.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, and the fact that there
was no further communications between the two parties, your affiants opine that
above-described incident on March 5, 2022 was a consummated drug
transaction between Tyrone Baker and a male, believed to be Samir Parrish-
Starr, using phone number 267-616-1253.
DARRELL CARTER DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY 9,
2022
CALL #2783 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT
9:42PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-424-2942 FROM 215-980-
1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
U/M: “Hello?”
Baker: “Yo I/A.”
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U/M: “What’s going on?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much bro. Uhh but umm, you can, I can meet up with you
tonight. I gotta part with it. I’m, I’m at- I’m down towards the county,
like you know the area, umm like over there and shit near like
Delaware County and shit. Or I can meet you in West or it don’t
matter and shit. Like wherever you try and link up at.”
U/M: “Alright. I can meet you on like uh, the best spot would be uh, 63rd
Street gas station right there?”
Baker: “You said, say it again?”
U/M: “63rd at the gas station?”
Baker: “Oh, like 63rd and Chestnut?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Yeah I know what you talking about I/A I just drove, I just had to
meet somebody over there earlier today. Alright and shit, I’m- I can
meet over there just let me know when you’re ready.”
U/M: “I’m ready now. I can be there in like in thirty minutes.”
Baker: “I/A alright you call me, you call me when you get close ‘cause you
know I’m only like five minutes from that jawn.”
U/M: “Alright bet.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #2789 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2022, AT 10:16
PM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 484-424-2942, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yeah I’m five minutes away.”
Baker: “Alright that’s I/A I’m about to pull off.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
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On February 9, 2022, at approximately 9:44PM (Call #2783), Baker (215-
980-1764) placed an outgoing phone call to an unknown male (484-424-2942).
During the call, they agreed to meet at the Gas n Go located at 6243 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia. At approximately 9:59PM, through the use of electronic
surveillance, reported Baker arrived home at 57 Melrose Avenue, Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania in his white Dodge Charger.
Around the time Baker arrived home, Detectives Lavin, Fuentes, Daywalt,
and Stanley set up surveillance at the Gas n Go. Gas n Go video surveillance
was later obtained by Detective Fuentes. At approximately 10:09PM electronic
surveillance observed Baker leave 57 Melrose Avenue in his white Dodge
Charger. At 10:16PM (Call #2789), the male called Baker and stated that he was
approximately five (5) minutes away. Baker replied that he was pulling up to the
location.
At approximately 10:24PM, Detectives Lavin, Fuentes, and Stanley
observed Baker arrive at the Gas n Go in his white Dodge Charger, Pennsylvania
Registration LMS-5730. Baker parked at the gas pump closest the Chestnut
Street. Around this same time, a silver Toyota Prius, later identified by Detective
Fuentes as bearing Pennsylvania Registration LMJ-6886, arrived and parked
next to Baker. A record check through the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation revealed the Toyota Prius is registered to Darrell Lameer Carter
at 153 N. Dearborn Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Detectives Fuentes and
Stanley observed the black male driver, later identified by Detective Rook via Gas
N Go surveillance video as Darrell Lameer Carter of the Toyota Prius exit his
vehicle and get into the passenger seat of Baker’s Dodge Charger. The Gas n Go
video surveillance captured video of the inside of Baker’s Charger. The video
appeared to show Carter hand Baker US Currency and Baker hand Carter a
plastic bag containing what looked like a crystal substance. At approximately
10:28PM, Carter exited the passenger seat of Baker’s vehicle and got back into
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the driver’s seat of the Toyota Prius. Baker immediately left the scene, eastbound
on Chestnut Street. Carter returned to his vehicle and could be seen on video
surveillance placing the bag of crystal substance into another bag inside his
vehicle. At approximately 10:28PM, Carter left the Gas n Go in the Toyota Prius,
eastbound on Chestnut Street.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, your affiants opine that above-described incident was a drug
transaction between Tyrone Baker and a male believed to be Darrell Carter.
Further, it is believed that the drug transaction observed involved the suspected
drugs shipped to Tyrone Baker by Ricky Evans.
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UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE VALERIE
DICICCO, DRUG DEAL ONE (HIRST AVENUE):
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
CALLS #7, 21, 24, 27, 28, 35-37, 40-41, 47-55, 58-60, AND 68 ON DOCKET
38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, BETWEEN 6:04PM THROUGH
8:49PM, TEXT MESSAGES AND VOICE CALLS BETWEEN 609-431-1742 AND
267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (Call #7): “You close”
Call #21
Baker: “Hello, hold on Tay, hello.”
U/F: “Yo.”
Baker: “What’s up, where the fuck you at bro?”
U/F: “Yo, my ride gets here in like five minutes.”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/F: “My rides coming in like five minutes.”
Baker: “Your rider, your ride is coming in five minutes?”
U/F: “Yea.”
Baker: “Bitch I’m gonna knock your dumbass out.”
U/F: “I/A”
Baker: “You taking forever and shit I/A.”
U/F: “They had work, they had work, I mean I called you for like three
hours.”
Baker: “You needed, you needed, nah no shut up shut the fuck up
black...yo shut up.”
U/F: “You should be S/L dialed me.”
Baker: “You need a jawn, right?”
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U/F: “Huh?”
Baker: “You need a zone?”
U/F: “Meet you?”
Baker: “No you just need an ounce right?”
U/F: “Yea what you say the first time?”
Baker: “Alright, that’s cool then alright well just call me yo.”
U/F: “Just me and you meeting?”
Baker: “I’m not even I’m not asking you that shit, I’m trying see what you
needed, Alright, alright just call me.”
U/F: “Alright.”
U/F (Call #24): “On road.”
U/F (Call #27): “30.”
Call #28
Baker: “Yo.”
U/F: “Yo, yo I’m like twenty alright?”
Baker: “What?”
U/F: “See like twenty.”
Baker: “Like twenty minutes.”
U/F: “Yep.”
Baker: “Alright, hurry up.”
U/F (Call #35): “From gas station walk off right or left.”
Baker (Call #36): “You there?”
U/F (Call #37): “Nah.”
U/F (Call #40): “See my trip progress and arrival time on Maps:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LTPAKg65sAEtMQGD8”
U/F (Call #41): “Aight?”
Baker (Call #47): “Eta?”
Baker (Call #48): “I can’t see it you sent it a sum ass way.”
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U/F (Call #49): “4.4miles from gas station 823.”
U/F (Call #50): “Im androi.d”
U/F (Call #51): “I get done weird message back from Apple.”
U/F (Call #52): “I got back.”
U/F (Call #53): “On pike now.”
U/F (Call #54): “2Miles from there.”
U/F (Call #55): “This road slow as fuck.”
U/F (Call #58): “Yo man.”
Call #59
Baker: “Yo.”
U/F: “Yo, yo, I’m at the McDonalds.”
Baker: “Yo.”
U/F: “Yo, I’m at the McDonalds cause I, I can see the Sunoco.”
Baker: “Said what shirt I had.”
U/F: “Huh.”
Baker: “No not you.. oh shoot trip you down McDonalds somewhere.”
U/F: “Which way, yea which way, which way do you want me walk off
when I get there.”
Baker: “Um, go to Sunoco and walk up Melrose.”
U/F: “And then to the right or left of it.”
Baker: “Actually you know what next to the Sunoco there’s a street called
Hirst…just walk up Hirst.”
U/F: “The same side, on same side.”
Baker: “It don’t matter just walk up Hirst.”
U/F: “Oh, OK I think, I think it is where I seen you before right, the
same one.”
Baker: “Yea, yea something like that. Alright.”
U/F: “I/A alright, bye.”
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Call #60
Baker: “I/A”
U/F: “Yo, like halfway down the block.”
Baker: “Alright, I’m five minutes away.”
U/F: “Oh ok, I/A.”
Baker: “Just walk all the way down Hirst and then when you get to the
end just turn around and walk back up. I’m be meeting you.”
U/F: “Yea, yea. It’s a little shifty.”
Baker: “Huh.”
U/F: “Said it’s a little shifty down here though.”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/F: “Little shifty down here ain’t it?”
Baker: “You, you in Delaware County ain’t nothin shifty about that
fucking area, yo you in the most safest area in the fucking city.”
U/F: “Yea, Yea until you get stuck in the damn. Is this the one with the
um, with the ah slot machines in it.”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/F: “Sunoco with the slot machines.”
Baker: “What about them, they working?”
U/F: “That’s where I got, I got stuck there. The uber wouldn’t even let
you put in an address thank God Meek came got me that time
I/A.”
Baker: “Alright, I’ll be right there yo.”
U/F: “Alright.”
Call #68
U/F: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo, what’s up bro where you at?”
U/F: “Um, I just took a second left down to the like I’m at the Sunoco.”
Baker: “S/L you said what?”
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U/F: “I’m like two houses from going hitting the Sunoco again I’m about
to turn around.”
Baker: “Alright, alright don’t go to the Sunoco.”
U/F: “Huh?”
Baker: “Don’t go to, don’t go to the Sunoco.”
U/F: “No, I’m turning back around.”
Baker: “Yea, turn around. Walk back up, I’m about to walk down and
meet you.”
U/F: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright, know Imma gonna, yea I’m gonna walk I’m not even
gonna drive.”
U/F: “Yea walk, walk. Cause there’s already been two of them...ugh.”
Baker: “You, you turned around you walking back up.”
U/F: “Yea, I’m on same same side Sunoco you are.”
Baker: “You said you on the same side of Sunoco but you, you not going
to Sunoco you walking up right.”
U/F: “Yea, but I’m I’m saying same side of the street.”
Baker: “Alright, I don’t, I don’t care what side of street you on.”
U/F: “No, Iahh I, I, I’m on it I’m coming back up it I’m gonna cross back
over where’s there’s more light done scratching these off.”
Baker: “Yea, just walk up don’t go to the Sunoco, just walk.”
U/F: “No, I, I, I, I walk up I walk up and back down and now I’m walking
back up.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Nonchalantly.”
On Friday, February 11, 2022, at approximately 6:04PM, surveillance
officers were dispatched to 157 N. Edgewood Street, Philadelphia. Detective
Stanley and Sergeant Faherty arrived at 157 N. Edgewood Street and observed
Baker’s white Dodge Charger, Pennsylvania Registration LMS-5730, parked in
front of the residence.
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At approximately 8:10PM, in reference to Call #48, the unknown female,
using phone number 609-431-1742, estimated her time of arrival to be 8:23PM.
At approximately 8:19PM, fixed surveillance observed Baker’s girlfriend, Trivinia
Quintana, arrive home at 157 N. Edgewood Street in her silver Hyundai Sonata,
Pennsylvania Registration LTN-8537. A short time later, Quintana went inside
157 N. Edgewood Street.
At approximately 8:33PM, in reference to Call #59, the unknown female
was near a McDonald’s Restaurant and Sunoco Gas Station. Baker instructed
the female to walk on Hirst Avenue. Based on the above conversation, Detectives
Lavin and Fuentes responded to the area of Hirst Avenue and Baltimore Avenue
in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. This location is one block south of Baker’s
residence located at 57 Melrose Avenue.
At approximately 8:35PM, fixed surveillance observed Baker exit 157 N.
Edgewood Street, get into his white Dodge Charger, and travel towards Race
Street. Detective Stanley and Sergeant Faherty followed Baker from 157
Edgewood Street directly to 57 Melrose Avenue. At approximately 8:43PM,
Detective Lavin arrived in the area of Hirst Avenue and Baltimore Avenue and
observed a light-skinned female with blonde hair, wearing a red sweatshirt and
dark colored pants walking up and down Hirst Avenue. At approximately
8:46PM, fixed surveillance observed Baker arrive at 57 Melrose Avenue. A short
time later, fixed surveillance observed Baker go inside 57 Melrose Avenue.
At approximately 8:50PM, in reference to Call #68, Baker was speaking
with the female drug customer and told her that he would walk to meet her.
During the voice call, the unknown female told Baker that she already saw “2 of
them,” a possible reference to police patrols in the area. Fixed surveillance
observed Baker exit 57 Melrose Avenue and walk towards Pembroke Avenue. A
short time later, Detective Lavin observed Baker round the corner from Pembroke
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Avenue onto Hirst Avenue, walking eastbound. At the time, Detective Lavin
noticed Baker’s phone was illuminated, and he appeared to be talking on speaker
phone. At the same time, Detective Lavin observed the female in the red
sweatshirt, described above, walking westbound on Hirst Avenue, on the south
side of the roadway, towards Pembroke Avenue.
When Detective Lavin passed the female in the red sweatshirt, she too
appeared to be talking on speaker phone. At approximately 8:53PM, Sergeant
Faherty went down Hirst Avenue and observed Baker and the female in the red
sweatshirt walking together on the south side of Hirst Avenue, westbound
towards Pembroke Avenue.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that above-described incident was a drug transaction between Tyrone Baker and
a female using phone number 609-431-1742.
UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE VALERIE
DICICCO, DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY 26, 2022
CALLS #1292, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1337, 1338, 1369, 1370, 1379, 1393,
1408, 1429, 1436, 1437, 1438, 1439, 1440, 1447, 1455, AND 1462 ON
DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022 BETWEEN 1:10PM AND
9:24PM, A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 609-431-1742, A
PHONE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY VALERIE DICICCO, AND 267-670-4429,
A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
609-431-1742 (Call #1292): “Yo”
Baker (Call #1302): “Yo bro”
609-431-1742 (Call #1303): “You around “
Baker (Call #1304): “Yea”
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609-431-1742 (Call #1337): “Yo call me when u get this”
CALL #1338
U/F: “Yo what’s up friend?”
Baker: “Yo what’s up, Val?”
U/F: “What’s up, I gotta ride out there um…”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Um is it 4 or 5?”
Baker: “Uh 5.”
U/F: “Five alright, um, real shit, uh, duh duh duh, yeah so um I just
walked in the door from uh wherever I said I was coming from, so
uh, I can be on the road probably like 5, is that cool?”
Baker: “Yeah, you can leave around 5 -5:30 that would be cool, cause I gotta
come out there, but I gotta come back out here so I can meet you
and shit so I gotta meet a couple I/A if you leave at like 5 -5:30 that
be, that be cool.”
U/F: “Ok, if it changes till later will you let me know.”
Baker: “Yeah it aint gonna change till later, it probably, it probably might
change like a half an hour later but it aint gonna be like super later.”
U/F: “Ok that’s not a problem, that’s not a problem. Um, but uh same
shady area.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/F: “Alright be careful wear your seatbelt.”
Baker: “Alright I got you.”
U/F: “Alright babe.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Baker (Call #1369): “I’m ready for u”
609-431-1742 (Call #1370): “Ok I’m getting put shower”
609-431-1742 (Call #1379): “Gotta poop I be on road soon🤦”
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CALL #1393: 1:25 – 1:41
Baker: “Yeah, let me know when you get close, you said you want like an
ounce, right?”
U/F: “Yeah, yeah if you can make it chunks, please, motherfuckers be
bitching like it’s crack.”
Baker: “Alright I got you…Alright I got you and shit.”
U/F: “Alright…alright bye.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Baker (Call #1408): “13 Melrose Ave landsdowne pa 19050”
609-431-1742 (Call #1429): “Eta 9pm”
609-431-1742 (Call #1436): “Yo”
609-431-1742 (Call #1437): “15min”
Baker (Call #1438): “Wya”
Baker (Call #1439): “I’m here”
609-431-1742 (Call #1440): “12 min”
609-431-1742 (Call #1447): “5min”
609-431-1742 (Call #1455): “Passing 1st stop”
609-431-1742 (Call #1462): “In gas station”
Surveillance of Baker and the unknown female – February 26, 2022
At approximately 8:52PM, Detective Stanley observed Baker’s white Dodge
Charger traveling eastbound on Baltimore Avenue and making a left turn onto
Melrose Avenue. Detective Stanley observed the Dodge Charger park in the area
of 13 Melrose Avenue.
At approximately 9:09PM, Detectives Lavin and Stanley observed Baker
and a female who was dressed in all black clothing, meeting on foot on Melrose
Avenue, between Pembroke Avenue and Emerson Avenue. Detective Stanley also
observed a dark colored Nissan Pathfinder, New Jersey Registration N95NWN,
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parked on the same block, occupied at the time by a white male. The white male
driver of the vehicle turned the exterior lights off on the car and appeared to be
crouched down in his seat. A record check through the New Jersey Department
of Transportation revealed the Nissan Pathfinder is registered to Kathleen L.
Andress at 21 N. Browning Avenue, Somerdale, New Jersey.
At first, Detective Lavin observed Baker and the female walking
northbound on Melrose Avenue, but on a second pass through the area noticed
they were walking southbound, in the direction of Baltimore Avenue. After
Detectives Lavin and Stanley observed Baker and the female walking together on
several different occasions, they remained out of sight due to the lack of other
vehicular traffic in the area.
At approximately 9:21PM, fixed surveillance showed that Baker had just
arrived at 57 Melrose Avenue in his white Dodge Charger. At this time, the Nissan
Pathfinder, New Jersey Registration N95NWN, was still parked on Melrose
Avenue between Pembroke Avenue and Emerson Avenue.
At approximately 9:24PM, Baker left 57 Melrose Avenue in his white Dodge
Charger. Detective Lavin responded to the Sunoco gas station, 401 E. Baltimore
Avenue, and observed Baker’s white Dodge Charger parked in the parking lot. A
short time later, Detective Lavin observed Baker and a female, who appeared to
be the same woman he met on Melrose Avenue, exit the Sunoco gas station.
Baker and the female (passenger) got into Baker’s white Dodge Charger and
traveled eastbound on Baltimore Avenue, then northbound on Melrose Avenue
in the direction of the Nissan Pathfinder, which at the time was still parked at
the same location, between Pembroke Avenue and Emerson Avenue, and being
monitored by Detective Stanley.
Approximately five (5) minutes later, Detective Stanley observed the Nissan
Pathfinder, New Jersey Registration N95NWN, turn left onto Emerson Avenue,
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and then another left, southbound on Hirst Street. Detectives Lavin and Stanley
followed the vehicle and were able to see inside the car at the intersection of Hirst
Street and Baltimore Avenue. Once at this intersection, Detectives Lavin and
Stanley noted the vehicle was now occupied by the male driver from earlier, as
well as a female passenger. The female passenger matched the description of
Baker’s drug customer, who was observed meeting with Baker on Melrose
Avenue, and then a second time at the Sunoco gas station.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that this meeting between Baker and the unknown female, believed to
be Valerie DiCicco, was consistent with a drug transaction.
UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE VALERIE
DICICCO, DRUG DEAL THREE: MARCH 5, 2022
CALLS #1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1933, 1934,
1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980,
AND 1981 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 5, 2022, BETWEEN
11:39AM AND 2:49PM, A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 609-
431-1742, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY VALERIE DICICCO, AND
267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #1907
Baker: “Hello.”
U/F: “Yo.”
Baker: “What’s up?”
U/F: “What’s up man? Yo that, that same um, cheeseburger. Do you
have a different cheeseburger cause um, that one tastes weird.”
Baker: “Um, I got some new I/A that just came in.”
U/F: “Huh?”
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Baker: “I got some new stuff that came in.”
U/F: “What? Since you seen me? When I got the E pills and all that.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/F: “It’s only a few days ago you know.”
Baker: “That shit, yo.”
U/F: “Yeah like a week ago.”
Baker: “You said the E pill, what you talking about, E pill?”
U/F: “You don’t remember. You fucking brought, I bought E pills off
you.”
Baker: “Oh you did buy. I forgot you bought like three.”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Baker: “E pills or some shit like that.”
U/F: “Yeah so you got new stuff since then?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/F: “Alright cause I I/A flavor bro. It’s like um, you know. And I’m
dealing with like the one person and he’s like, you know, dealing
with like a lot of, of people. He’s respected, put it that way so I
wanna make sure this tastes right. And, the sniffers got no
problem. Oh it went straight to my dick ok so I/A. The other people
went straight to the toilet cause it tastes funny. But um, you
around today?”
Baker: “Yeah. So what you want me to do, you just want me to swap it?”
U/F: “Um, I only got, I got. Called you man I coulda swapped it? Fuck.
Damn I got six grams left of it.”
Baker: “Well you can’t swap that.”
U/F: “And it’s disgusting. I’ll give you that shit back and uh, so I can,
you can give me less than that. I don’t give a fuck. It’s just a
nasty.”
Baker: “Well I/A.”
U/F: “Why don’t you just give me, give me, give me a little discount off,
off of the new, the new jawn. Cause it’s just me, I’m not dealing
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with the dude. I’m not going half with nobody since I’m just gonna
be me like I/A. Why don’t you give me for four?”
Baker: “I/A four fifty.”
Based on the above voice call, it is your affiants’ opinion that the female
was complaining about the quality of the drugs she purchased last time. Your
affiants know from their training, knowledge, and experience that when the
female is complaining about the “cheeseburger”, she is using coding language to
reference methamphetamine. The female then discusses “E Pills”, which your
affiants know is a reference to “ecstasy”. As the conversation continued, the
female asked for a discount off her next purchase.
U/F (Call #1911): “GOT YOUR 5 AT LEAST”
U/F (Call #1912): “I NEED IT FOR ME TOO BABY BOY THIS HERE YUCK.
LOL”
Baker (Call #1919): “I’m a ring what I got”
Baker (Call #1920): “Send me ya addy again”
U/F (Call #1923): “302 Evesham Rd, Magnolia, NJ 08049”
U/F (Call #1925): “Tell me what you got”
Baker (Call #1930): “1”
Baker (Call #1933): “Omw”
Baker (Call #1934): “That’s cool”
U/F (Call #1935): “Eta ? I’m at auto zone helping old man”
Baker (Call #1936): “40 min”
U/F (Call #1937): “If it not the same load . Yesssss please.”
U/F (Call #1938): “U in and out or,,”
Baker (Call #1945): “I’m a chill for a sec”
U/F (Call #1948): “Eta 15?”
Call #1949
Baker: “Hello?”
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U/F: “Yeah, you on your way?”
Baker: “Uh, yeah.”
U/F: “Like how long?”
Baker: “Uh, same time. I had to stop for a little something real quick.”
U/F: “Wait, so that that start the forty all over again?”
Baker: “I guess, yeah. Yeah.”
U/F: “I mean, let me know cause there’s a lot of things I gotta like, I
could do, like a couple little things. So, at the earliest, a half
hour?”
Baker: “Yeah, the earliest a half an hour. But nah I wouldn’t even say that
I would just say a half an hour a half an hour. I’m a half an hour
away.”
U/F: “Alright. Alright. I’m here.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F (Call #1976): “204 NW Atlantic Ave”
Baker (Call #1977): “Yo that’s where you at”
Baker (Call #1978): “Why you not home”
U/F (Call #1979): “The other address is water ice factory at corner.. WYA”
Baker (Call #1980): “4 min”
Call #1981
U/F: “Yeah.”
Baker: “What's up mom?”
U/F: “Yeah”
Baker: “Yeah what's up?”
U/F: “You here?”
Baker: “Um... I'm not that far. Where you, where you live? Which area is
yours?”
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U/F: “Remember (stuttering) da, da, da, where exactly do you see from
my house, I'm in the blue house with the driveway in the back
remember my apartments in the back of the house.”
Baker: “Yeah, I know where you live at that's which address.”
U/F: (Speaking over Baker) “That's where I'm at.”
Baker: “Which address is that?”
U/F: “That's the one I just gave you the other one is the water ice factory
were you turn at. I wasn't sure who’s coming so I just gave you,
you know what I mean? Round about like cause you know the less
you text addresses the less the better you mean.”
Baker: “Oh-kay. Alright, so you...”
U/F: (Speaking over Baker) “I'm sure you're good.”
Baker: “But hey your address to your house is Atlantic Ave?”
U/F: (Stuttering) “It, it, my, the house facing Atlantic but you gotta you
make that left on Madison to, to turn to get to the driveway. It's a
big blue house, it's a block away from water ice factory.”
Baker: “Okay, I see what your saying. Alright.”
U/F: “Yeah, yeah. It's been awhile.”
Baker: “Yeah, but I remember once I get to your area I remember where
your house is at.”
U/F: “Alright, what you like um... 5 minutes away something like that.”
Baker: “Not even that, like, like it's say like three minutes.”
U/F: “Alright lemme make this call before you get here so I can cause
my friend helping that uh... old guy with his uh... with his lug nuts
that came missing. I also wanna, I will let him up to him.”
GPS coordinates from Baker’s “Money Maker” cellphone on March 5, 2022
A review of GPS locations associated with Baker’s cellphone (267-670-
4429) on March 5, 2022, showed that the GPS location at 3:39PM was within 3
meters of GPS coordinates (39.854965,-75.037286) which is approximately
located at 204 NW Atlantic Avenue, Magnolia, NJ.
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Summary of the drug transaction – March 5, 2022
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Baker and the female, believed to be Valerie DiCicco, conducted a
drug transaction on March 5, 2022 in New Jersey.
MAURICE JIGGETTS DRUG DEAL ONE - FEBRUARY 16,
2022
On February 14, 2022, Baker started a phone/text conversation with an
unknown male, believed to be Maurice Jiggetts, about mailing, what your
affiants believe to be a controlled substance, from Pennsylvania to Jiggetts in
Baltimore, Maryland. The package was delivered to Jiggetts on Wednesday,
February 16, 2022. The intercepted phone calls and surveillance of the package
delivery are as follows:
CALLS #3419 AND 3420 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13,
2022, BETWEEN 7:54PM AND 8:00PM, INCOMING PHONE CALL AND
OUTGOING TEXT FROM/TO 410-493-9946, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH
MAURICE JIGGETTS, TO/FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo I/A.”
Jiggetts: “What’s up with you?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much and shit man I’m chilling.”
Jiggetts: “How you be?”
Baker: “I’m I/A my daughter with right now. Come here, JuJu. Come
here.”
Jiggetts: “That’s what’s up. That’s what’s up.”
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Baker: “Yeah man. She been, been over here with me for the weekend.
Come here.”
Jiggetts: “Oh, ok.”
Baker: “Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle.”
Jiggetts: “Hey. Hey everything still everything?”
Baker: “Um yeah everything I/A.”
Jiggetts: “I’mma need, I’mma need you to do the uh, do the mail thing for
me.”
Baker: “Oh you want me to do the mail jawn for you?”
Jiggetts: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright ain’t shit. What you want me to do the, uh, the same
jawn?”
Jiggetts: “Yeah yeah yeah just the normal.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Jiggetts: “I, I, I had ran across somebody down here that that has
something that they ain’t know what to do with it so. By the time I
found out it was, it was something real real small. But.”
Baker: “Oh yeah?”
Jiggetts: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Did you um…”
Jiggetts: “I/A”
Baker: “When he, he was getting around they just ran across it and shit?”
Jiggetts: “I don’t know like my man had called me and told me somebody,
he needed it. That, that, that has something but by the time I, I got
back with him, motherfucker nigga had already sent everything
back but he had took something, took something. You know a little
piece out of it.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “But it wasn’t, it was, you know something small. Smaller than,
you know, what I grabbed already.”
Baker: “I/A”
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Jiggetss: “Yeah. Yeah. Yeah it was real small, real small.”
Baker: “Aw, nah, I’m about to, I was just saying be I/A. I was about to say
if you end up finding some motherfuckers that fuck with it, um,
you know...I be having, I be having the numbers for the wholesale
shit and get numbers shit from uh.”
Jiggetts: “Yeah I, I know. I know what it was but the, but my man when he,
when he, when he hit me, the nigga that he know should, shoulda
came through, I/A came through. Like some, like white girl had
came through and, and I/A came through.”
Baker: “Mmm.”
Jiggetts: “So. Couldn’t do nothing with the uh, with, with, with that, with
the, you know with the uh...I/A.”
Baker: “Come on JuJu.”
Jiggetts: “I/A couldn’t do nothing with it so he I/A hear back.”
Baker: “I/A”
Jiggetts: “But by the time I got, by the time I got to it, shit was already sent
back. But you know.”
Baker: “I know.”
Jiggetts: “You know how niggas be. But they are already going to take
something outta that and be like yo that’s how it was when I got it
so.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “Yeah. Couldn’t believe this nigga that I fuck with, like only got
that one mother fucker but. Actually what, what, really what
happened was he had had somebody come down from Syracuse.”
Baker: “I/A”
Jiggetts: “Right. And um, and he be like uh, some chick from Syracuse and,
and he was asking me do I wanna hook up with and I was like I
ain’t fuck I/A.”
Baker: “Mmm.”
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Jiggetts: “But she paid I/A. He was like the numbers look the same but he
was just gonna do like a extra G for the same thing that with you,
that what we doing.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “I/A I’m like well go ahead do what you gonna do then. You know
I’ll holler at you later.”
Baker: “I/A”
Jiggetts: “So I had nobody. I ain’t, you know I ain’t call you for a minute
cause he already had that, he had like I/A and shit. So I was like
oh you gonna smoke all that you gonna be good for a minute.”
Baker: (Laughs)
Jiggetts: “Yeah so. Alright I’m like fuck it I’ll wait, I’ll wait. He’ll, he’ll be
calling soon and he just started calling again like last week or
something.”
Baker: “Mm.”
Jiggetts: “So like, so I’m like well shit my man, he gets, I/A so I grabbed
that. It was like, it was like a free, it was like a free trial. He gave it
to me for like fifty bucks. That was cool. I made out I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “But. But yeah. But now now now he back on the wagon. Now now
he back calling me and shit. And he’s been calling me for like the
last few days and shit and I’m like nah I ain’t, I ain’t, I ain’t got
nothing. So…”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “I’m ah, I’m definitely gonna need you to do the, do, do, do the mail
thing like er, like early tomorrow if, if possible.”
Baker: “Yeah that’s cool. I’m I/A. I’m cool with that. I’m about to drop my
daughter off with her mom. I’ll be free and shit.”
Jiggetts: “Good.”
Baker: “I/A I, I can do, I can do that, do that for you and shit.”
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Jiggetts: “Alright I’ll and I’ll get, I’ll get uh, I/A to send that CashApp over to
you too.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool.”
Jiggetts: “Mat, matter of fact text, text, text me the cash app again.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Jiggetts: “Fact send it to me again so I, so I can have it then I can have him
send it. But definitely, definitely try to get that to me uh, first thing
in the, you know, try, try to send it out first thing tomorrow so I
can get it, least by Tuesday. But I’mma, I’mma hit him right
nowand be like look, I’ll be ready tomorrow.”
Baker: “I/A”
Jiggetts: “Hit me tomorrow.”
Baker: “So you trying to get it, you want me to next day it?”
Jiggetts: “Yeah yeah next day it would be fine. But, but don’t don’t don’t do
the next day if it’s going to be, if it’s going to be like forty, fifty
dollars and shit. Don’t, don’t do that.”
Baker: “Yeah I was about to say that’s the only thing about next day.
When you next day it and like you trying to next day it and it’ll
have next day on there. Next day end of day, twelve.”
Jiggetts: “Mm hmm.”
Baker: “I/A twelve o’clock end of day or early. So if I do next day at like
twelve o’clock it might be like sixty dollars just for the next day.”
Jiggetts: “Nah nah nah nah. Do. I mean.”
Baker: “That’s how that shit be.”
Jiggetts: “Do, do the, do the cheapest on next day. And and and if it’s, if it’s
still, if it’s still over like twenty dollars fuck that shit just let that
shit ride. I ain’t, nah, man we ain’t trying to. I mean…”
Baker: “Alright so look, this what I’mma do.”
Jiggetts: “Cause that’s, cause that’s not benefiting you or me.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Jiggetts: “You know.”
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Baker: “This, this what I’mma do. I’mma do, I’mma ask them what’s the
next day prices for end of day. If that shit.”
Jiggetts: “Mm hmm.”
Baker: “Be over twenty I’mma ask them what’s the two day price.”
Jiggetts: “Right right.”
Baker: “So. Then if that go, if that goes cool they might like twenty or
fifteen or something I’ll do that and shit. But you not, you not
trying to spend nothing over like twenty, twenty five for the mail?”
Jiggetts: “You know I’m already spending, you know, for, for that. I ain’t
trying to spend. You feel me? That’s digging I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Jiggetts: “You already know.”
Baker: “But I/A.”
Jiggetts: “But yeah so. As, as long, long as I get it at least, least by Tuesday,
Wednesday, ain’t no thing. I can push him off til like Tuesday,
Wednesday.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool. Just um, just send me a name and a address.
That’s all I need.”
Jiggetts: “Alright. I’ll I/A send me the cash app.”
Baker: “Alright I just, wait did I just I/A. I just sent you the cash app right
now.”
Jiggetts: “Right.”
Baker: “But just send me the name and the address and I’ll have that shit
out first thing in the morning.”
Jiggetts: “Bet. Copy.”
Baker: “Alright cousin.”
Jiggetts: “Alright.”
Baker: “Mhm. Mm.”
Baker (Call #3420): “$otmblack2155”
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During the above voice call and follow-up text message, Baker and an
unknown male, believed to be Maurice Jiggetts, discussed Baker mailing Jiggetts
an overnight package after Jiggetts sends Baker money via CashApp. Based on
their training, knowledge, and experience, including their knowledge that
members of this drug trafficking send and receive packages of controlled
substances to each other, it is your affiants’ opinion that the above
communications was Baker agreeing to send the unknown male a package
containing a controlled substance.
CALL #3531 ON DOCKET #38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, AT
11:49AM, AN INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE FROM CASHAPP, 833-417-2274,
TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
CashApp (Call #3531): “CashApp: Wanda Jiggetts sent you $200 for Reese.”
On February 14, 2022, Baker received a CashApp payment of $200 from
“Wanda Jiggetts.” It is your affiants’ opinion that this was the requested CashApp
payment Baker requested from Maurice Jiggetts.
CALL #3690 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, AT
11:58AM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 410-493-9946, A PHONE USED BY
MAURICE JIGGETTS TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo cuz.”
Jiggetts: “What’s up head?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much and shit, my bad buddy yesterday bro, I, I um I
was tied up enough to get to do it but Imma bout to do it now
though.”
Jiggetts: “Alright bet, that’s wassup, that’s wassup, she sent it over too right
she got it you got it.”
Baker: “Yea, yea I got it, I got it yesterday.”
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Jiggetts: “Alright that’s what.”
Baker: “Did you send your address out already?”
Jiggetts: “Nah, ah send it to you right now.”
Baker: “Alright do it cuz.”
Jiggetts: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on the above voice call and the CashApp payment from “Wanda
Jiggetts,” it is your affiants’ opinion that Jiggetts asked Baker if he received the
CashApp payment that “she,” believed to reference Wanda Jiggetts, sent. Baker
confirmed he received it and then asked Maurice Jiggetts to send him the
address of where to send the package.
Maurice Jiggetts followed up with the address and Baker sent Maurice
Jiggetts the tracking number once he mailed the package:
CALLS #3692, 3713, 3717, 3721, 3723, AND 3727 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D.
2022 ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, BETWEEN 11:59AM AND 2:53PM, A SERIES
OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 410-493-9946, A PHONE USED BY
MAURICE JIGGETTS, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Jiggetts (Call #3692): “337 Scott St. 21230 Baltimore Maryland.”
Baker (Call #3713): “Name?”
Jiggetts (Call #3717): “Any name.”
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Baker (Call #3721) Baker (Call #3723)
Jiggetts (Call #3727): “Thanks”
SURVEILLANCE ON FEBRUARY 16, 2022 – BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
On Wednesday, February 16, 2022, surveillance officers responded to 337
Scott Street, Baltimore, Maryland in attempt to capture the UPS delivery of the
8”x8”x8” package (Tracking #1Z1X17390312400044) shipped by Tyrone Baker
to that address.
At approximately 10:40AM, Detective Stanley observed a black male exit
337 Scott Street. This male was approximately 50 years of age, 6”2” tall with a
beard, and walking with a limp. Detective Vinter maintained surveillance of this
individual as he walked directly to the University of Maryland Medical Center
located at 22 S. Green Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. At approximately
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11:57AM, Detective Vinter observed the same male return to 337 Scott Street.
Upon arrival, he used a key to gain access into the front door.
At approximately 1:59PM, Detective Vinter observed the same male as
mentioned in the above paragraph standing on his front steps talking on his
cellular phone. Seconds later, a Toyota pickup truck, gold in color, displaying
Maryland registration 8EM3345 arrived and parked across the street from 337
Scott Street. The black male operator exited the vehicle and followed the male on
his cellular phone into the home. An inquiry through a law enforcement database
revealed the vehicle is listed on a 2003 Toyota Tundra to Durrell Lamont
Johnson, 214 S. Dallas Court, Baltimore, Maryland. At approximately 2:13PM,
the male exited the residence and departed the area in his Toyota.
At approximately 2:23PM, Detective Vinter observed a Lexus, black in
color, displaying Maryland registration 5ET6038 arrive and parked in front of
337 Scott Street. The black male exited the vehicle and walked to 337 Scott
Street. Upon arrival, he removed mail from the mailbox, then used a key to enter
the home. Three minutes later, the same male exited the home and departed the
area in the Lexus. An inquiry through a law enforcement database revealed the
vehicle is listed on a 2013 Lexus to Maurice Roland Jiggetts Jr, 337 Scott Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.
At approximately 2:58PM, Detective Vinter observed a UPS delivery truck
stop on the roadway directly in front of 337 Scott Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
Moments later, the driver delivered a medium sized cardboard box to 337 Scott
Street. Upon arriving at the steps, the driver knocked on the door. Seconds later,
Sergeant Faherty and Detective Stanley observed a light skinned black male,
approximately 45 – 50 years of age and 6’2” tall with a bald head, grey facial hair,
and a distinctive tattoo on the right side of his neck open the front door and
retrieve the package. Upon taking possession of the package, he returned to his
home, and the UPS driver departed the area.
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the UPS package that surveillance observed being delivered to 337 Scott
Street, Baltimore, Maryland and then taken inside the residence was the
shipment of drugs that Tyrone Baker sent to Maurice Jiggetts discussed above.
ANTHONY GUASPERINI DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY
15, 2022
CALLS #181, 183, 187, 193, 195, 235, AND 241 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022
ON FEBRUARY 15, 2022, BETWEEN 4:36PM AND 7:52PM, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 610-496-1823, A PHONE USED BY ANTHONY
GUASPERINI, AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Guasperini (Call #181): “You be around tonight?”
Baker (Call #183): “Yeah, what’s up?”
Guasperini (Call #187): “The usual. How does 7:30 sound for tonight.”
Guasperini (Call #193): “Rock please the last was shaky.”
Call #195
Baker: "Hello."
Guasperini: "Yo.”
Baker: “Yo.”
Guasperini: “What’s up?”
Baker: “What’s up with you?”
Guasperini: “Is seven thirty eight O’clock good?”
Baker: “It don’t matter bro.”
Guasperini: “Alright, ah, ah, I’ll meet you at seven thirty then the usual
spot down there I guess.”
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Baker: “Just call me, I might be somewhere else but I ain’t gonna be
far from there, just call me.”
Guasperini: “OK, alright, I’ll call you on my way alright?”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Alright brother.”
Guasperini: (Call #235): “2 minutes”
Call #241
Guasperini: “Hello?”
Baker: “Yea, what’s up Tony?”
Guasperini: “I’m here aight.”
Baker: “Hey look drive up drive up Hirst.”
Guasperini: “Drive up where?”
Baker: “Drive up the street, you know the street that um that street
that’s I guess right in front of you or right next to you?”
Guasperini: “Yea, what the one past the gas station...that I met you
before.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Guasperini: “The one I go past the gas the gas station, that one?”
Baker: “Yea.”
Guasperini: “And make a left, alright.”
Baker: “Nah keep going straight don’t make a left just keep going
straight.”
Guasperini: “I know I mean make a left on that street and keep going and
come down that. Where I met you before down there right?
That street, what’s the name of the street?”
Baker: “You on the street, where you at?”
Guasperini: “I’m at the gas station.”
Baker: “You at the gas station?”
Guasperini: “Sunoco.”
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Baker: “Are you at the air pump?”
Guasperini: “Sunoco.”
Baker: “You at the air pump?”
Guasperini: “I’m by the dumpster but I’m moving now.”
Baker: “All’s you got to do is go up that street right there right next
to you.”
Guasperini: “OK right here by the station, alright.”
Baker: “Yea, go up the street.”
Guasperini: “Ok.”
Baker: “Go to the stop sign and when you get to the stop sign cross
over onto the other street and park up on your left hand
side.”
Guasperini: “OK, alright, gotcha, alright I’ll see you up there.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Alright.”
Surveillance of Baker on February 15, 2022
Surveillance officers followed Baker during the above referenced
intercepted calls. At 7:53PM, fixed surveillance observed Baker leaving 57
Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne, entering his vehicle and departing.
In reference to Call Number 241, Docket 38-6, Detective Daywalt observed
a black Mazda (PA Registration KXH-7916) departing the Sunoco gas station and
turning onto Hirst Avenue, the street where the drug transaction was supposed
to be. Detective Daywalt described the operator of the Mazda as a white male,
white hair approximately in his mid to late 50’s. Detective Daywalt was able to
positively identify this male as the registered owner of the vehicle, Anthony
Guasperini.
At approximately 7:55PM, Detective Daywalt reported that the Mazda
parked in the area of 108 Hirst Avenue and Baker arrived shortly after in his
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white Dodge Charger (PA registration LMS-5730). Baker parked his vehicle
behind the Mazda. From a distance, Detective Daywalt observed a figure exit the
Mazda and approached Baker’s vehicle and then returned to the Mazda. The
vehicles then both departed the area.
At approximately 8:00 PM, fixed surveillance showed that Baker returned
to 57 Melrose Avenue.
Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Baker and Guasperini met on Hirst to complete a drug transaction.
ANTHONY GUASPERINI DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY
18, 2022
CALLS #368, 431, 436, 439, 451, AND 453 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON
FEBRUARY 17, 2022, THROUGH FEBRUARY 18, 2022, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 610-496-1823, A PHONE USED BY ANTHONY
GUASPERINI, AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Guasperini (Call #368): “You around”
Guasperini (Call #431): “You going to be around today. Give me a call
when u get a minute”
Baker (Call #436): “Sure, what’s up?”
Call #439
Baker: “Hello?”
Guasperini: “Yo, you gonna be around today?”
Baker: “Yea, what time you trying to meet up?”
Guasperini: “What time ah what time good for you?”
Baker: “Um you can meet me around like ah what time is it now?”
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Guasperini: “It’s about twenty after twelve.”
Baker: “Yea, if you can if you can meet at like 1 o’clock that be
cool.”
Guasperini: “Like alright, alright where at same spot?”
Baker: “Yea, that’s ah yea that’s cool.”
Guasperini: “Alright, meet you there at 1 o’clock.”
Baker: “Yea, 1 o’clock that be perfect.”
Guasperini: “Alright you got it.”
Baker: “Buying same thing.”
Guasperini: “Yep, OK.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Yep.”
Call #451
Guasperini: “Yo, I’m at, I’m at the gas station in ah black Toyota Tacoma
pick up.”
Baker: “Oh um alright, I’m like five minutes away, I’m like five, six
minutes away I’ll be there.”
Guasperini: “Alright, Imma Alright I’ll see you.”
Baker: “I/A”
Call #453
Guasperini: “Hello.”
Baker: “Yo bro where you at?”
Guasperini: “I’m in at the gas station.”
Baker: “I/A”
Guasperini: “The gas station in in the truck.”
Baker: “Who you with?”
Guasperini: “Huh?”
Baker: “I said who you with, you by yourself?”
Guasperini: “Yeah, black pick up.”
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Baker: “Alright, alright Imma gonna pass you I need you to follow
me real quick.”
Guasperini: “Where you at?”
Baker: “Um.”
Guasperini: “You want me go up that street again, that Hirst or whatever
it’s called?”
Baker: “I/A”
Guasperini: “What’s that?”
Baker: “I/A”
Guasperini: “Yeah, little black one.”
Baker: “I/A”
Guasperini: “Yea, OK, gotch you.”
Baker: “I/A watch out the cop coming down the street.”
Guasperini: “Yeah.”
Surveillance of Baker on February 18, 2022
At approximately 12:59PM, surveillance officers observed a black Toyota
Tacoma (PA registration YRG-3642) parked in the parking lot of the Sunoco gas
station, 401 E. Baltimore Pike East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Detective Fuentes
observed that the operator of the Tacoma was a white male.
At approximately 1:18PM, Detectives Daywalt and Stanley observed Baker
arrive in his Dodger Charger (LMS-5730) at the Sunoco and departed with the
Toyota following on Hirst Avenue. Shortly after, Detective Fuentes observed both
Baker and the white male who was operating the Toyota meeting in the area of
424 Greenwood Avenue. Detective Fuentes observed Baker approach the driver’s
side of the Toyota and immediately returned to his vehicle and both vehicles
departed in separate ways.
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Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience along with the
intercepted calls and the surveillance, it is their opinion that Baker and
Guasperini met on Greenwood Avenue to complete a drug transaction.
ANTHONY GUASPERINI DRUG DEAL THREE:
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
CALLS #1312, 1463, 1471, 1475, 1477, 1479, AND 1484 ON DOCKET 38-6
E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022, BETWEEN 2:52PM AND 10:18PM, A
SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 610-496-1823, A PHONE USED
BY ANTHONY GUASPERINI, AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker (Call #1312): “It’s around “
Call #1463
Baker: “Hello.”
Guasperini: “Yo wassup?”
Baker: “What’s up bro?”
Guasperini: “You around?”
Baker: “Yes sirski.”
Guasperini: “Huh?”
Baker: “Yup.”
Guasperini: “Alright, ah give me like fort-five minutes.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool, what you want the zone?”
Guasperini: “Half one.”
Baker: “Oh ya don’t want the whole thing?”
Guasperini: “Huh?”
Baker: “I/A”
Guasperini: “The usual, half.”
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Baker: “Alright, I gotchyou.”
Guasperini: “Alright, I’ll call you when I’m out there…alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #1469
Guasperini: “Hello.”
Baker: “Yo Tony.”
Guasperini: “Yo.”
Baker: “What’s up where you at?”
Guasperini: “I’m on the road, I I’ll be about, about twenty minutes.”
Baker: “You said you be about twenty minutes?”
Guasperini: “Yea.”
Baker: “AAHHH, alright damn, I had a…”
Guasperini: “Alright…alright I call you soon as I get up close. Alright.”
Baker: “Alright, he’s gotta yo.”
Baker (Call #1471): “Can you meet me somewhere else?”
Guasperini (Call #1475): “Where at?”
Call #1477
Baker: “Yo Tony.”
Guasperini: “Yo, where else you want to meet me at?”
Baker: “Um, I gotta pick up my young boy from work so if you can meet
me um I/A if you can meet me I got to go towards like Live Casino.”
Guasperini: “Where at?”
Baker: “To where, you know where the stadium is the football stadium like
the sixers stadium?”
Guasperini: “Yea..yea.”
Baker: “I gotta go there, I gotta go there so if you can meet there to like
Live Casino that would be perfect bro.”
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Guasperini: “How long you gonna be, I’ll meet you there, like Pattison Avenue
or something?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Guasperini: “Pattison Avenue or one of them.”
Baker: “Broad and Pattison.”
Guasperini: “Broad and Pattison.”
Baker: “Yup.”
Guasperini: “Alright, I’ll be there in like ten minutes I guess.”
Baker: “Alright appreciate.”
Guasperini: “Alright...alright, I’ll be in my truck my black Toyota.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Alright, OK Alright, I’ll see ya.”
Call #1479
Baker: “Hello?”
Guasperini: “Yo where you gonna meet me at?”
Baker: “Um, at the bus stop on Broad and Pattison. You gone turn, you
gone go to your um, at the bus stop. You’re gonna go to your right.
When you get to the stadium, go towards to your right on Broad and
Pattison.”
Guasperini: “Alright. I’m on Pattison right now.”
Baker: “You’re on Broad and Pattison?”
Guasperini: “Um, that’s behind me. I’m on Pattison.”
Baker: “Alright well just park up somewhere bro. Like I don’t know, just-
Broad and Pattison.”
Guasperini: “And walk back?”
Baker: “Naw”
Guasperini: “Huh?”
Baker: “Just find a, just find a parking spot and park there. Imma be there
in like 5, 10 minutes.”
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Guasperini: “Alright I’m here. I’m parked. I’m to the right. Soon as you uh, when
you make the uh, turn on Pattison and come down towards the
stadium on the right side.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Right before the Wells Fargo sign.”
Baker: “Alright. Make sure you not illegally parked bro.”
Guasperini: “Yeah, I am.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “There’s people here. If I have to move, I’ll move and I’ll tell you,
alright?”
Baker: “Alright.”
Guasperini: “Alright I’ll see ya. Alright. Later.”
Call #1484
Guasperini: “Hello?”
Baker: “What’s up Tony? Where you at?”
Guasperini: “You see that truck with blinking lights on it? The strobe lights?
The yellow lights?”
Baker: “Nah.”
Guasperini: “Pattison?”
Baker: “On Pattison?” “Where you at? You…you...are you before or after
the Wells Fargo jawn?”
Guasperini: “I’m before the signs and shit.”
Baker: “Alright come...keep driving…past past the Wells Fargo you gonna
see the buses. You see this bus? There is a number four bus and
there’s a bus that say Broad and Pattison. It’s on your…it’s
towards your right when you pass the Wells Fargo Center.”
Guasperini: “Alright I’m coming down ther now.”
Baker: “The bus right now is pulling...is pulling off and shit. You see it?
You see the bus pulling off?”
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Guasperini: “On Pattison? I’m on Pattison now I’m not on the other side of
Wells Fargo.”
Baker: “Wait you said you I/A you said you were near the Wells Fargo
bro?”
Guasperini: “Uh I’m right in front of the Xfinity place now.”
Baker: “The what?”
Guasperini: “The bar? Xfinity?”
Baker: “Oh you over there! You…Alright well…well look you near the
Xfinity and the and the Live Casino?
Guasperini: “The casino is over far from me.”
Baker: “You said what?”
Guasperini: “The casino is right over from me.”
Baker: “Alright look go to Live Casino.
Guasperini: “Go to where? This casino?”
Baker: “Go to Live Casino I’ll just meet you over there or something bro.”
Guasperini: “Alright. Okay. Alright.”
Baker: “Cause you already over there, right?”
Guasperini: “What’s that?”
Baker: “You already over there, right? Ain’t you?”
Guasperini: “I’m near the stadium. I uh have to make a turn and go across the
other side.”
Baker: “If you near…I don’t get it bro. How you..?”
Guasperini: “I/A It’s on the other side of the stadium right? The Phillies
stadium? The uh casino, right?”
Baker: “The Phillies stadium is right here. The the Live Casino end is over
on the other side and shit.”
Guasperini: “Yeah. Alright.”
Baker: “Now I’m over here near the stadium to where the buses at.”
Guasperini: “On which street?”
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Baker: “On…let me see let me step outside cause I don’t know. Uh…I’m on
Pattison. I’m literally on Pattison on Broad and Pattison. You
gonna see the…it say the…I/A.”
Guasperini: “I know where that bus stop is you’re talking about.”
Baker: “Yeah I’m over here at the bus stop.”
Guasperini: “What’s that?”
Baker: “I’m right here near…at the bus stop.”
Guasperini: “Alright I’m coming back up that way I’ll be on the other side of the
street coming up.”
Baker: “Yeah like...hey I’m on the side where it’s gonna say…it say the
station the NV…the the the NRG station and shit.”
Guasperini: “Alright I’m coming back up Pattison now. I’m on Pattison and 11th
street right in front of Citizens Bank Park and the uh bar the
Xfinity bar.”
Baker: “Now you on Pattison now I see how Pattison is. When you get to
get to the…when you get to…when you get to Broad and Pattison.”
Guasperini: “Right.”
Baker: “When you get to Broad and Pattison, you gonna make a right and
I’m right here bro.”
Guasperini: “Okay. Alright. I’ll meet you…I’ll be there in a minute soon as the
light changes I/A I’ll be there. I know where you’re at then. It’s up
the street from the bus stop, right?”
Baker: “No. I’m on the same side as the bus stop.”
Guasperini: “Yeah but I mean you’re across the street between it. There’s a
street between you and the…”
Baker: “There’s a street between me and the uhm…”
Guasperini: “Yeah Pattison Avenue and you’re to the right.”
Baker: “Yeah I’m on Pattison Ave. Like no no no I’m on Broad I/A at the
corner.”
Guasperini: “Alright I’m coming up there now.”
Baker: “And you gonna make a sharp right.”
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Guasperini: “Alright I got you.”
Baker: “Like look. I’m going to walk to Broad and Pattison the corner and
shit.”
Guasperini: “Alright uhm uh. Alright I’m going to make a right on Broad right
here.”
Baker: “You see me?”
Guasperini: “Where you at?”
Baker: “This truck right here?”
Guasperini: “Yeah okay yeah that’s me.”
Baker: “Alright come on turn turn turn make this right. Park in front of
my Charger park in front of my car. In the front in the front.”
According to the GPS coordinates of Baker’s phone, 267-670-4429, at
10:24PM on February 26, 2022, Baker’s phone was within 2 meters of
coordinates (39.905895, -75.173328) – this is in close proximity to the
intersection of S. Broad Street and Pattison Avenue.
Based on the above intercepted communications, GPS coordinates for
Baker’s phone, and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that this meeting between Baker and Guasperini was consistent with a
drug transcation.
LINDA SCHMIDS DRUG DEAL ONE: OCTOBER 6, 2021
On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at approximately 12:45PM, surveillance
officers, including Montgomery County Detectives Nate Walters and Michael
Laverty, followed Baker, who was operating a silver Hyundai Sonata (PA
Registration LTN-8537), from 512 Pembroke Avenue to McDonald’s restaurant,
201 E. Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Baker entered the drive-thru,
appearing to make a purchase. Baker then exited the parking lot onto Baltimore
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Ave, then immediately reentered the parking lot and parked away from the
restaurant and remained in the vehicle. After less than a minute, surveillance
observed a white female, later identified as Linda Schmids, exit a Volkswagen
sedan bearing PA registration LRA-7688 and approach Baker’s vehicle. Schmids
met Baker at the driver’s side window of his car and did a hand-to-hand
exchange with Baker. Following the exchange, Baker left the parking lot and
drove to Melrose Avenue, parking on the street in the area of the house.
Surveillance watched as Schmids walked away from Baker and entered
McDonald’s. After a couple minutes, Schmids exited the restaurant with a full
McDonald’s bag and entered her vehicle alone. Schmids then left the area.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, your affiants recognize this hand-to-hand exchange to be
consistent with a drug deal.
LINDA SCHMIDS DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY 24,
2022
On February 23, 2022, Baker received an incoming phone call from a
phone number used by Linda Schmids. During the call, Baker called the female
caller “Linda” and told her that he’d be back in Philadelphia the following day.
CALL #967 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022, AT
5:23PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-896-3049, A PHONE USED
BY LINDA SCHMIDS, TO 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello.”
U/F: “Black.”
Baker: “Yo, what’s up Linda?”
U/F: “You I/A there for a minute (laugh) you all good?”
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Baker: “Yeah I’m good what’s going on?”
U/F: “Nothing I just need to get something off you can I meet up with
you?”
Baker: “No I’m not around there right now, I’m gonna be back in Philly
tomorrow.”
U/F: “Hold on I lost you…you be back in Philly when?”
Baker: “I’m gonna be back in Philly tomorrow.”
U/F: “Tomorrow?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/F: “Alright, in the evening or in the morning?”
Baker: “Ah, I’m be back in the morning.”
U/F: “Ok, alright then I’ll meet up with up tomorrow. Is that cool?”
Baker: “Yeah it’s cool we can meet at like 11 or 12 that’s cool.”
U/F: “Yeah, I get off at 12.”
Baker: “Ok that’s cool I’m I/A when you get off work.”
U/F: “Alright, cool.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Alright thanks.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/F: “Bye.”
On February 24, 2022, Baker and Schmids discussed and then
consummated the drug transaction.
CALLS #1017, 1018, 1043, 1057, 1059, 1061, 1063, 1065, 1067, 1069, AND
1071 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022, A SERIES OF
TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN 267-896-3049, A PHONE USED BY LINDA
SCHMIDS, AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
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Schmids (Calls #1017, 1018): “I’m gonna need an O and I didn’t realize I don’t
get off work until 1-1:30 today so when I get done
I will call you if that’s cool”
Schmids (Call #1043): “Het getting ready to leave work and go to the
Sunoco in Lansdowne. What is the price 600 or
650?”
Schmids (Call #1057): “Hey what’s up? You around now?? Trying to grab
that and then get home b/c I gotta finish work
from home.”
Schmids (Call #1059): “Yo”
Baker (Call #1061): “Meet me at the house”
Schmids (Call #1063): “Ok”
Schmids (Call #1065): “Here”
Schmids (Call #1067): “650 or 600”
Baker (Call #1069): “650”
Schmids (Call #1071): “Ok”
Surveillance of Baker on February 24, 2022
At approximately 1:50PM, fixed surveillance observed Linda Schmids’
silver Volkswagen Golf arrive and park on Melrose Avenue. A short time later,
Baker pulled up near Schmids’ vehicle. A female, later identified as Linda
Schmids, exited her vehicle and entered the front passenger seat of Baker’s
Dodge Charger. Baker drove his vehicle around the block and then parked in
front of 57 Melrose Avenue. Fixed surveillance observed Schmids exit Baker’s
vehicle and return to her vehicle. Baker exited his vehicle and entered 57 Melrose
Avenue at approximately 1:58PM.
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Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Baker and Schmids met on Melrose Avenue to complete a drug
transaction, consistent with the sale of an ounce (“O”) of methamphetamine in
exchange for $650.
LINDA SCHMIDS DRUG DEAL THREE: FEBRUARY 26,
2022
CALLS #1371, 1373, 1375, 1395, 1481, AND 1489 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D.
2022 ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN
6:22PM AND 10:34PM BETWEEN 267-896-3049, A PHONE USED BY LINDA
SCHMIDS, AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Schmids (Call #1371): “Hey B any chance you have that yet??”
Baker (Call #1373): “Yea I’m around”
Schmids (Call #1375): “Oh ok are you going to be around my way at all soon?
It don’t have to be tonight maybe tomorrow or Monday?”
Call #1395
Schmids: “Hello.”
Baker: “What’s up Linda?”
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Schmids: “I/A”
Baker: “Alright, so I know I gave you a half, but I just owe you the other half
and shit right.”
Schmids: “Yea.”
Baker: “You need anything too, or?”
Schmids: “Do I need any more than that?”
Baker: “Yea?”
Schmids: “No, not right now, I’m good.”
Baker: “Alright, so where you at, you at the house?”
Schmids: “Yea, I’m at my apartment. I mean if you want to, I mean look. I don’t
want to bring you all out if you don’t feel, you’re not coming out.”
Baker: “It depend because my young buhl work at the stadium, so I got to
pick him up from work tonight. I’ll bring him with me and I’ll just
uhm, I’ll just I/A for real.”
Schmid: “Alright, that works, that works. If you’re coming out, that works.”
Baker: “Alright, so.”
Schmids: “Alright, thank you.”
Baker: “Alright I got you sis.”
Schmids: “Alright, I’ll talk to you later.”
Baker: “Alright, later.”
Schmids: “Alright Bye.”
Baker: “Bye.”
Call #1481
Schmids: “Hey babe what’s up?”
Baker: “Hello?”
Schmids: “I/A you here?”
Baker: “Ayo Linda imma be at your crib in like 15 minutes.”
Schmids: “Alright. I’m here.”
Baker: “Imma drop it off for you.”
Schmids: “I/A Alright bye.”
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Call #1489
Schmids: “Hello? Are you here?”
Baker: “I’m outside babe.”
Schmids: “I’m coming.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Schmids: “Alright bye.”
GPS coordinates (39.915701, -75.163608) from pings associated with 267-
670-4429 at 10:39PM placed Baker in the immediate area of 10th Street and
Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. According to PennDOT records, Schmids
current address was listed as 2329 S. 12th Street, in South Philadelphia, which
is closeby the area of 10th Street and Oregon Avenue.
Based on the above voice calls, the GPS coordinates for Baker’s phone,
and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that
this meeting between Baker and Linda Schmids, was consistent with a drug
transaction.
UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE PAT VAHEY DRUG
DEAL ONE (369 LAKEVIEW STREET, DREXEL HILL):
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
CALLS #1311, 1315, 1333, 1365, 1384, 1385, AND 1403 ON DOCKET 38-6
E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022, BETWEEN 2:52PM AND 7:23PM, A
SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 610-818-5496, A PHONE
BELIEVED TO BE USED BY PAT VAHEY AND 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED
BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker (Call #1311): “It’s around”
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Call #1315
Baker: “Yo Pat.”
U/M: “Yo B what’s up man.”
Baker: “What’s up.”
U/M: “You alright?”
Baker: “Yeah I’m good.”
U/M: “Listen you talk to your partner?”
Baker: “You said who?”
U/M: “Your partner.”
Baker: “What partner, who dat?”
U/M: “I dunno. I called this number of yours yesterday, and…”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/M: “I called this number, one of these numbers I had for you and I
said yo.”
Baker: “I ain’t got no partner bro, what you talking about?”
U/M: “Yeah well listen, listen, listen. Let me tell you this story. I asked
for B and he’s ohh I’m his partner. He goes, uh, you want
something I’ll meet you here and there. And I said no I/A. His
name was L or Lid or something…”
Baker: “His name what?”
U/M: “You want me to give you the number? You want me to the number
I called him, to?”
Baker: “Yeah what’s his number?”
U/M: “Hold on, alright let me get… hold on. Alright hold on. Its uhh (U/F
stated ‘huh? what happened?’ in background) hold on, hold on.
I/A gotta go back in here.”
Baker: “Yeah bro I ain’t got no partner bro.”
U/M: “Uh yeah that’s… see, uh hold on umm. How do I get, how do… no
I don’t want that…”
U/F: “Hey B.”
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Baker: “Yo.”
U/F: “Pat don’t know nothing.”
Baker: “Huh?”
U/F: “Pat don’t know nothing.”
Baker: “Oh.”
U/F: “And neither do I right now. Why can’t you go to your call log?”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/F: “I’m trying to go to his call- he’s trying to get to his call I/A.”
Baker: “Oh his call log. Oh his call log. Oh alright I see what you’re saying.
Alright.”
U/F: “Here you go which one is it.”
U/M: “Umm.”
Baker: “Yeah bro.”
U/F: “Are you there?”
U/M: “Yeah hold on.”
Baker: “Yo.”
U/F: “Yeah talk to him.”
U/M: “Yo here it is. Here’s the number that I called to umm, oh this
one’s up here in the way. Here you got 267.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “3… 315-9521.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “He said he… he said he was your partner.”
Baker: “He said he was my partner?”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “Yeah I ain’t got no fucking partner I/A I’m about to call boy…”
U/M: “And I called him, and I called him he said that, he said that uh
yeah he, he was your partner and all and blah blah boom. He got
my address, he goes you’re in Dre- Drexel Hill.”
Baker: “I ain’t got no fucking partner. I’mma call buhl and see what’s up
then.”
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U/M: “You want to call me back, or?”
Baker: (Laughing) “What would that shit nigga what the fuck?”
U/M: “That’s why, that’s why I let you know. I thought it was funny.”
Baker: “Oh. You still need something?”
U/M: “Uh, yeah.”
Baker: “Alright and shit.”
U/M: “Umm, for the whole, what a whole cost?”
Baker: “That’s your thing? Alright. Alright so I got you. I’mma umm, give
me like a half I’ll be over there. What you needed?”
U/M: “What you got a whole, what’s a whole cost?”
Baker: “Umm $625.”
U/M: (Grumbles) “mmm… alright.”
Baker: “Alright, you be good? You want that?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright I’ll be there.”
U/M: “Alright later.”
Baker: “Uh.”
Call #1333
Baker: “Hello.”
U/M: “Yo, like did you give me a time.”
Baker: “Huh?”
U/M: “Can you give me the time?”
Baker: “Um… it’s gonna be like around 5, say 5/5:30.”
U/M: “Oh that late, ah shit. I got wheels if you want me to come to you.”
Baker: “It’s not even that, it’s that the um… I got somebody that wants all
this and I gotta go grab another one (stuttering) teh, teh, you know
with two and shit.”
U/M: “Uh hun.”
Baker: “That’s the only thing.”
U/M: “Alright.”
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Baker: “That’s too late?”
U/M: (Speaking over Baker) “I mean, I got a ride I mean I can go to
Southwest. I mean closer to you somehow.”
Baker: “What you mean? Nah, I don’t that’s I’m not talking about closer
U/M: (Speaking over Baker) “Yeah.”
Baker: “I don’t, it’s not about closer.”
U/M: (speaking over Baker) “Oh alright.”
Baker: “I got it covered. Huh, like its not about that. I’m, I’mma leaving
round 5 I/A.”
U/M: “Round 5.”
Baker: “Leaving like 5.”
U/M: (Speaking at the same time has Baker) “Okay.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Call #1365
U/M: (Speaking over Baker) “You avoiding me?”
Baker: (Speaking over U/M) “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yo.”
Baker: (Baker and U/M speaking at same time) “Yo what’s up Pat?”
U/M: (U/M and Baker speaking at same time) “Yo what’s up?”
U/M: “What’s hot? Anytime soon?”
Baker: “Huh?”
U/M: “Anytime soon?”
Baker: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am just leaving Jersey and shit so… I’mma be
back, um I’mma be back in Lansdale probably like, like a half
hour.”
U/M: “Half an hour?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright.”
U/M: “You coming right here or do I need to still come?”
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Baker: “Yeah, where you, where you gonna, where you at?”
U/M: “I’m in, I’m in Drexel Hill, but you want me to meet you
somewhere?”
Baker: “No that’s cool, I’mma come right there to Drexel Hill.”
U/M: “Alright, thanks.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Baker (Call #1384): “wya"
Call #1385
00:07 - 00:43
U/M: “Yo B.”
Baker: “Yo what’s up Pat?”
U/M: “Nah.”
Baker: “What’s, where you at?”
U/M: “U/ My young girl just ran out on me, laughs.”
Baker: “You said what?”
U/M: “Huh?”
Baker: “Pat, What you say buddy?”
U/M: “I said my young girl ran out on me ah um, you got a whole one
right?”
Baker: “Yea, yea you want a whole one right?”
U/M: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright I’m be there in like five minutes.”
U/M: “Oh five minutes, you coming in you want me come out?”
Baker: “Um, it don’t matter bro, I don’t fucking know.”
610-818-5496 (Call #1403): “369 Lakeview Drexel Hill”
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According to the GPS coordinates of Baker’s phone, 267-670-4429, at
7:39PM on February 26, 2022, Baker’s phone was within 4 meters of coordinates
(39.947866, -75.286303) – this is in close proximity to 369 Lakeview Avenue,
Drexel Hill, PA.
Based on the above voice calls, the GPS coordinates for Baker’s phone,
and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that
this meeting between Baker and the male, believed to be Vahey, was consistent
with a drug transaction.
DANIEL ALLEN
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that Daniel “D” Allen is Oxycodone pill and marijuana dealer. It is
further the opinion of your affiants that during this investigation, Daniel Allen
sold controlled substances, in pill form, to Tyrone Baker and Trivinia Quintana
on multiple occasions, as supported by the below referenced calls.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL ONE: JANUARY 31, 2022
CALL #615 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 31, 2022, AT 9:24
AM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 610-844-2253, A PHONE BELIEVED
TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
01:42 - 2:05
Allen: “I/A got to run downtown to get these 30’s real quick.”
Baker: “Shit, I got to go downtown, bro, you woke me up early, I got to go
downtown to see my PO and shit, but I don’t have to be down till like
eleven and shit, closer to twelve.”
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Allen: “I/A I’m going to come straight, I’m going to come straight there
then.”
Based on the above phone call and later investigation and intercepted
calls, the unknown male, later identified as Daniel Allen, stated that he needed
to go “get these 30’s.” Your affiants recognize this to be a reference to thirty (30)
milligram pills, possibly Oxycodone – based on the other intercepted calls
discussing “percs”. Your affiants know that these pills are commonly referred to
by their strength, which they opine is the case in the above call. It is your affiants’
opinion that Allen told Baker that he needed to go “downtown” to buy pills. Your
affiants also believe that Baker later asked Allen to “grab” pills from him.
CALL #659 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 31, 2022, AT
12:16PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 610-844-2253, A PHONE
BELIEVED TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: "Yo bro."
Allen: "Yo I/A already?"
Baker: "Um, I’m actually boutta walk inside this jawn now, for real."
Allen: "Ah shit, that’s funny as shit."
Baker: "Yeah."
Allen: "I just run downtown, I’m back up in the county already."
Baker: "Oh yeah, I’m on the I/A she told me I don’t gotta come till like one
or two, or before one or two, so I went to the crib, changed my I/A,
washed up."
Allen: "Mines is fucking, yo don’t forget you owe me too nigga."
Baker: "What?"
Allen: "I mean, I heard you got that good old boom boom last night, don’t
forget, I gave Kite that that that ten and put it on your tab, I gave
her ten and put it on your tab."
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Baker: "Ah shit."
Allen: "Why you think, why you aint think I aint give you ya 5 dollars,
cause ya owe me 20."
Baker: "You funny as shit."
Allen: "Ya mean you can’t say I aint, I aint, throw you, I threw you a I/A ya
mean.”
Baker: "Yo I/A."
Allen: "Got her lit for you, ya mean, gave her the 10, got her lit for you she
I/A she popped that jawn."
Baker: "Ya I/A shit."
Allen: "She popped that jawn on the bar like, let me take my baby home
and shit."
Baker: "I/A funny as shit."
Allen: "I’m fucked up, ya mean."
Baker: "I/A"
Allen: "That’s, that’s, that’s what big bro do for you, ya mean."
Baker: "I/A funny as shit, where, where you at now? What you just got back
into the county?"
Allen: "Yeah I just grabbed 30s and shit, fresh batch."
Baker: "Oh alright shit I/A no."
Allen: "They still give me the RP’s too."
Baker: "Oh yeah? Lemme, I’m just walking into the joint I/A metal detector
and all that shit."
Allen: "Go ahead do your thing bro."
Based upon the above voice call, your affiants opine that Baker and Allen
are again discussing pills. Allen told Baker that he grabbed a “fresh batch” of
30’s with the “RP’s.” A check through the website Drugs.com showed that “RP”
is the imprint on a white round pill containing 325mg of Acetaminophen and
10mg of Oxycodone Hydrochloride, a Schedule II Pennsylvania controlled
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substance. It is your affiants’ opinion that Allen and Baker were discussing Allen
purchasing a new supply of Oxycodone pills.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL TWO: FEBRUARY 1, 2022
CALL #785 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT
12:09PM, OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 610-844-2253, A PHONE BELIEVED
TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
Allen: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo wassup bro?”
Allen: “Wassup my nigga?”
Baker: “Ain’t too much man I/A you at the spot?”
Allen: “Yeah.”
Baker: “Alright. Alright I’m about to come fuck with you I/A real quick
and grab them jawns.”
Allen: “I/A sound.”
Baker: “Ugh. I’m- Imma be at I/A crib. I’ll be there in probably like 10
minutes.”
Allen: “I told you to grab some jawns yesterday. You ain’t wanna listen.”
Baker: “Naw it wasn’t- it’s not even that bro”.
Allen: “Nope, nope, nope.”
Baker: “Naw bro I woke up to all this nut shit dog, like I need to get fried
right now. That’s why.”
Allen: “I be tryna tell ya’ll. I be tryna tell you ahead of time. I be knowing
when shit gone happen.”
Baker: “Nigga how the fuck I/A.”
Allen: “I be knowing when shits gonna happen.”
Baker: “You know when shits about to fuck up and I/A.”
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Allen: “Yup. Yup. Yup I know dat. That’s why I/A I tried to tell you last
night like yo bro, shit gone go down tomorrow. You might as well
grab these jawns now. You like naw I’m good, I’m good.”
Baker: (Laughs) “I’m good.”
Allen: “I/A and then you callin me I/A.”
Baker: “I was gonna grab today but I wasn’t gonna grab til later today and
shit. Like later in the day but I was like naw I’m about- I gotta go
down north so I’m like lemme grab these jawns real quick from you
before I go down there.”
Allen: “I/A”
Baker: “Alright I’mma be there in like 10 minutes.”
Allen: “Word.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on the training, knowledge, and experience of your affiants and the
facts and circumstances of this investigation, your affiants opine that the
conversation detailed above is related to a drug deal between Tyrone Baker and
Daniel Allen. More specifically, Daniel Allen is selling drugs to Tyrone Baker for
Baker’s personal use.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL THREE: FEBURARY 2,
2022
CALL #884 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 2, 2022, AT 1:26
AM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 610-844-2253, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Allen: “I/A”
Baker: “Yo.”
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Allen: “Hello?”
Baker: “Yo D.”
Allen: “Yo bro.”
Baker: “What’s up bro. Where you at? You at the spot?”
Allen: “No I’m not actually. I am in Chester.”
Baker: “Alright, you coming back down here tonight?”
Allen: “What you need some jawns?”
Baker: “Yeah, and I got. I’m about to get on this flight at like six o’clock. So
I need some I/A.”
Allen: “I got some on me if you want to meet me.”
Baker: “Alright. How long you gonna be up?”
Allen: “I’m up nigger. I ain’t goin to sleep. I’m up. I got four-thirties on me
and four-tens.”
Baker: “I’m about to go get them thirties and I/A.” (Another voice talking in
the background)
Allen: “I/A”
Baker: “I/A”
Allen: “Um, you gonna come to my location?”
Baker: “I/A. Yeah bro. Where you, where you tryin to meet me?”
Allen: “I’m about to send you my location. Tell me how far you are.”
Baker: “Alright. Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the facts and circumstances of this investigation, your affiants
opine that the content of this phone call is related to a drug deal between Daniel
Allen and Tyrone Baker. In this particular instance, Allen is selling drugs to
Baker for personal use. Allen tells Baker he has four “thirties” and four “tens.”
Your affiants recognize this to be references to thirty (30) milligram and ten (10)
milligram pills, possibly Oxycodone. Your affiants know that these pills are
commonly referred to by their strength, which they opine is the case in the above
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call. Baker tells Allen that he wants the “thirties.” Allen told Baker he will send
Baker his locations so the two can consummate the drug deal.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL FOUR: FEBRUARY 7, 2022
CALL #2437 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 7, 2022, AT
2:04PM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 610-844-2253, A PHONE BELIEVED TO
BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Allen: “Yo.”
Baker: “You get my text?”
Allen: “Uhhh, hold on. Naw... did you send it?”
Baker: “Yeah I sent it, hold on, I/A, oh it’s still sending, I don’t know why,
I wanted to see if you could scale up an eighth of some gas for me.”
Allen: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright, what you looking for, how much?”
Allen: “It’s 40 I/A, so 170.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Allen: “What’s a ma call it, where our package at, nigga, that’s what I was,
that’s what I was calling you for. You cut me off.”
Baker: “Why the fuck my message not going through? My man supposed to
be sending it, um, he get back to Cali tomorrow. It’s gonna be here
before this week though.”
Allen: (Makes grunting noise)
Baker: “You talking about our package, yo, (laughing), I/A.”
Allen: “Yeah nigga, don’t play with me like, yo, I told you what it was, I told
you what it was before you left nigga, don’t be disrespecting me like
that.”
Baker: (Laughs)
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Allen: “Know mean? I’ll run down and kick in all your I/A.”
Baker: “(Laughs) I talked to him, he um, it’s, we supposed, I’m supposed to
get it, get it before this week out and shit. I think he about to go over
there and, yeah, I think he about to go send it. It’s not going through
the mail, the person come through the air way.”
Allen: “How far are you?”
Baker: “Huh?”
Allen: “How far are you?”
Baker: “What you mean? Where I’m at?”
Allen: “Yeah.”
Baker: “I’m on I/A, I’m right off of like Larchwood, like 60th, by Cobbs
I/A.”
Allen: “I thought you was on your way already.”
Baker: “Naw, hm hm, I’m over here, imma eating some, I’mma eating some
food right now.”
Allen: “Alright well the bud bagged up for you, the percs, I’mma send a
picture of everything where it’s at.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool though.”
Allen: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of this phone call is related to a drug deal, believed to be of
marijuana and Percocet pills, between Daniel Allen and Tyrone Baker.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL FIVE: FEBRUARY 10, 2022
CALL #2897 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 10, 2022, AT
2:31PM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 610-844-2253, A PHONE BELIEVED TO
BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
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Baker: “Yo bro.”
Allen: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yo D.”
Allen: “Wassup?”
Baker: “I/A bro, camera shit ready be asleep or something.”
Allen: “Yea, I’m not feeling good.”
Baker: “Oh shit (yawning). You not feelin good nigga?”
Allen: “Nah.”
Baker: “Shit, God dammit, Alright ah…I can grab some jawns real quick
I/A.”
Allen: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright, I’m at my Mom’s crib, I’m about to walk in here real quick
and come back out, I’ll be there in like five minutes, not even that.”
Allen: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of this phone call is related to a drug deal between Daniel Allen
and Tyrone Baker. In this particular instance, Allen is selling drugs, “jawns,” to
Baker for personal use. Your affiants opine that “jawns” refers to pills in this
context based on their training, knowledge, and experience coupled with the
prior communications between Allen and Baker. Allen told Baker he will be there
in five minutes so the two can consummate the drug deal.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL SIX: FEBRUARY 11, 2022
CALL #3106 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT
4:25PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 610-844-2253, A PHONE
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BELIEVED TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE
USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Allen: “Come down.”
Baker: “Alright let me come grab two jawns real quick, I can do that I/A
thirty I/A.”
Allen: “Alright, I’m right here.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the content of this phone call is related to a drug deal, specifically the sale
of two “jawns,” which based on the history between Allen and Baker identified
during this investigation your affiants opine refers to two (2) pills. Allen told
Baker that’s he’s “right here” and instructed Baker to come down.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL SEVEN: FEBRUARY 12,
2022
CALL #3326 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 12, 2022, AT
8:31PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED
BY TRIVINIA QUINTANA, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE
BAKER
Baker: “Yo what’s up I/A?”
Quintana: “Yo.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Quintana: “S/L What you doing?"
Baker: “She ain’t doing shit. She’s right here watching I/A.”
Quintana: “Oh she…she staying...uh...she staying at the house?”
Baker: “Yeah cuz my dad I/A so he gonna be a minute.”
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Quintana: “Okay they not...they not...they not going to get her?”
Baker: “S/L Priscilla say she don’t feel good so she staying with me
tonight. I thought I told you earlier but I probably didn’t.”
Quintana: “Nah you said you ain’t talk to your dad yet and you was
gonna text him I/A. But I am about to come around that way
real quick so.”
Baker: “Where you at, go see D?”
Quintana: “Yeah I/A.”
Baker: “I/A is here.”
Quintana: “Alright Imma let you know when I get there I/A.”
Baker: “You got any...you got more bread on you?”
Quintana: “Yeah.”
Baker: “S/L Grab me one from D real quick."
Quintana: “Alright.”
Baker: “Alright. Call me when you pull up.”
Quintana: “Okay.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the facts and circumstances of this investigation, your affiants
opine that the content of this phone call is related to a drug deal between Daniel
Allen and Trivinia Quintana, who was planning on seeing “D” to buy drugs from
Daniel Allen for herself and Tyrone Baker.
February 18, 2022 – Surveillance (Allen)
On February 18, 2022, at approximately 2:44PM, Detective Daywalt
observed two (2) vehicles park (Allen’s Dodge Charger and a black Dodge Charger
operated by a black female) in front of 503 E. Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania. One of the vehicles was operated by Daniel Allen (Red Charger
with black spots) and the other operated by an unidentified female. Allen was
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observed by Detectives Daywalt and Fuentes entering and exiting 503 E.
Baltimore Avenue (green door). Allen was observed entering the Lansdowne Deli
located at the corner of Baltimore and Melrose Avenue. Allen exited the Deli and
approached the black in color Charger operated by the female and handed her a
small item that was in his left pocket.
Summary of Daniel Allen Drug Sales
Based on the above incidents and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and
experience, it is their opinion that Daniel Allen is a drug trafficker who regularly
sold marijuana and pills to Baker and Quintana.
DANIEL ALLEN DRUG DEAL EIGHT: MARCH 5, 2022
CALL #6978 AND 7055 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 5, 2022, AT
4:21PM AND 10:35PM, INCOMING PHONE CALLS FROM 610-844-2253, A
PHONE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Allen: “Yo.”
Baker: “What’s up man?”
Allen: “Send me sixty on CashApp real quick and I’ll give it to you as soon
as I uh...as soon as I see you or when you pull up on me.”
Baker: “I just paid my neph…damn I just paid my I/A off of CashApp
actually. Lemme see, I don’t...bro you lucky I got fifty on there.”
Allen: “I/A to account. Alright I’m about to…I’m paying my storage real
quick.”
Baker: “I/A trying to pay them.”
(Both laughing)
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Baker: “I’m so serious nigga.”
Allen: “I/A I got the cash on me, I just not near a bank right now.”
Baker: “Yea…I just cleared my account, cleaning them bitches I/A.”
Allen: “But you say you got a fifty?”
Baker: “Yea, I got fifty on CashApp.”
Allen: “I/A already in there I/A I got on me right now S/L so I’ll take less
from you. I think my shit one fourteen, I got sixty-two, you just gave
me fifty, it’s like one...what’s that one twelve? That’s one twelve.”
(Female Voice in Background)
Allen: “Whutcha doing?”
Baker: “I’m at...I’m at Live casino waiting for my man to pull up and shit
and then and then I’m coming…I’m coming around there for real.”
Allen: “So I was crazy, I was gonna go to AC.”
Baker: “Oh, you didn’t go to AC last night?”
Allen: “Naw, I prob...I fucked I/A so he aint coming like tomorrow I/A
alright, that is one eleven and I got four dollars in my favor so let me
transfer that over to checkings…on savings four dollars...”
Baker: “Yo that’s my man right here with this bread, hold on.”
Allen: “Alright just call…call me back.”
Baker: “Alright.”
CALL #7055 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 5, 2022, AT 10:35 PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 610-844-2253, A PHONE USED BY
DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Allen: “You want me to pull up to your crib or...”
Baker: “I’ll man, you go them on you?”
Allen: “Yea I got I/A.”
Baker: “Yea, if you got them on you you can pull up and shit. But if you
had to go to the crib, I said I’ll just walk down or something.”
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Allen: “You said you were going to walk down?
Baker: “If you had them in the crib like if you had them in crib and get
them. I was saying I’ll just walk down and shit.”
Allen: “How many you S/L needing?”
Baker: “Uh...I be grabbing two.”
Allen: “I/A”
Baker: “Huh?”
Allen: “I/A”
Baker: “Do you hear me?”
Allen: “I/A I’m pulling up, come outside.”
Baker: “Alright come to the door, you might as well come in.”
Allen: “What nigga?”
Baker: “Laughing.”
Allen: “I/A you nigga?”
Baker: “I got to I/A and shit, my phone there and I/A.”
Allen: “I/A she?”
Baker: “You said what?”
Allen: “Mom not home yet, is she?”
(Phone ringing)
Baker: “She is but she knocked out, she asleep.”
Allen: “But I aint gonna…I bout...I’ll pull a little bit in the driveway and
shit.”
Baker: “Yo man I/A.”
Allen: “Now I aint pulling in the driveway and your mom I/A know what
I’m saying?”
(Male voice in background, appears that Baker is on another phone)
Baker: “Naw she cool, she asleep.”
Surveillance of 57 Melrose Avenue on March 5, 2022
On March 5, 2022, at approximately 10:37PM, fixed surveillance observed
Daniel Allen, operating his Dodge Challenger (PA registration LHW9063), arrive
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and park in the driveway of 57 Melrose Avenue, East Lansdowne. A male,
identified as Daniel Allen, exited his vehicle and entered the house. At
approximately 11:02PM, Allen exited the house, returned to his vehicle, and
departed the area towards Baltimore Avenue. A check of LHW9063 through
PennDOT records showed it registered on a 2015 Dodge Challenger to Danel
Allen, 503 E. Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050.
Based on the above intercepted phone calls, the surveillance of 57 Melrose
Avenue, and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience coupled with the
prior drug transactions between Baker and Allen, it is your affiants’ opinion that
Allen, operating his Dodge Charger, went to Baker’s house to conduct a drug
transaction for two Oxycodone pills.
SURVEILLANCE OF DANIEL ALLEN: MARCH 8, 2022
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, at approximately 12:36PM, Detective Stanley
observed Daniel Allen exit 503 E. Baltimore Avenue, Apartment 2, Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania, use a key to lock the door, enter his red Dodge Challenger,
Pennsylvania registration LHW-9063 and depart the area. This leads your
affiants to believe that Daniel Allen is still living at this location and using his
Challenger as a means of transportation.
“JOHN WAYNE” DRUG DEAL ONE SOLD BY BAKER AND
SUPPLIED BY QUILES – MARCH 4, 2022
On March 4, 2022, after Quiles picked up a shipment from 1906
Devereaux Avenue, Baker was followed to the alley behind 586 Sanger Street
where he stayed for only minutes. Surveillance followed Baker as he conducted,
what, in your affiants’ opinion are, drug transactions with Robert Smarra Jr. and
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“John Wayne.” The “John Wayne” drug transaction and corresponding voice calls
follows.
After traveling to the alley behind Sanger Street on March 4, 2022,
surveillance was maintained on Baker as he traveled to 2800 block of South 7th
Street, Philadelphia arriving at approximately 10:20PM. Baker entered 2815
South 7th Street. At approximately 10:58PM, Baker exited the house, opened the
passenger door to his vehicle, reached inside, and then returned to the house.
At approximately 11:18PM, Baker exited the house on South 7th Street, entered
his vehicle, and departed the area.
Intercepted phone calls related to Baker’s activity – Friday, March 4, 2022
During the surveillance of Baker on March 4, 2022, communications were
intercepted between Baker and an unknown male, “John Wayne,” which, in your
affiants’ opinion, were related to a drug transaction.
CALLS #1760, 1801, 1819, 1828, 1831, 1832, 1833, AND 1874 ON DOCKET
38-6 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN MARCH 3, 2022, AND MARCH 4, 2022, A SERIES
OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-780-4755, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, WITH SUBSCRIBER NAME “JOHN WAYNE,” AND 267-670-
4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #1760
(Non-pertinent conversation about a vehicle that’s not working)
Baker: “I/A. I need, I was gonna pull, I need to pull up you. You gonna be
at the house? I/A.”
U/M: “No, I’m all on the other side of the city right now trying to fucking
talk with this dude about a fucking regular job right now.”
Baker: “Oh yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah, I won’t be back to my house for about an hour and a half.”
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Baker: “Alright, oh shit. Alright, well call me when you get available and
shit bro I’m gonna save your number and you, you chilling right now
or are you trying to get back in the business or you just chilling?”
U/M: “I just, I need money, I need money yeah.”
Baker: “I/A”
U/M: “I just spent my last twelve thousand on this fucking car and I’m
ready to snap.”
Baker: “Alright. Well look call me if you got time, call me tonight I’ll pull up
on you, if not call me tomorrow, ah I’ll definitely pull up. Just call
me and I’ll pull up on you bro. I got something.”
U/M: “Alright, I got you.”
Baker: “I got something for you.”
U/M: “Ok.”
Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Thanks buddy, later.”
267-780-4755 (Call #1801): “Yo buddy”
Baker (Call #1819): “Yo bro you home”
267-780-4755 (Call #1828): “Yes sir”
267-780-4755 (Call #1831): “If u come over call me when u get here so u don’t
wake baby up with knock on doors”
Baker (Call #1832): “Ok and yes I’m a cme by”
267-780-4755 (Call #1833): “Kk”
Call #1874
U/M: “Hey buddy you here? Yo.”
Baker: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “Yo here?”
Baker: “I'm right around the corner. I was just letting you know that I'm
like 5 minutes away, like, like really 3 minutes away.”
U/M: “Okay, I'll tell her to open the door for you.”
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Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright” (speaking to person in the room with him) “Hey hun.”
The opinions regarding the transaction between Baker and “John Wayne”
is bolstered by the following voice call on March 6, 2022 where “John Wayne”
asked for “two of them sandwiches [Baker] gave [him] yesterday,” which indicates
to your affiants that the deal the prior day was completed.
CALL #2108 ON DOCKET 38-6 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 6, 2022 AT 3:16PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-780-4755, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, WITH SUBSCRIBER NAME “JOHN WAYNE,” TO 267-670-
4429, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Hello?”
U/M: “Hey big guy.”
Baker: “What's up with you bro?”
U/M: “Hey if I, I need to see you for ah, ah, ah two of them sandwiches
that you gave me yesterday.”
Baker: “Yea.”
U/M: “Ah, how, could you come see me?”
Baker: “Ahh, I can't today, I can't right now because I got my daughter
with me today.”
U/M: “That's cool, that's cool, that's cool I'll make, make them wait till
later.”
Baker: “Alright and shit um...boom boom boom.”
U/M: “It ain't no big deal, they'll wait.”
Baker: “Alright I hear ya.”
U/M: “I'll give 'em, I'll give this ounce I have right now to hold them
over.”
Baker: “Alright, that's cool.”
U/M: “Alright brother.”
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Baker: “Alright.”
U/M: “Late.”
Summary of calls
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that the above voice calls are regarding a consummated drug transaction
between Baker and the unknown male “John Wayne.” It is also the affiants’
opinion that Baker received the drugs he sold to “John Wayne” from Joshua
Quiles at 586 Sanger Street, Philadelphia.
JHAMIR WINANS AKA “MIRR” AKA “MIRR.21”:
38-2 E.D. 2022, 38-3 E.D. 2022, & 38-7 E.D.
2022 The Honorable Judge Megan McCarthy King of the Pennsylvania Superior
Court signed Docket 38-2 E.D. 2022 (Issued on Thursday, January 27, 2022
and extended for 30-days on February 25, 2022) related to phone number 267-
804-6023, Docket 38-3 E.D. 2022 (Issued on Thursday, January 27, 2022)
related to Instagram account Mirr.21, and Docket 38-7 E.D. 2022 (Issued on
Friday, February 16, 2022) related to phone number 215-275-6435, utilized by
Jhamir Winans. It should be noted that Winans’ Instagram account Mirr.21 was
deleted/deactivated by Winans and no interceptions were made. Based on
communications intercepted from Winans’ phone numbers, both numbers were
identified as being used by him in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities.
During the court ordered interceptions and surveillance of Jhamir Winans,
the following sub-dealers and/or customers were identified:
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SUB-DEALERS/CUSTOMERS
Jeffrey Ancell: Methamphetamine and fentanyl subdealer of Winans
operating out of Clarksburg, West Virginia
Richard Quarles Jr.: Self-proclaimed “driver” in Winans’ crew traveling
via vehicle to multiple locations and states
Male: Believed to be heroin/fentanyl sub-dealer of Winans operating out
of Philadelphia
The following sections provide more details as to the intercepted
conversations regarding Winans’ criminal activities.
CALL #4 ON DOCKET 38-2-E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 27, 2022, AT 5:42PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 215-900-3692 TO 267-804-6023, A
PHONE USED BY JAHMIR WINANS
00:44 – 00:55
U/M: “Mirr?”
Winans: “Huh?”
U/M: “You gonna be around... you gonna be free around noon?”
Winans: “My haircut I/A.”
U/M: “I be asking I ain’t questioning I/A haircut for me any way
though.”
CALL #26 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 30, 2022, AT 9:45 AM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 267-303-2329 TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE
USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
04:48 – 05:27
U/F: "But you remember yesterday on the phone she tried to say that the
five hundred deposit was for the background deposits and all that.
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But she didn’t tell us that though, she told us that the five hundred
dollars would have went towards your first months."
Winans: "Security deposit."
U/F: "Rent if you had to pay for that."
Winans: "Oh yeah she did say that, naw you right she did say that."
U/F: "See that’s not my fault though Jhamir."
Winans: "Naw she did say that, but that still, alright actually if that do, alright
well you probably, I aint gonna lie to you, you probably gotta go up
there and tell her like listen like I did it but someone misinformed
me like. She told me this, and she told me I wasn’t, she said if I, tell
em like she said my credit was good enough I wouldn’t have to pay
no move in, like to move in first month rent. I would have to pay the
following month."
In the above excerpts from voice calls on January 27 and January 30,
2022, Winans is called “Mirr,” Winans’ nickname, and “Jhamir.” It is your
affiants’ opinion that this further shows that Winans is the user of phone number
267-804-6023.
DEACTIVATION OF WINANS’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
CALL #12 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 28, 2022 AT 3:45PM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-650-3139, A PHONE SUBSCRIBED TO AND
BELIEVED TO BE USED BY ZYAIRA MACKLIN, FROM 267-804-6023, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS SUPPORTED BY CALL #16 ON DOCKET
38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 28, 2022 AT 5:08PM AN OUTGOING CALL TO
678-702-1138, BEING USED VIA THREE-WAY CALL WITH AN INMATE IN
THE PHILADELPHIA PRISON SYSTEMS, DENZELL PAYNE AKA “LEEK,”
FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
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02:57 – 03:04 – Call #12
Winans: “Well I deleted my Instagram, so I can’t even text anyone on
Instagram.”
04:38 – 05:38 – Call #16
Leek: “I said, I said, just don’t trust, I said just don’t trust, I said like I was
telling yall before, like just be careful on shit, don’t trust nobody.
Don’t put your number out on Instagram.”
Winans: “Right.”
Leek: “That’s how they said they got my jawn.”
Winans: “Right.”
Leek: “Somebody ask you for they number, you ask them for they number,
cause when you put it on the jawn, they automatically have it and
then they got proof, that that’s how they said they got me, they got
proof that’s my number cause I gave it to 26 people on Instagram,
and they was in my jawn, and then, you know, it’s like then they
can’t crack it, but they all on the media and shit with it like they...”
Winans: “Right.”
Leek: “They not, they not on, like you know how people be like oh they
watching, they...”
Winans: “Right.”
Leek: “They actually on our page, in our DMs, on our shit, in the close
friends, like they not just watching, they in it.”
Winans: “Yeah.”
Leek: “But they don’t really like, they don’t really got shit, they just got
alot of hearsay, a lot of messages.”
Winans: “Right.”
Through review of Instagram Posts and Stories on account, Mirr.21, that
depicted photos and videos of Jhamir Winans and his known associates,
Detectives determined Winans was the user this Instagram account. On January
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28, 2022, an open-source check of Instagram account, Mirr.21, was conducted
which showed that the account no longer existed. It is your affiants’ opinion that
Winans deleted or deactivated his Instagram account possibly as a result of one
of Winans’ associates, Denzell Payne, being investigated and prosecuted by law
enforcement with the use of records obtained from his Instagram account. This
change in communications by deactivating Winans’ Instagram account coupled
with Baker changing his phone number the day after Chase Smith was arrested
shows that this drug trafficking organization changes their communication
methods to make it more difficult for the communications to be intercepted and
for law enforcement to successfully investigate and prosecute them.
CALLS #23 AND 24 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 29, 2022,
BETWEEN 3:42PM AND 4:14PM, INCOMING PHONE CALLS BETWEEN 215-
960-1920, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH MILES WILSON, AND 267-804-
6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
00:00 – 00:15 – Call #23
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “Wa-alaikum-salaam.”
U/M: “I’m like. It say twenty-four minutes away now bro. Is that
like?”
Winans: “Aight.”
U/M: “In Malvern?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Aight, aight, I know where that’s at.”
Winans: “Aight.”
00:00 – 00:18 – Call #24
Winans: “Yo.”
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U/M: “Yo, yo is it near some uh uh say Service King.”
Winans: “It’s shit like, it’s like a Home Depot or something. Shit like that right
there. You can go anywhere right there. I’m about to be there, right
there, right now.”
U/M: “Aight, I’m right here next to Cube Smart.”
Winans: “Aight.”
U/M: “Instead of the Home Depot.”
Winans: “Aight.”
In the above two voice calls between Winans and an unknown male, the
unknown male called Winans and told him that he’s twenty-four (24) minutes
away from Malvern. In the follow-up phone call, Winans told the unknown male
that it’s near a “Home Depot” and the unknown male told Winans that he’s near
the Cube Smart. Winans stated that the unknown male “can go anywhere right
here.”
A check through Google maps showed that there is a Home Depot, Service
King, and Cube Smart near Route 202 and Business Route 30 in Malvern,
Chester County, PA. This area is approximately 3.1 miles from Winans’ luxury
apartment at Hanover Exton Square, 181 N. Pottstown Pike, Exton, PA 19341.
Through their training, knowledge, and experience in drug investigations,
your affiants know that:
Drug dealers typically like to meet their drug customers in public
locations, such as streets, train stations, and parking lots. These types of
drug deals happen in public places that are not too far away from other
people, as remote locations can put the dealers and customers at risk of
being robbed or worse. Remote locations, like empty streets, also can draw
the attention of law enforcement.
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Drug dealers typically like to meet their drug customers close to their
residences in areas that they are familiar with and where they feel
comfortable. However, the drug dealers sometimes try to maintain a sense
of anonymity by not allowing their drug customers from knowing too much
about them. This provides the drug dealer with a sense of protection from
law enforcement in case the drug customer was to be arrested. It also
shields the drug dealer from rival drug dealers who might try to rob them
if the rival drug dealers were to learn of their residences.
The meeting location in the above voice call between Winans and the
unknown male was in a public place close to Winans’ residence and “anywhere
near” the Home Depot in Malvern as opposed to a specific business or other
location that would suggest their meeting had a non-illicit purpose. It is therefore
your affiants’ opinion that this discussed meeting between Winans and the
unknown male was consistent with a drug transaction.
CALL #32 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 30, 2022, AT 11:48
PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-275-3442 TO 267-804-6023, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yizzo, as-salamu alaykum.”
Winans: “Wa-alaikum-salaam.”
U/M: “My bad it’s a little late and all, but I just got a call if uh you could
bring me down two. I/A I’m jealous.”
Winans: “I’m bro, I’m literally like ten minutes away from my crib. I would
have to go all the way to the crib where it’s at and grab it. That’s the
only I know you don’t hear that shit, I ain’t even going to lie to you
about it. But I’ll bring it tomorrow, if they still need it like early in
the morning but.”
U/M: “Alright, um, alright.”
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Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright, well I appreciate you any way, alright I’ll hit you and let you
know if it’s still I/A in the morning.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright bro.”
Winans: “Alright let me, matter of fact let me, I can call my man, matter of
fact let me call my man real quick and see if he feel like doing it.”
U/M: “Alright for sure.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the facts and circumstances of this investigation your affiants
opine that the above conversation is in reference to a drug sale between Jhamir
Winans and an unknown male. While Winans tells the unknown male that he is
not available to drive to the city until the next morning, he also tells the male he
will call his “man” who may be able to facilitate the drug deal for him.
CALL #33 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON JANUARY 30, 2022, AT 11:52
PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-275-3442 TO 267-804-6023, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Where he, where he gotta come to?”
U/M: “Uh, downtown.”
Winans: “Where at cause?”
U/M: “Imma get the exact location.”
Winans: “He like, he, he down there.”
U/M: “Alright Imma get you the exact location right now and call you right
back.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations and the facts and circumstances of this investigation your affiants
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opine that the above conversation is in reference to a drug sale between Jhamir
Winans and an unknown male. This call is a follow up call to Call #32 where
Winans told an unknown male that his “man” would be able to conduct a drug
sale on his behalf. In this call, Winans tells the unknown male that his “man”
is already near the unknown male’s location and that he will send his exact
location so Winans can provide it to his “man.” While the communication
between Winans and his “man” or the text message where the unknown male
sent Winans his location were not intercepted, your affiants believe that this is
possibly because Winans and the other individuals involved use iPhones to
communicate. Apple iPhone users who communicate via text message with each
other do so over an encrypted Apple messaging service that is not transmitted to
the user’s phone carrier and therefore is not intercepted as part of the wiretap.
CALLS #39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 63, 67, 68, 69 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022
BETWEEN JANUARY 31, 2022, AT 06:26 PM AND FEBRUARY 1, 2022,
BETWEEN 1:32PM AND 1:52PM, INCOMING/OUTGOING PHONE CALLS AND
A TEXT MESSAGE BETWEEN 215-901-3011 AND 267-804-6023, A PHONE
USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
CALL #39
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yo where you had want me to meet you at?”
U/M: “You tell me, you want to meet at uh right there at uh Broad and
Clearfield?”
Winans: “That’s cool.”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “Yeah that’s cool, Imma call you tonight I/A fifteen minutes away
I/A minute.”
U/M: “Alright, Imma see you then.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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CALL #41
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo what’s up family, yup.”
Winans: “Yea, I’m coming over to see you now.”
U/M: “I/A you coming by I/A.”
Winans: “Uhh, I’ll be there in like 20, 20, yeah 20, 20 minutes.”
U/M: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cause um I’m putting my stamp on it uh,
I/A he’s mad cause I turned him down on something else.”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “Ya know what I mean?”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “Cause that shit didn’t have no smell or nothing, yea hear me?”
Winans: “Right, yeah.”
U/M: “Nothing, and I said yeah naw we ain’t, you, don’t even do that. So I
sent around and uh homie came back with something good today.
But, I said if I could cut em, cut you know, cut more people out, I
just cut him out and just shift him, shift him over to you, you know
what I mean?”
Winans: “Right, yeah.”
U/M: “You know what I’m saying, right?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause that’s my family but it he, he, he be having
some, you know sometimes that shit be like, you be like ohh...”
Winans: “Right, right, right.”
U/M: “Alright so, so I see you in about 20, 20 minutes.”
Winans: “Alright, yeah.”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “Yeah, Imma call you in like ten.”
U/M: “Alright, he said long as you put your stamp on it, I’m cool with
it.”
Winans: “Right, yeah.”
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U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Yeah, I got you.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
CALL #42
Winans: “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
U/M: “Alright let me get going I/A alright.”
Winans: “Alright, you said Broad and Clearfield right...huh... you hear
me?”
CALL #43
U/M: “Yoo.”
Winans: “I’m here, I’m at...”
U/M: “I’m at, I’m, I’m, I’m right here man.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “I’m sitting outside the parking lot, the gas station lot, I’m inside the
gas station lot.”
Winans: “Huh?”
U/M: “You know where I’m talking about?”
Winans: “Alright I’m about to come over there.”
U/M: “Yeah that’s where I’m at...where you at?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah, I, I can come over there, you want something from right here?
I’m gonna get something to drink...alright, I can come over there, it
don’t make a difference to me.”
Winans: “I’m good.”
U/M: “Alright, let me get, you want something out of this store to drink.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “No I’m good.”
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CALL #44
Winans: “Hello.”
U/M: “Yeah you want your baby, you want your baby uh nipple back.”
(Laughing)
Winans: “Oh i forget I/A naw.”
U/M: “I got it, I got it.”
Winans: “No, I don’t, no I don’t need that, I don’t need that”
U/M: “No, I know, alright so you say me and you hook up tomorrow
right?”
Winans: “Yeah yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah alright, alright, I’ll talk to you tomorrow sometime.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/W: “Take care.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “You hear me?”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #63
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo what’s up man?”
Winans: “What’s up?”
U/M: “What time you ah coming out?”
Winans: “I might come out right now, I might go to my mom house.”
U/M: “Yea, where, where you want me to um you know...”
Winans: “I/A You want, you want, you want to meet meet me there?”
U/M: “Where’s that?”
Winans: “My mom house.”
U/M: “No, I don’t. You know. I don’t want your mom to know my business,
you know what I mean?”
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Winans: “Alright, um, um, bah, Alright I’m just call you soon as I get down
there then.”
U/M: “Yea, real shit…the other I/A the other. How was the other? I/A”
Winans: “Huh?”
U/M: “You said it was good?”
Winans: “What?”
U/M: “You know the candy?”
Winans: “Oh yea yea yea yea that’s that is like that’s yea like this right now
like is probably our the best I seen.”
U/M: “Yeaow I don’t know the numbers cause like I said you know I can
probably just say to you down there I/A you know what I mean make
that happen.”
Winans: “Right, right.”
U/M: “You know.”
Winans: “Right, right. Alright when ah when I see you I’ll talk to you about
it.”
U/M: “Yea, um cause I want to move these out you know what I mean?”
Winans: “Say again?”
U/M: “I was gonna move they out, you know these out ah?”
Winans: “Right, yea I’m about to um, yea um I’m about to come down there
in a little while. I’m about to come down there. You in the house?”
U/M: “Yea.”
Winans: “Yea, well I got, I got to come down there anyway cause I got to go to
Germantown, so I just, if you, if you gonna be down there...”
U/M: “Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea...”
Winans: “Alright Imma gonna call you when I get down there then.”
U/M: “OK I’ll be here for ya.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
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CALL #67
Winans: “I’m Down Here”
CALL #68
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yea, I’m just dropping your mom off the crib S/L, I ran to Home
Depot to umm..fucking Aquill put a little hole in the wall, so I’m
going to get some puddy.”
Winans: “Ard.”
U/M: “Where you at though?”
Winans: “Ard, how long is it going to be? S/L I’m down here, about to
come on 9th street with.”
U/M: “Where you at now? On 9th street?”
Winans: “I’m about to be on 9th street.”
U/M: “On 9th Street?”
Winans: “Yea, I’m bout to, I’m tryna to go back to”
U/M: “Ard, I could come down here, I could come down there. I could
come back up here, alright?”
Winans: “How long you said you going to be though? Cuz I’m tryna go back
in the house, I got a headache.”
U/M: “I’ll be about bout 10 minutes, ard? 10 minutes.”
Winans: “Ard.”
U/M: “Ard, you on 9th street? Down our way, right?”
Winans: “Yea, Yea. I could meet anywhere now. I could meet you anywhere
down there, I could meet you like in, I ain’t even got to meet you on
9th street, I could meet you on 8th street, I could meet you over
there, its up to you? I’m not..(I/A sound).”
U/M: “Yea, I’ll meet you I/A sound.”
Winans: “I might go meet somebody S/L, I’m bout to meet somebody. Just
call me when you get down here, cuz I’m about to meet somebody
I/A, I aint sitting no I/A.”
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U/M: “Yea, Yea, Yea, I mean bout S/L give me bout 10 minutes. I just, I
just left your mom. Just dropped her off.”
U/M: “Ard.”
Winans: “Ard.”
U/M: “Ard, I’ll see you in a few.”
CALL #69
Winans: “Hello.”
U/M: “Yeah, I’m down here I/A.”
Winans: “Where you uh alright I’m about uh I’m on Second Street I’m about
to uh go to Ninth Street and get me some money and then I/A uh
are you coming from I/A.”
U/M: “No Man, you ain’t gotta come I/A, I could have meet you
there on Second Street if you wanted shit you know what I
mean.”
Winans: “I’m not paying, I’m not paying I/A I’m like, I’m like coming
down Lehigh.”
U/M: “Alright, I’m on Lehigh too you know what I mean but uh.”
Winans: “Let me uh.”
U/M: “I’m right on Seventh and Lehigh.”
Winans: “You need me to meet you right there?”
U/M: “Yeah, alright, yeah.”
Winans: “Alright what side of the street you on?”
U/M: “I’m on the side you know on the side where the Chinese jawn at
across the street.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “On Seventh and Lehigh you know where that little poppy store used
to be at on the corner? Where DJ?”
Winans: “I/A”
U/M: “Live at where I/A at.”
Winans: “Uh huh alright alright I’m on I/A.”
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U/M: “Alright.”
Based on the above voice calls and text message, it is your affiants’ opinion
that Winans is setting up a drug transaction(s) with the unknown male. In Call
#39, they setup a meeting location (“Broad and Clearfield”), which is believed by
your affiants to be the intersection of N. Broad Street and W. Clearfield Street in
Philadelphia. The next couple of voice calls confirmed the meeting location, how
far away in minutes the parties were, and details where the unknown male is
parked (parking lot of the gas station). Your affiants know through their training,
knowledge, and experience in drug investigations that these voice calls are a
normal series of calls between a drug trafficker and a drug customer/sub-dealer.
In Call #44, Winans and the unknown male agree to meet the next day. In
Call #63, the unknown male asked Winans whether the “candy” was good.
Winans responded that it was. Your affiants know through their training,
knowledge, and experience that “candy” is a common slang term for both
methamphetamine and/or ecstasy. In Call #67, Winans texted that he was
“down here,” believed to reference that Winans was in Philadelphia in the area
where he was meeting the unknown male. Based on these series of voice calls
and text message and the affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that these conversations between Winans and the unknown male
involved a drug transaction.
CALL #53 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022, AT 11:38AM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-275-3442, A PHONE NUMBER ASSOCIATED
WITH BASIL GRANT, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “As-salamu alaykum.”
Winans: “Wa alaykumu s-salam. My fault. What’s wrong?”
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U/M: “What’s up baby bro, you alright?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright. When you get up and active, I got some activity for us. You
seen my text message?”
Winans: “Huh?”
U/M: “You seen the text I sent you?”
Winans: “Unum I didn’t look yet.”
U/M: “Alright. Alright. It’s in there.”
Winans: “Uhhuh.”
U/M: “Electric jawn.” (Laughing) “That electric Porsche. All that bro.”
Winans: “I can’t even work. I/A.”
U/M: “It’s uh. It’s uh for one and a half. I, I’mma get two though.”
Winans: “I’mma um. I. You wanted to meet my folks? Because he want to go
out. I ain’t got no I/A.”
U/M: “Alright, bet. You think he will bring it out to me?”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “What you want? You want me to come right now?”
U/M: “Yeah, I’m about to call and see where my player is at. And then.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Then I can give you the location.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright, good lookin bro.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above conversation between Winans and an unidentified male are
related to an illegal drug sale. Specifically, the unidentified male wants “two” of
an unspecified drug, one and a half of which he will immediately resell. Your
affiants know that Winans is regularly involved in the sale of pound quantities
of both methamphetamine and marijuana; therefore, it is their opinion that the
unidentified male is buying two pounds of the unspecified drug from Winans.
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CALLS #54, 56, 57, 58 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022,
BETWEEN 11:40AM and 11:45AM, OUTGOING/INCOMING PHONE CALLS
BETWEEN 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS AND 215-
399-8274
CALL #54
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo um, that, that um wap still around?”
Winans: “Umhum.”
U/M: “Alright cause ol’ head just called me fuckin I/A alright but you
asleep.”
Winans: “Yea.”
U/M: “Alright, I about, I want to call him back let him know it around
see what he want to do.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #56
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo, yeah he said he about to jump in the shower and shit, said
he would be down in like an hour hour hour.”
Winans: “Alright, I’ll get dressed.”
U/M: “Alright bud, me too. He said he wanted a bean again.”
Winans: “Hmm Hmm.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #57
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yo ask him, do, does it, ask him do he do he do he care if it’s loose
or not.”
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CALL #58
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “You hear me?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Ask him if he cares if it’s loose or not.”
U/M: “I’m about to call him right now.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above series of calls is related to the sale of drugs, specifically marijuana,
by Jhamir Winans to an unknown male. In the calls the unknown male asks if
“WAP” is still around. Your affiants know that WAP is a strain of marijuana and
that purchasers of marijuana often look for particular brands or strains, similar
to looking for a particular flavor or variety of any other consumable product.
CALL #77 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022, FEBRUARY 2, 2022, AT 12:45PM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-507-8528, A PHONE SUBSCRIBED TO ALBERT
WILSON, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “Yo broski. As-salamu-alaykum.”
Winans: “Wa-alaikum-salaam.”
U/M: “Uh, what do. Uh, yo yo. Whatchu think about uh. I know uh a
little cousin Sue. Basically I got a situation where it go a CO I/A,
you feel me?”
Winans: “Uh huh.”
U/M: “Where as though we can make some money like. Like uh, folks
already talked to him and all that, you feel me? And everything.
But I know that the way that uh the way that jail shit is setup, Sue
is like basically in the hole so he.”
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Winans: “Yeah, yeah he, yeah he can’t bring nothing into because he in
whatever. He in like super max. I/A.”
U/M: “Yup.”
Winans: “He didn’t do nothing it’s just. I/A.”
U/M: “Yup, yup, yeah I already know. That’s uh, you know uh my player
was just up there. He was up there with Sue and all that. Was
talking to Sue and all that telling that uh telling Sue that uh he my
cousin.”
Winans: “Uh huh.”
U/M: (Laughing) “Yeah, he crazy as shit!”
Winans: “I mean, if they can figures something out, then yeah it would be
cool but.”
U/M: “Naw, naw. That’s what I am saying. If you, if you talk to bro and
just run that shit through him. Because I ain’t gonna lie, folks just
keep. Folks just keep hitting me up like. Bro you gotta send me the
name, you feel me? Because I got the shit to get it to him. You feel
me, like the subios, and all that shit, you feel me?”
Winans: “Alright. I/A.”
U/M: “And uh, and I was going to send him like uh probably like twenty
pages, you feel me?”
Winans: “Uh huh.”
U/M: “So, but uh I’m tryin see like. You know, I ain’t gonna lie. The way
how. I was talking to a lot of niggers in there. They uh, they
definitely respect little bro hand, you feel me?”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “I’m trying to see how he can maneuver, you feel me? Unless
somebody run a V for him. But everything go through him, you feel
me?”
Winans: “Yeah. Yeah, We good. I/A. When he call me, I’mma call. When he
call me, I’mma see what’s up.”
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U/M: “Alright, uh what’s his name though. C, like don’t like try to give
him that ice shit rocky, because I been spinning folks for three
days, you feel me? Like the percs are ready and all that, you feel
me?”
Winans: “I/A. Just, just like. Bro tell him, just go give it to him bro. Just
give him. Give him, like.”
U/M: “Alright, uh what’s her name. Uh, uh send me, send me his info so
I can uh. So I can get at so they know where you feel me? I makin
a right or a left? A right, right?”
Winans: “I/A. What the fuck is his number? It’s like.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “What the fuck is his number? I’m about to find his number and
text it to you. I know his first and last name. You know if you need
a PP number?”
U/M: “Yeah, I need the PP, and there was something else I needed, uh. I
don’t know.”
Winans: “I/A”
U/M: “That was the main, that was the main part oh. What’s his name. I
was thinking about putting. I’m gonna get I/A involved, but I don’t.
You feel me?”
Winans: “I mean, it’s up to you. I don’t.”
U/M: “That’s what I’m saying. But I ain’t gonna lie, I would rather little
bro, little bro uh. Little bro run a situation. The feds fuck around
grab little I mean other little bro any given time, you feel me?”
Winans: “Right.”
U/M: “Yeah so like that shit like. I don’t know.”
Winans: “Yeah, I don’t know. I’m about to send you his number and shit
right now, for real. I/A fuck it just give that shit to him.”
U/M: “Alright, say no more. I’mma uh…”
Winans: “I/A on your cousin I/A, you know what I mean? And then, yeah.”
U/M: “Alright, say no more, say no more, say no more.”
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Winans: “Alright.”
During the above voice call, there are references to “CO,” “jail,” “PP,”
“subios,” and “twenty pages.” Your affiants believe that Winans and the unknown
male are speaking in coded language to try to disguise their conversation. Based
on the affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, they believe the code
language refers to the following:
CO: Corrections Officer
PP: Common term for the inmate number assigned to inmates in the
Philadelphia Prison System
Subios: Slang term for Suboxone
Your affiants’ also know that Suboxone can be smuggled into prisons. One
common smuggling method of Suboxone into prisons is to soak paper in liquid
Suboxone and then mail it to inmates. The liquid Suboxone can be mixed with
ink or crayon wax and delivered as handwritten mail or children’s drawings. It
is therefore, your affiants’ opinion that the above voice call is a discussion about
the smuggling of contraband into a prison.
CALL #96 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 3, 2022, AT 9:36 AM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-595-5244, A PHONE SUBSCRIBED
TO TYREE KEYS, TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Hello?”
U/M: “What’s goin on ya’ll?”
Winans: “What’s up?”
U/M: “Hey, uh, you still around with the QP’s?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright, uh, what was the number on them jawns again?”
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Winans: “I don’t even know what, huh. I don’t even know what I charge on
one of them.”
U/M: “Say that again?”
Winans: “I don’t even remember what I charge.”
U/M: “I think you said three, and eleven for the whole jawn.”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright, um. Um, just wanted to make sure you was around. I’m
gettin my uh. I’m gonna call you probably in another half to an
hour and slide up on you.”
Winans: “You probably gonna have to me know ASAP, cuz I’m gonna be
leavin out the house I/A.”
U/M: “Say that again.”
Winans: “I say yeah, you definitely gonna have to let me know cuz I’m
gonna be leavin out the house I/A. So I know what to bring out
with me.”
U/M: “Alright, cool. Uh, same flavors?”
Winans: “Yeah, yeah.”
U/M: “Alright, cool. Let me hit you up in a second.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, experience with drug investigations
and the facts and circumstances of this investigation, your affiants opine that
the phone call transcribed above is in related to a drug deal. Specifically, an
unknown male is asking if quarter pounds of a drug believed to be marijuana is
around. Winans says yes and the male asks about price, but Winans is unsure.
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CALL #98 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 3, 2022, AT 4:19PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-850-3139, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
USED BY ZYAIRA MACKLIN, TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
1:52 - 3:10
Winans: "Oh shit like I had to jump up like oh shit…I/A…now imagine that
was a cop or a cop was in like right there somewhere they’d be like
what the fuck... pull me over now I’m...well I’m I/A talking to
him...so I get out now I’m locked up. You not payin no fucking
seven hundred and fifty five dollar bail...so shut the...like shut
up...I/A...Imma be doin S/L whatever...you not payin no fuckin
seventy five...you got seventy five dollars to go pay for bail? If that’s
it...i don’t even know if they got ten percent down there lets say
they got ten percent you got seventy five dollars to pay for my
bail?"
Macklin: "I’ma get it...I/A."
Winans: "S/L I’m not...no all that...not i’ma try and go get it."
Macklin: "But you...like you...like what’s the...okay though...like...alright
well…"
Winans: "Like you really not tryin to understand where I’m coming from you
just imma try and go get it like what nobody S/L not tryin to go get
it alright there’s a chance you might go S/L know somebody to go
get it. I’m still sittin in jail no S/L can’t deal with her all because I
could have S/L remained where I was at I/A...and S/L found myself
together alright I’m home. I/A very happy so she don’t think
whatever she wanna think like..that is...that is corny isn’t it? I might
even say that I be doin this every night but S/L you don’t even tell
me like when I pull outside late or...yeah...when I’m running around
wit...yeah...and then like I might be done at uhh 2 o’ clock...like
uhh...yeah I’ve been running around all day I’m about to sit down
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for a fuckin hour just to relax. I don’t know like...I don’t
know...like...you ain’t gonna get it cuz you ain’t...all you know is
yourself and S/L your friends."
Your affiants, based on their training, knowledge, and experience, opine
that the above voice call between Winans and Zyaira Macklin is related to
Macklin wanting Winans to come home at night. Winans explained during the
call that sometimes at night he is tired and does not want to fall asleep behind
the wheel for fear of interacting with law enforcement. If he was arrested, Winans
said that Macklin would have to post bail of $750,000. Your affiants find this
relevant as through their training, knowledge, and experience, they opine that
Winans is showing a consciousness of guilt, indicating that if he were to
encounter the police, they would arrest him, and his bail would be set very high
as a result.
CALLS #238, 242, 243, AND 245 ON 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 5, 2022,
BETWEEN 11:25AM AND 3:01PM, INCOMING/OUTGOING PHONE CALLS
FROM/TO 215-605-7619, A PHONE SUBSCRIBED TO KHALIL LSOM,
TO/FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
CALL #238
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yo I/A Yeah, uh, you told them 300 right?”
U/M: “Huh?”
Winans: “Bro you know it’s 300.”
U/M: “You said it’s 300?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright and I/A (possibly Pay) is gonna come meet em, cause
I’m I/A till tomorrow. So IA (possibly pay) is gonna bring it
to.”
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U/M: “300, yeah 300 (in background to different party). He said
like a hour at best.”
Winans: “Alright.”
CALL #242
U/M: "I/A"
Winans: "Yo."
U/M: "Hey yo bro he said I/A grab it for two fifty."
Winans: "Huh?"
U/M: "He said can he grab it for two fifty."
Winans: "Yeah."
U/M: "Ahright bro."
Winans: "I’m about to grab it right now."
U/M: "Ahright."
Winans: "I’m ah have to get, I’m ah have to."
U/M: "Wait, huh?"
Winans: "I said yeah I’m about to uh, I’m going to my crib and grab
it right now."
U/M: "Ahright say no more."
Winans: "Ahright."
U/M: “Ah.”
CALL #243
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Naw we gotta do 350 cause I gotta pay him to come up here, I gotta
give him the bread to come up here to do the shit, I just thought
about that shit. I/A if I do it for 250 I don’t want to still pay him
like, whatever, I’m losing, I aint gonna.”
U/M: “Right, facts, I’m about to call him.”
Winans: “I/A”
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U/M: “Yeah, facts, well listen, right, well listen, right, cause I, cause I
about to say if he don’t do 350 I’m gonna try to send him close to
you. Up there or something.”
Winans: “I/A. Alright just let me know, let me know.”
CALL #245
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yo, he already here that’s what I’m saying bro.”
U/M: “Oh shit hold on, alright than, okay huh.”
Winans: “How do you wanna… cause right now nigger talking bout,
okay hold on he’s right here, here.”
(Winans speaking to U/M in the background)
Winans: “Cause the nigger I/A only got 250, so I’m trying to think
how the fuck.”
U/M2: “S/L where it supposed to be?”
Winans: “300, but I, I was I/A basically.”
U/M2: “Well I, I don’t care man I/A so he got it where it’s supposed to be
at right.”
Winans: “What’s that?”
U/M2: “I/A”
Winans: “I’m trying to think, no I’m trying to think.”
U/M2: “I/A”
(Child yelling in background)
Winans: “What? That’s what I’m saying I/A um I, I I/A he’s on his
way up I/A guys talk it out, he’s on his way up there.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “He’s coming to you to pick up.”
U/M: “Alright.”
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SUMMARY
Based on their training, knowledge, experience, your affiants opine that
the above voice calls are related to the negotiation of the pricing during a drug
deal.
CALL #240 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 5, 2022, AT
11:45AM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-507-8528, A PHONE
SUBSCRIBED TO ALBERT WILSON, TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS
5:00 – 5:59
Winans: “But it sound like I got something, uh, stronger coming.”
U/M: “I’m about to, I’m about to just tell her she said she want 3-4 jawns,
3-4 I/A, Imma just tell her, uh.”
Winans: “They used to the drink shit though, I mean that’s the only thing.”
U/M: “What you say?”
Winans: “They used to the drink, know what I mean? Naw that aint, I aint, I
don’t know where they got that from, I/A aint no drink or nothing.”
U/M: “Yeah so you think she gonna be on some bitch ass shit about it?”
Winans: “I don’t know, you just gotta see, but I got something better coming,
uh, this week, so, if not, I know I/A…you just let me know.”
U/M: “Alright say no more, Imma uh, what ya name, Imma let her, Imma
let her get, uh, Imma let her uh, Imma let her, what’s her name, uh,
taste that shit and see whats going on. But Imma tell her like, yeah,
since I told yall I was gonna give you a samp any way, Imma just
give you two G’s for the price of 3, ya feel me?”
Winans: “Alright bro just let me know.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Ya hear me? Yo.”
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Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is your
opinion that the above voice call is a discussion regarding selling three (3) “g’s”
for the price of two (2). Your affiants know through their training, knowledge,
and experience in drug investigations that “g” is common drug slang for a gram,
which is a common weight used during the sale and purchase of drugs. Winans
also stated during the call that he had something better coming in this week.
Your affiants believe that Winans is talking about getting better product, like
illegal drugs, for sale during the week.
SURVEILLANCE ON FEBRUARY 8, 2022 – JHAMIR
WINANS
On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, surveillance officers were dispatched to
the area of his girlfriend’s (Zyaira Macklin) residence, located at 181 N. Pottstown
Pike, Apartment 1048, Exton, Pennsylvania. At approximately 1:15PM, Sgt.
Faherty observed a black Mercedes Pennsylvania Registration LTW-4611 parked
at the apartment complex in space 1045. This vehicle was associated to both
Macklin and Winans. A record check through the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation revealed the Mercedes Benz is registered to Rasheen K. Corey-
Yates at 4621 Parrish Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At approximately 6:37PM, Detective Stanley observed the black Mercedes
Benz S550, Pennsylvania Registration LTW-4611, parked in front of 2114
Bellevue Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At approximately 8:24PM, Detective Fuentes observed Winans’ vehicle, the
black Mercedes Benz, on the move towards 21st Street. At the time, the vehicle
was being followed by a red Chevrolet SUV, Pennsylvania Registration LTY-2848.
A record check through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation revealed
the red Chevrolet SUV was registered to Lee Pointer at 5231 Oxford Avenue,
Apartment A1, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Surveillance followed Winans in the Mercedes Benz and the unknown
person in the Chevrolet to the intersection of Seltzer and 15th Streets in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They arrived at this location at approximately
8:30PM. There were more than five (5) people standing, and multiple vehicles
associated to this group in the street. At approximately 8:44PM, Detective
Daywalt observed a male go to the rear of Winans’ vehicle. This male obtained a
bag from the trunk, put it under his arm, and walked away. During this time,
there were several people from the group riding 4-wheelers and dirt bikes in the
area.
At approximately 9:23PM, Detective Daywalt observed the Mercedes Benz,
Pennsylvania Registration LTW-4611, and the red Chevrolet SUV, Pennsylvania
Registration LTY-2848, leaving the area, northbound on Broad Street. At this
time, they were not followed by surveillance. At approximately 9:25PM, Detective
Fuentes observed the Mercedes Benz and red Chevrolet SUV pull into a parking
lot at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Broad Street. A short time later,
Detective Fuentes observed a white Dodge Charger, Virginia Registration (paper
tag) 393021, pull into the parking lot and meet with Winans and the occupant(s)
of the red Chevrolet SUV. A record check did not reveal any results for owner
information for the white Dodge Charger. Also present in this parking lot at the
time were several 4-wheelers and dirt bikes, as well as one (1) Philadelphia patrol
car. It appeared the group was filming their activities in the parking lot, possibly
for a music video. Visual surveillance was not maintained on Winans.
At approximately 11:43PM, the investigators advised surveillance that
Winans’ cellular phone was communicating with a cell tower in the area of
Germantown Pike and Swede Road, East Norriton Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania. At approximately 11:57PM, Detective Daywalt located
Winans’ Mercedes Benz, Pennsylvania Registration LTW-4611, and the red
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Chevrolet SUV, Pennsylvania Registration LTY-2848, in the parking lot of Our
Town Alley, 2912 Swede Road, East Norriton.
Detective Fuentes went inside Our Town Alley and observed Winans and
several of his associates bowling. Detective Fuentes took photographs of these
individuals for identification purposes. One of the individuals with Winans was
identified by Detective Fuentes as Braheem Jenrette (DOB: 07-28-1995), aka
Berkstreet Osama, a known member of the Homicide Camp gang in which
Winans also belongs.
INTERCEPTED CALLS RELATED TO WINANS’
PACKAGES
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that the following intercepted calls give additional information to Jhamir
Winans receiving packages, suspected to contain methamphetamine, shipped to
him.
February 11, 2022 – (Winans/Williams)
CALL #323 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 11:00
AM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-822-4618, A NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH
KYREE WILLIAMS, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS. THE FOLLOWING IS A PORTION OF THIS PHONE CALL FROM
07:16 – 07:55
Winans: “One day she ended up finding out. She ended up asking about me,
and we ended up talking about it. She was like why are you trying
to be sneaky? Like she actually didn’t care. So then she started
letting me I/A. Then I’m like. She be letting me keep shit there
because the shit I got I can’t have around Zyaira especially when she
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was pregnant with her baby right now. So I’m like, and I don’t really
got nowhere else to put it. So, I’m like yeah. So I’m like, I was doing
that.”
U/M: “Shit.”
Winans: “And then I’m going to show you the message. Yeah, I/A telling Ree
like. Yo can you go get that jawn?”
U/M: “Yeah, I was about to say. Yeah I was about to, uh. My fault. I was
about to say. Shit, you can even throw me in there like.”
During the excerpt of the above call, Winans stated that he did not keep
“the shit” around Zyaira Macklin because she was pregnant. It is your affiants’
opinion that Winans was referring to something, like methamphetamine, that he
did not want to keep near his pregnant girlfriend or their baby.
February 11, 2022 – (Winans/Williams)
CALL #325 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 11:39
AM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-822-4618, A PHONE ASSOCIATED
WITH KYREE WILLIAMS, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
00:00:00 – 00:00:18
Winans: “Yo, alright look so I may do good. I said alright, I’m gonna
explain exactly how I feel and you don’t have to try and explain or
anything because my feelings won’t change the shit that happen
before your birthday hold on, my feelings won’t change alright, that
shit that happened.”
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00:01:21 – 00:02:08
Winans: “I/A but it wasn’t never consistent, it was an on and off thing. If I’m
be honest I’ve been sending, I’ve been, I’ve been using her, I’ve been
using her house for packages she the only S/L lady I got and I/A
messages and tracking, all my shit go there I don’t want it, I don’t
want it to but I don’t have nowhere else to send it and I got messages,
my man saying we got to switch it up and I even told him the same
thing. At, at first I was doing it without her knowing and we live up
there to so I was able, so I was able to if I so when I wasn’t able to I
was getting him to go get them I even got messages for that but she
ended up finding out and I, and didn’t care so yeah I started sending
and keeping shit there especially when… the type of shit it is, I can’t
take home and do what I gotta do because you pregnant now the
baby. Anything else I should add to that? Or take out?”
U/M: “Nah nah nah.”
In the above excerpt of the voice call between Winans and a male, believed
to be Kyree Williams, Winans was talking about his feelings and what he was
going to tell Zyaira Macklin after Macklin accused Winans of cheating. During
the call, Winans referred to another female saying that he was “using her house
for packages.” It is your affiants’ opinion that Winans was discussing receiving
packages at another female’s house and that Macklin was not happy about
Winans relationship with that female. Based on the facts of this investigation
and your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that
this conversation corroborates their belief that Winans was receiving packages
of controlled substances through shipping companies.
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February 11, 2022 – (Winans/Macklin)
CALL #351 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 2:34
PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-257-6272, A PHONE ASSOCIATED
WITH ZYAIRA MACKLIN, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
Winans: “Hold up. Hold up, I’m about to call my folks I/A.”
Macklin: “How long it gonna take you to get what you need to get?”
Winans: “Bro, I just told you.”
Macklin: “No, I’m saying for you to do everything. Because you talking about
you got mail in the air and shit.”
Winans: “Hold on. I’m about to. I’ll FaceTime you and show you. But I could
do that probably without her knowing. I would just have to be there
like when the delivery just happened. Like hurry up and go get it
before like she sees.”
Macklin: “What about Ree?”
Winans: “Ree don’t live there no more. I’m sending the photo now. One say
Sunday, and this one say. I/A. Oh shit, hold on, hold on. One say
Sunday, and this one say. Hold on, what the fuck? Oh they both say
Sunday. But this one. The other one was saying Tuesday, but now
they both saying Sunday now.”
Macklin: “Alright.”
Winans: “But I got you Ziara, I/A get my stuff. I/A.”
Macklin: “Alright.”
Based on this above call, it is the affiants’ opinion that Winans was
expecting the “mail in the air,” believed to be two packages containing a
controlled substance, to be delivered on Sunday, February 13, 2022. During later
voice calls, Winans updated the delivery date from Sunday to Monday to
Tuesday, February 15, 2022.
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February 13, 2022 – (Winans/Unknown male)
CALL #375 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 13, 2022, AT
4:14PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 215-399-8274, A PHONE
SUBSCRIBED TO KEVIN SHAW, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo Bro.”
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Ayo um no he just called me and asked me did um did you get any
feedback on that shit... like that shit like that’s the hammer?”
Winans: “What? That shit ain’t even come in yet. That shit come in tomorrow
morning but naw that shit- that shit gonna be that though like that
shit like guaranteed gonna be that like a thousand I/A.”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “Better than the first shit I gave you.”
U/M: “Alright bet no cuz he just called and said he gone, he gone, he gone
holla at us I/A.”
Winans: “Alright that’s perfect then. Yeah naw but yeah tell him that shit I/A
tell him it’s like, tell him like yo it’s gonna be the first I/A gonna be
perfect.”
U/M: “Alright but I’m I/A so you said that shit be here tomorrow
morning?”
Winans: “Yeah naw but don’t even tell him that. Just tell him like yeah
tomorrow morning. Be like he, be like he said he not even around
I/A tell him I already got it, got the feedback tell him but I’m not
around right now. Tell him I/A be around like tomorrow morning.”
U/M: “Alright Imma say, Imma say tomorrow afternoon if that’s cool,
I’mma say tomorrow afternoon.”
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Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
The above voice call between Winans and an unknown male discussed the
“shit [that did not] even come in yet.” Winans then went on to tell the unknown
male to tell “him,” believed by your affiants to be drug customer, that it’s going
to be perfect and that it will be ready in the morning. Based on their training,
knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that the above
conversation was Winans talking to one of his sub-dealers about receiving a
shipment of drugs and then distributing those drugs to their customers.
CALL #365 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 12, 2022, AT
04:07PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-858-2592 TO 267-804-
6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “Ugh he said, what’s it called again?"
Winans: “Mannitol”
U/M: “Mannitol. Oh shit that big ass...alright go head”
Winans: “Ard”
U/M: “S/L Yea, my fault.”
During the above voice call between Winans and an unknown male, the
male asked Winans what was “it” called again. Winans responded Mannitol.
Through your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, they know that
Mannitol is a common product used to cut drugs, such as cocaine. Cutting a
controlled substance, such as cocaine, is often used to expand the product and
increase the profit of drug traffickers. It is therefore, their opinion that this
conversation was related to the sale of a controlled substance.
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RAP VIDEO PRODUCTION – FEBRUARY 20, 2022
On Sunday, February 20, 2022, a call between Jhamir Winans and Albert
Wilson (Instagram account: LehighAve.AMB) was intercepted and Winans told
Wilson that he was going to pick up “shit for the video shoot.” When Wilson
asked what he would be picking up, Winans responded “the joints.”
CALL #608 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 20, 2022 AT
6:56PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-507-8528 FROM 267-804-
6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
1:00 – 1:05
Winans: “Yeah I know, I’mma run and go grab something real quick…
I’mma I’mma about to go get the shit for the video shoot.”
U/M: “What you about to go get?”
Winans: “The joints. Lemme call you right back though come on I/A.”
U/M: “Alright set ‘em up.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug and gun
investigations, particularly those involving street gangs, your affiants know that
drug dealers will often use rap videos as a way to flaunt their lifestyle. Often
referred to as “trap music,” drug dealers perform songs and film videos that
feature lyrics about committing acts of violence, selling drugs, illegally
possessing firearms, and other related crimes. These videos often feature large
amounts of money and high-powered firearms that these criminals use to gain
credibility related to their illicit activity, as well as warn rival gangs and drug
dealers that they are capable and prepared to commit acts of violence including
homicide. With this understanding, along with the knowledge that Jhamir
Winans (Mirr), Albert Wilson (LehighAve.AMB), and their associated are members
of the Philadelphia street gang known as Homicide Camp, your affiants believed
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that when Winans referred to picking up “the joints,” he was likely referring to
picking up firearms to use for their video.
CALL #611 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 20, 2022, AT
7:20PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-507-8528, A PHONE
BELIEVED TO BE USED BY ALBERT WILSON TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE
USED BY JAHMIR WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yeah, were you at?”
Winans: “I told you, I just ran...I’m getting everything, why what happened?”
U/M: “Where your bitch at? Nigga not answering the fucking door, nobody
answering my…”
Winans: “Uh that jawn, that jawn, uh the door open.”
U/M: “Bro, I am right here at door. I’ve been at the door for like fifteen
minutes.”
Winans: “Call Tit, or you got Titty’s number?”
U/M: “No.”
Winans: “Text the group chat. Titty, Titty never in there. Titty should be in
there he’ll open the door for you.”
U/M: “I texted the group chat already bro.”
Winans: “Hold on, let me ask I/A to call. I’mma, I’mma be there, I should be
there in like an hour.”
U/M: (Speaking over Winans) “Hold on, hold on, hold on, this is Cubie
calling.”
Winans: “Alright”
A follow up call to Call #608, Wilson called Winans and asked him where
he was. Winans told Wilson he was “I told you I just ran…I’m getting
everything…,” a reference to the previous call when Winans told Wilson he would
be getting “the joints.” A review of the GPS tracking device attached to Winans
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vehicle and the pings associated with Winans cell phone 215-275-6435 showed
that Winans was in the immediate area of the CubeSmart Self Storage located at
4391 Aramingo Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Your affiants know this address to be
relevant, as Winans was previously followed to this address and was seen
entering the secured area of the facility by Detectives Rook and Laverty during
this investigation. Your affiants found this to support their belief that Winans
statement about “the joints” was a reference to firearms as they know from their
training, knowledge, and experience with drug and gun investigations that it is
common for criminals to stockpile firearms and often times will store them in
secured storage facilities, only accessing them when they are needed. Criminals
use storage lockers to store their firearms because specific storage units are
difficult to locate by law enforcement and they allow criminals to distance
themselves from the firearms which are often obtained and possessed illegally.
A review of the location data collected from the GPS tracker attached to Winans
vehicle showed that he returned to the storage facility approximately two hours
after he initially went, which your affiants believe to be Winans placing “the
joints” back into the storage locker which he controls.
On Monday, February 21 and Tuesday, February 22, 2022, your affiants
located social media posts on the Instagram pages of Richard Quarles Jr.
(__ramborich) and Albert Wilson (lehighave.amb) showed scenes from a rap
video, presumably the one filmed the previous day, where approximately one
dozen firearms were observed. These posts featured the text “Da members,”
which your affiants believed to be a reference to the members of their gang,
Homicide Camp. Further, these firearms included both handguns with extended
magazines and rifles with suppressors.
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The timing of these posts as it relates to the calls transcribed, combined
with the knowledge that Winans was in the immediate vicinity of a CubeSmart
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storage facility that he has been known to access while he was picking up
“joints,” and their training, knowledge, and experience with drug and gun
investigations, your affiants opine that Winans, and possibly other members of
the Homicide Camp gang, are using a storage facility at 4391 Aramingo Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA to store guns, ammunition, and other items integral to their
gang activity and criminal enterprise in the CubeSmart Storage facility.
A review of records from CubeSmart Storage, 4391 Aramingo Avenue,
Philadelphia showed that Cube #713 was rented to Dhamir Murray, 875 Granite
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 with contact phone number 267-306-0015 and
email dhamirmurray0015@gmail.com. A check through PennDOT records
showed a Pennsylvania driver’s license for Dhamir Murray, 875 Granite Street.
A social media review of Winans’ Instagram account, “dirtymoney.2112,”
showed that Winans was following Instagram account, “guwop.mir.” A review of
pictures posted to the Instagram account “guwop.mir,” leads your affiants to
believe the account is used and maintained by Dhamir Murray. Further, an
Instagram story posted on Friday, March 4, 2022, at approximately 9:00PM was
a repost of Winans’ girlfriend and mother to his son, Zyaira Macklin’s post
(“__zyairam”). The repost on Murray’s Instagram account was a picture of
Macklin with her infant son with the word “Neph.” It is your affiants’ opinion that
“Neph” was an abbreviation for nephew and that Murray is a relative of Jhamir
Winans.
12 After Winans deactivated his Instagram account “Mirr.21,” shortly after the start of the court ordered wire interceptions, he re-activated it. Upon its reactivation, Winans changed his username from “Mirr.21” to “DirtyMoney.21.”
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Further, a “Site Activity” log from February 20, 2022, provided by
CubeSmart for the 4391 Aramingo Avenue location showed that the Entry
Keypad was utilized with the code assigned to locker #713 at 7:17PM. This timing
is consistent with the phone call between Winans and Wilson where he said he
was getting the “joints.” A complete review of the “Site Activity” log from Sunday,
February 20, 2022, showed that the 7:17PM entry was the only entry made to
the facility between 5:53PM and 8:39PM. Additionally, the locker #713 code was
used again at 9:43PM. The GPS tracker affixed to Winans vehicle placed him at
the CubeSmart location at both of these times. A wider review of GPS pings and
tracker data associated with Winans’ car and phone showed that he has visited
the CubeSmart location on multiple other occasions. This includes November
2021 when Detective Rook and Detective Laverty were conducting surveillance
and followed Winans to the CubeSmart facility. It is therefore, your affiants’
opinion that Winans uses and controls the CubeSmart storage locker #713.
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UNKNOWN MALE DRUG DEAL ONE: MARCH 2, 2022
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022, and continuing into Wednesday, March 2,
2022, Winans began conversing with a suspected sub-dealer of Winans located
in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area. During previously intercepted drug deals
between Winans and the same phone number, Winans had engaged in cryptic
conversations which, based on their training, knowledge, and experience with
drug investigations, your affiants have found to be consistent with the
negotiation of a drug deal, where they discuss “grab,” quantity (“ten”), and “new
shit.” Through a review of GPS pings associated with Winans’ phone number
215-275-6435, your affiants are aware that following these previous suspected
drug negotiations, Winans traveled from the Philadelphia area to Atlantic City
and directly back.
CALL #1336 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022, AT 12:56
PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 609-783-0885 FROM 215-275-6435, A PHONE
USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “Yo, as-salaam-alaikum.”
Winans: “Wa-alaikum-salaam. Send me the address cuz.”
U/M: “801 Boardwalk Avenue.”
Winans: “Bro, what?”
U/M: “801 Boardwalk Avenue.”
Winans: “Boardwalk Avenue. 801 Board. Yo, you want me to bring the uh
new shit, like some, some of it? It’s back though, for sure it’s back.”
U/M: “Yeah, if’s back, I/A bring enough of it. I’m I/A shit.”
Winans: “Huh, like what you think? Just give me a number.”
U/M: “I don’t know, probably for now like ten.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m about to go grab, I’m about to go grab that, and then
I’m on my way.”
U/M: “Alright.
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Winans: “Alright.”
This behavior was also captured as a result of the calls from March 1, 2022
and March 2, 2022, transcribed below.
CALLS #2605, 2799, 2801, 2842, 2853, 2865, 2881, AND 2900 ON DOCKET
38-7 E.D. 2022 BETWEEN MARCH 2, 2022, AND MARCH 3, 2022, A SERIES
OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 609-783-0885 AND 215-275-6435, A
PHONE USED JHAMIR WINANS.
Call 2605
U/M: “Yo. Wa-Alaikum-Salaam.”
Winans: “Wa-Alaikum-Salaam. Where you at? You goin to AC?”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m about to come, I’m about to come up there. I’m about
to come. I’m about to take that shit over, fuck that! Huh?”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “What bro?”
U/M: “I was going to call you see if you were going to get up there, but I
was getting the oil change. I can’t come over their man.”
Winans: “Alright, I’m, I’m about to call you right back.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Call #2799
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Hey, what’s up?”
Winans: “I/A”
U/M: “Thought you was coming out here.”
Winans: “No, no something had came up.”
U/M: “I/A, can he get on his way?”
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Winans: “Which you, what happened? What you trying to do?”
U/M: (Mumbling) “I/A, do I owe you some money?”
Winans: (Speaking to unknown person with him) “I’ll tell you something.”
Winans: “Alright, yeah I’ll be there, I’ll be there and then I’mma call you I/A,
I’mma bout to get in the shower. I gotta get a shower and get
dressed first though because I just came from the gym.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Winans: “I’mma call you.”
U/M: “You, you coming over today though?”
Winans: “Yeah.”
Winans: (Speaking to unknow person with him) “What is it? You need me to
bring, bring something other or no.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
609-783-0885 (Call 2801): “Bring bags if u got some”
Call 2842
Winans: “I/A Yea, send me that address.”
U/M: “Uh…damn.”
Winans: “Bro, send it to me.”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “I got to get the shit. Its a..it’s S/L it’s Langdon.”
U/M: “I just sent some S/L somebody to you.”
Winans: “Oh, you..you got S/L permission tho?”
U/M: “Yea, I aint got none.”
Winans: “I don’t know.”
U/M: “Alright, Ima send it to you.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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609-783-0885 (Call 2853): “Send The Addy”
Call 2865
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “I/A, you know where the Showboat is right?
U/M: “You said what?”
Winanas: “Showboat, is a..is a…is a…is a Walgreens right by on the main by
where Showboat at. The Walgreens on Pennsylvania Ave., I don’t
know the address it’s like..fuck, I can’t even see the address on this
bitch. You know where the Showboat at right?”
U/M: “No, but I know how to put it in my GPS.”
Winans: “Yea, Showboat 801 uhh.. Boardwalk but it’s..it’s umm. Look up
uh…fuck. It’s the Walgreens on Pennsylvania Ave.. Pennsylvania
and Atlantic, you heard me?”
U/M: “Yea.”
Winans: “Walgreens on Pennsylvania and Atlantic. Well Ima be here..ima be
here at ten o’clock tho cause my girl work here, so.”
U/M: “Alright, Ima be there before ten o’clock.”
Winans: “Well alright, yea so Walgreens Pennsylvania and Atlantic,
Pennsylvania and Atlantic Walgreens.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winanas: “Alright.”
609-783-0885 (Call 2881): “1101 Atlantic ave”
Call #2900
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “I’ll be there in ten minutes, at Walgreens.”
U/M: “Alright.”
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At the time of the phone call, pings (GPS coordinates) associated with
Winans’ phone number 215-275-6435 and the GPS tracker affixed onto Winans
black Chevrolet Malibu showed that Winans was in the immediate area of 895
Granite Street, Philadelphia, PA. Your affiants are familiar with this location as
Winans is known to spend significant amounts of time there including before
and after suspected drug deals and drug package pickups. Following
confirmation of the suspected drug deal, during which Winans and the unknown
male agreed to meet at a Walgreens in Atlantic City, NJ, the GPS tracker affixed
to Winans vehicle showed that he left the area of 895 Granite Street and traveled
to a Walgreens located at 1101 Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
After arriving at the agreed upon location, Winans remained for less than
twenty minutes, consistent with the length of time it would take to complete a
drug transaction, then drove north, arriving in the immediate area of Newark
International Airport around 11:47PM. Winans remained in the area of Newark
International Airport for less than twenty minutes before returning to the
Philadelphia area, driving to 895 Granite Street, where he remained overnight.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, the facts and circumstances of this investigation, and the above
transcribed calls, your affiants opine that Jhamir Winans traveled from 895
Granite Street, Philadelphia, PA, to the Walgreens located at 1101 Atlantic
Avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey to complete a drug transaction with an
unknown male.
UNKNOWN MALE SUB-DEALER: MARCH 2, 2022
During the court ordered intercepted calls on Winans’ phone number
267-804-6023, phone calls were intercepted between Winans and a sub-dealer.
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CALL #770 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 27, 2022, AT
12:23PM, AN INCIMONG PHONE CALL FROM 484-940-7070 TO 267-804-
6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “Yeah she just called me. She said she wanted to call you cause
she was, she said she about to, she needed something. She was
looking so I.”
U/M: “She said she, what she need?”
Winans: “I/A she just said I need something. I said I/A.”
U/M: “What the fuck, what the fuck does she need?”
Winans: “I/A. Wait, what, what you mean what she need? What, what the
fuck you is, what you got a wire?”
U/M: “Oh, oh oh, oh shit. Naw I’m thinking like, I’m, I’m thinking like
you saying like she needs something. I’m about to say what, like
what, what the fuck.”
Winans: “Naw, naw.”
U/M: “Alright, alright.”
Winans: “I/A”
U/M: “I’m, alright.”
Winans: “Alright.”
CALL #784 ONDOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 27, 2022, AT 9:13
PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 484-940-7070, FROM 267-804-6023, A PHONE
USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo.”
Winans: “You think you gonna need it tonight, or you want wait for it?”
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U/M: “Bro, for sure. For sure, when the clock hit, like when I’m done this
little bit, I’mma sit in the house for a little bit. Cuz the rest is mine,
you get what I’m saying? I got your bread already, but once I do this
jawn I’m gonna sit in the spot for a little bit. It sound like you with
the baby bro.”
Winans: “I am.”
U/M: “So, I’m gonna get it tomorrow.”
Winans: “But no, no, no, but. I/A. Not trying to say, not, not trying to agree
with you. I’m not. You say one o’clock? That’s cool, that’s cool. But
not even trying to bet on really, that don’t mean nothing though.”
U/M: “What, when I’m done with mines, I’m not gonna have no more.”
Winans: “No, what I’m saying. You said, right. Like. Damn! You saying, you.
You said it’s your profit, but that’s still gonna hold. It would still
hold everything up even if it’s your profit or not. You’re saying it
would still hold everything up even if it’s your profit or not. You don’t
got no more.”
U/M: “Oh, even if I don’t got no more, yeah.”
Winans: “Alright look, no, no.”
U/M: “I/A”
Winans: “What I’m saying. You said, alright look. You trying I/A. Alright,
look. I/A, right.”
U/M: “Bro, you could come now, but you chillin with your baby bro.”
Winans: “No, no, no.”
U/M: “You could come now, but…”
Winans: “What I’m saying, no you don’t need. That’s what I’m sayin, that’s
what I’m saying. Alright look, right. You say, alright let's just say I
I/A, I give you twenty bundles, right?”
U/M: “Uh huh.”
Winans: “And, and, and, and. I didn’t do the math. Out of, and two of them
is your profit. If you do eighteen, or say you do and say you do the
eighteen I/A. So the last two of your bundles. So that’s all your profit
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I/A, right? It would be still I/A everything if you go alright, well for
my profit I’m about to go chill for a little and come back. Cuz now,
it’s like if people come past. Say if somebody.”
U/M: “No, I’m about to say.”
Winans: “No I/A.”
U/M: “No, I get. Alright, I get. I get what you sayin. I get what you saying.
It’s supposed to be consistent.”
Winans: “Yeah, no that too. That too. But say if somebody come past, right.
And they was coming to buy them two, them two whole jawns. It’s
like, that I/A. Damn.”
U/M: “And I be like, I’m. I be like, I’m in the crib.”
Winans: “Alright, how can I explain this?”
U/M: “Bro, you tryin to explain it right, it’s just that you occupied bro.”
Winans: “No, alright, look, look, look. If, if you going, alright. You, even if you
not being there. So basically, it’s like you holding up time. Be holding
up. So now it’s like we hold things up. So now, I be goin for your
two, you go I’m going to wait, or whatever. I’m not saying alright, you
said one o’clock, alright. That’s cool. I/A mean that I/A negatively.
Alright in like fifteen minutes that’s different but. Alright, look but
look. Boom. One o’clock, uh, uh. Why you saying that one o’clock
while we waiting for you, that mean I, basically. Basically, you will
be holding me up cuz you taking you time to get your profit, but
you’re still holding me up to get the next shit started. That’s what
I’m saying.”
U/M: “Oh, no my profit margin.”
Winans: “You understand what I’m saying?”
U/M: “Yeah, I get what you saying, but my profit margin be out the way
now. Huh, it’s about to get out the way, but.”
Winans: “So what you want to do?”
U/M: “It’s up to you bro. It is really up to you.”
Winans: “Cuz uh…”
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U/M: “I/A. That’s what I’m saying, sounded like. Like, like, I don’t mind.
You could come now bro. Fuck it, you can come now. But I’m just
saying though, me being, me being a dad, nigger.”
Winans: “No, bro you got...”
U/M: “You just had a…”
Winans: “Bro, come on man.”
Surveillance on March 4, 2022
On March 4, 2022, at approximately 10:12 AM, surveillance learned that
Winans would be meeting with the sub-dealer, likely in the area of 8th Street and
Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia.
CALL #869 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022, AT 10:08AM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 484-940-7070 TO 267-804-6023, A
PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
0:00 – 0:19
Winans: “Yo.”
U/M: “Where you at?”
Winans: “I’m in the crib I’m about to come to Philly right now. I already, I
already I/A.”
U/M: “Huh?”
Winans: “I already put it together and all that shit I’m gonna bring it down
there.”
U/M: “I’m about to say ‘cause mother fucker’s calling me.”
Winans: “I, I, I understand.”
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1:10 – 1:16
U/M: “Alright but umm yeah let me know when you’re on your way down
and shit.”
Winans: “Mmm.”
U/M: “Alright.”
At approximately 10:45AM, Detective Lavin and Trooper O’Konski set up
in the area of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue. At approximately 11:12 AM, the GPS
tracker affixed to Winans’ vehicle, the Chevrolet Malibu, Pennsylvania
Registration KLA-5444, notified detectives that the vehicle was traveling away
from his apartment building located at 181 N. Pottstown Pike, Exton,
Pennsylvania.
At approximately 11:39AM, Detective Daywalt, with the assistance of
electronic surveillance, located Winans traveling eastbound on Interstate 76 by
Interstate 476 in his Chevrolet Malibu. Detective Daywalt lost sight of Winans,
but with the assistance of electronic surveillance, located the Chevrolet Malibu
parked on the 3200 block of Bailey Street at 12:11PM. At 12:12PM, Detective
Daywalt observed the Chevrolet Malibu on the move, traveling away from the
3200 block of Bailey Street.
At approximately 12:25PM, Detective Lavin and Trooper O’Konski
observed Winans arrive to the area of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue in the
Chevrolet Malibu, Pennsylvania Registration KLA-5444. Winans circled the block
several times as if he was looking for a parking spot. A few minutes later, Winans
parked on the 2600 block of N. 8th Street, on the west side of the street. At
approximately 12:30PM, Detective Lavin observed the sub-dealer, an
unidentified black male, approximately 18-years-old, who has been observed
meeting with Winans in the past, walking eastbound on Lehigh Street towards
8th Street. When the sub-dealer made it to the corner of 8th Street and Lehigh
Avenue, Detective Lavin could see that he was talking on his cellular phone
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(phone to ear). A short time later, the sub-dealer walked down 8th Street in the
direction of Winans’ vehicle.
At approximately 12:32 PM, Trooper O’Konski got out on foot and surveyed
the area. Trooper O’Konski did not see the sub-dealer on the street, and believed
he was inside of Winans’ vehicle – the Chevrolet Malibu. At approximately 12:34
PM, Detective Lavin, Detective Fedak, and Trooper O’Konski observed the sub-
dealer walk to the corner of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue from the direction of
Winans’ vehicle. The male, wearing all black, including a face mask, and pink
sneakers, remained at the corner of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue until
approximately 2:15 PM.
During the male’s stay at the corner of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue, he
was witnessed by Detective Lavin engaging in one hand-to-hand transaction with
an older male in a green/gray vest, which Detective Lavin believed was drug
related. At approximately 2:10 PM, Detective Lavin observed the older, black-
male approach the younger, black-male (the sub-dealer) at the corner of 8th
Street and Lehigh Avenue. After they initially met and briefly spoke at the corner,
they walked together deeper on the block on 8th Street. At this time, Detective
Lavin observed the sub-dealer hand the older male a small object with his right
hand. The older male accepted the small object and inspected what he had just
received. The older male then walked across Lehigh Avenue and traveled
westbound on Lehigh Street on the sidewalk.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations as well as the facts and circumstances of this investigation, your
affiants opine that Winans met the unknown sub-dealer for the purpose of giving
him heroin/fentanyl that the sub-dealer would sell on Winans behalf. This
opinion is supported by the calls transcribed above as well as the observations
of surveillance officers who watched Winans meet with the sub-dealer and then
observed the sub-dealer engage in a hand-to-hand transaction shortly thereafter.
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WINANS INTERCEPTED CALL REGARDING GUN
TRAFFICKING: MARCH 6, 2022
On Sunday, March 6, 2022, the following phone call was intercepted which
provided additional insight into Winans and Quarles Jr.’s criminal activities,
involving, what your affiants believe to be, related to gun trafficking.
CALL #927 ON DOCKET 38-2 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 6, 2022 AT 7:09 PM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 215-268-0151, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, TO 267-804-6023, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR WINANS
U/M: “Got no iPhone.”
Winans: “Ah shit, what the fuck! That’s why I was trying to FaceTime you.
Yo, uh you got some jawns you trying to get rid of?”
U/M: “What kind?”
Winans: “I don’t know, Meek said you got some jawns you trying to get rid
of I don’t.”
U/M: “Na, I got a line on them jawns like.”
Winans: “They on deck like right now?”
U/M: “Yea but you got…for real for real you know Rich the driver, you’re
going to have to send Rich down there.”
Winans: “Oh shit, well how where…where’s it? Like how far is it?”
U/M: “It’s in South Carolina.”
Winans: “Damn…but that’s only like what like five-six hours?”
U/M: “Probably like eight.”
Winans: “Eight.”
U/M: “Yea, he’ll give you like three of them for fifteen hundred.”
Winans: “And what is they, good jawns?”
U/M: “Yea they be glizzys and shit like that.”
Winans: “Alright, how many…what’s the most I can get tho?”
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U/M: “I got to call him for real for real.”
Winans: “Alright, uh.”
U/M: “Like I be going down there for E-Bombs, I don’t really be goin for
that.”
Winans: “I thought..I thought I/A deek, I thought they was like on deck like
right now around the city.”
U/M: “Naw they will drive that shit up here but then they gonna be
taxing.”
Winans: “Like what?”
U/M: “They probably want like a thousand.”
Winans: “Naw that’s cool, tell him to bring em’.”
U/M: “How many you want?”
Winans: “I’ll grab five he bring five, I’ll grab five right now if he bring up
here.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright, just let me know tho I/A like I said I/A I’ll meet him where
ever he want to meet and shit a third and I’ll grab and I/A five like
he can go back and bring another five more.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Winans: “Alright just call and let me know tho.”
U/M: “Alright yo, what’s up with the ice situation?
Winans: S/L “that shit around I/A.”
U/M: “I got uh...I be fucking with the Papi’s and they be giving this shit
to me cheap.”
Winans: “What is cheap?”
U/M: “At like twenty-five or under.”
Winans: “Naw I can beat that, I get twenty-one.”
U/M: “Twenty-one?”
Winans: “Yea.”
U/M: “Alright, Ima call you..Ima rap with you.”
Winans: “Alright.”
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U/M: “Alright.”
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that the above transcribed voice call was related to the trafficking of guns
from South Carolina to Pennsylvania. Based on your affiants’ training,
knowledge, and experience, it is their opinion that when Winans and the
unknown male refer to “jawns” and “glizzies,” this was in reference to guns. Your
affiants recognize these slang terms when used in this context is related to guns,
and believed to refer to a Glock firearm. The male told Winans to send “Rich the
driver,” who your affiants believe to refer to Richard Quarles Jr., “down there.”
Winans asked the unknown male about five and stated he was willing to pay
$1,000 each if they were brought up to him. This further supports the affiants’
opinion that Winans and Quarles Jr. are involved in criminal activity.
WINANS DELIVERY TO JEFFREY ANCELL: MARCH 8,
2022
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Winans and Jeffrey Ancell communicated
and Winans subsequently traveled to Clarksburg, West Virginia.
CALLS #4080, 4082, 4085, AND 4115 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 ON
MARCH 8, 2022, BETWEEN 9:07PM AND 9:52PM, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 304-627-5090, A PHONE USED BY
JEFFREY ANCELL, AND 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY JHAMIR
WINANS
Ancell (Call #4080, 4082): “My bad man that other number is a text free
number and it doesn’t ring thru because I deleted
the app when I got this phone turned back on so
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I didn’t even see where u called or anything on
there”
Call #4085
Ancell: “Hello?”
Winans: “Hey Jeff.”
Ancell: “What’s up man?”
Winans: “What’s up man, uh I’mma um, I, I’m about, I know you been
missing a lot money right?”
Ancell: “Yeah, right now I got. That’s what I’m saying, I got over six for you
now. I couple a couple of G’s left too, but I’ve been trying to slow
things down because I’m about out.”
Winans: “Alright, yeah I’m trying. Yeah, I’m about to get somebody to come
down there like that’s gonna stay down there so you”
Ancell: “Yeah, I thought. I thought I thought I mentioned I/A dude. I got my
phone turned back on, so I ain’t got. That other number was just an
App, that’s all it was.”
Winans: “Right.”
Ancell: “So that’s why, that’s why I got. When I got this phone turned back
on, I kind of got rid of cuz all that I/A was just a Text Free App. But
it wasn’t really working so great. I had to put people I/A in there and
shit, so I got my phone turned back on.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Ancell: “Yeah, but right now, right now I think I got, I think got like sixty-
four I think right now. I still have a couple of G’s left, so.”
Winans: “I/A”
Ancell: “But like I said, I been trying to slow it down the last couple of days,
because I know I could sell it all right now.”
Winans: “I can’t hear you, you said you got. What did you say you got? Sixty-
four, you said you got sixty-four grams?”
Ancell: “No, no, no. I got like six-thousand-four-hundred.”
Winans: “Oh, alright, alright, alright.”
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Ancell: “Yeah.”
Winans: “Alright, I’mma uh, I’m probably just gonna come down there and
just get it and just. How many? And then just bring you some more
grams.”
Ancell: “Yeah, I mean I only got. I got a couple of left. But like I said, I just
slowed down and that way cuz I mean I can sell it all but I was just
kind of just I/A with the people that spend more money with me
right now until you guys got down here.”
Winans: “Alright, I might, I’mma, I’mma try to get down there today.”
Ancell: “That’s cool man. I’m I/A. I got it, I got it all pulled up for you. So
you just call me and let me know, I’ll be here.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Ancell: “Alright, sounds good.”
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that the above voice call was a conversation between Winans and Ancell
where Ancell told Winans that he had $6,400 for him and only had a couple of
“grams” left. Your affiants know that a gram is a common measurement of drugs.
It is therefore their opinion that the above voice call is related to the sale of drugs.
Call #4115
Ancell: “Hello?”
Winans: “Hey Jeff, I’m on my way.”
Ancell: “Alright, sounds good man. I’ll be waiting on you.”
Winans: “Alright.”
Ancell: “Alright man.”
Based on the above calls between Winans and Ancell, it is their opinion
that Winans told Ancell that he was driving to meet with him to collect money
and deliver more drugs.
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Surveillance of Winans on March 8, 2022
Following the above transcribed calls on March 8, 2022, surveillance set
up in the area of 896 Granite Street, Philadelphia, a location frequented by
Jhamir Winans. Detective Stanley located a black Mercedes, Pennsylvania
registration LTW-4611 parked near the residence. Through a review of Winans
Instagram account and previous surveillance, this vehicle is known to be
associated with Winans. Specifically, Winans is known to have purchased this
vehicle during this investigation and presented it to Zyaira Macklin while she
was pregnant with his child. A check through PennDOT records showed that it
was registered to a 2017 Mercedes Benz S500 to Rasheen Corey-Yates, 4621
Parrish Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139.
At approximately 10:28AM, Detective Stanley observed Winans exit 896
Granite Street and enter the Mercedes. Surveillance followed Winans to the
Pennsylvania Turnpike. Believing that Winans was headed to West Virginia,
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physical surveillance was terminated, and his location was monitored via
electronic surveillance.
Electronic surveillance was utilized, tracking Winans location until he
arrived at Jeffrey Ancell’s residence located at 715 1/2 E. Pike Street,
Clarksburg, WV. At 3:49PM fixed video surveillance observed Winans arrive at
715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV driving the black Mercedes S550 bearing
PA registration LTW4611. At 3:50PM Winans exited the vehicle and removed a
padded manilla envelope from the trunk. At 3:51PM Winans reentered the vehicle
closing the door. Approximately 15 seconds later, Winans exited the vehicle
again, put the envelope back in the trunk of his Mercedes, then walked up the
rear steps of 715 ½ E. Pike Street and into Ancell’s apartment. Winans remained
in the apartment until 4:17PM, at which point he exited and returned to his
Mercedes. When Winans exited the apartment, Jeffrey Ancell was visible in the
doorway and shut the door behind Winans. At 4:19PM, Winans backed out of
Ancell’s driveway and drove away. GPS pings associated with Winans phone
number 215-275-6435 showed that after leaving West Virginia, Winans traveled
north before stopping for several hours in the McKeesport/West Mifflin, PA area.
Shortly after Winans left, electronic surveillance captured suspected drug
customers arriving at Ancell’s residence. At 6:07PM an unknown female arrived
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at Ancell’s residence, walking up the steps and knocking on the door. At 6:08PM,
the unknown female was let inside. At 6:12PM, while the suspected female
customer remained inside, an unknown male customer parked a pickup truck
towing a while sedan across from Ancell’s house, exited his vehicle, and knocked
on Ancell’s door. At 6:15PM, the unknown male was let inside by a female who
appeared to be Ancell’s girlfriend. At 6:53PM, the suspected female customer
exited the residence with Ancell’s girlfriend and the two left the area. At 7:05PM,
the suspected male customer left the residence followed by Jeffrey Ancell, who
stood outside briefly before returning inside. At 7:07PM, the female believed to
be Ancell’s girlfriend returned to the residence in Ancell’s vehicle along with a
second unknown male, believed to be another drug customer. The second
suspected male customer was observed exiting 715 ½ E. Pike Street at 7:54PM.
At approximately 7:55PM, GPS pings associated with Jhamir Winans
phone number 215-275-6435 indicated that he was heading east, toward the
direction of his home. The GPS pings were monitored as Winans continued to
travel east along the Pennsylvania turnpike. At 11:09PM, the GPS pings showed
that Winans was in the immediate area of the Morgantown exit of the
Pennsylvania turnpike traveling east. Shortly thereafter, Detective Rook located
Winans Mercedes Benz (LTW4611) driving eastbound on the turnpike. Detective
Rook and Detective Laverty then began to follow the vehicle. Winans exited the
turnpike at the King of Prussia interchange and then drove along Route 76 east
until exiting at the Green Lane exit. Winans was followed along Green lane into
the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, where he ultimately stopped at the corner
of Dexter Street and Lyceum Avenue in Philadelphia. Winans remained parked
at that location for approximately fifteen minutes before driving down Lyceum
toward Main Street, before getting back onto Green Lane and onto Route 76 west.
Detective Rook and Detective Laverty continued to follow Winans along
Route 76 west, Route 202 south, the Route 30 bypass east, and then onto Route
100 north toward his apartment. Detective Laverty watched Winans enter the
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parking garage of his apartment building located at 181 N. Pottstown Pike,
Exton, PA. From inside the garage, Detective Rook observed Winans park the
Mercedez Benz in his assigned parking spot in the lower garage area. Detective
Rook then observed Winans exit the vehicle and walk toward the lower garage
building entrance.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience your affiants opine
that the above transcribed calls and subsequent surveillance captured a Jhamir
Winans trip to 715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV where he conducted a drug
transaction with Jeffrey Ancell. Additionally, your affiants believe that the quick
increase in activity consistent with drug activity at Ancell’s residence shortly
after Winans left supports their opinion that the meeting between Winans and
Ancell was illicit in nature.
JOSHUA QUILES AKA “CHASE_BENJII”
As detailed in this affidavit, Joshua Quiles was linked to multiple phone
numbers. Of note are phone numbers 215-436-8669 and 610-934-2154. A
search using Hawk Analytics 610-934-2154 and 215-436-8669 were found to be
both owned by Bandwith.com. Your affiants inquired with Bandwith.com about
both phone numbers and were informed that that both numbers are currently
leased to Pinger.
Your affiants are aware that Pinger is not a wireless service provider,
rather it is an application (or “app”) developer and communications provider of
free messaging, calls, and voicemail. Pinger’s flagship products include TextFree
and Sideline. Your affiants are aware that Pinger’s TextFree app is a voice-over-
IP, or VoIP, service that allows its users to communicate with other people by
voice calls or text messaging. A VoIP service, such as those offered by Pinger,
utilize Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet, rather than the public
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switched telephone network. Users of the TextFree app have the option of
choosing a phone number which is local to their geographic location. Based on
training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants are aware that TextFree does
not offer a user “search” function, therefore a user’s name, e-mail address, or
username, are not publicly accessible. In this regard, TextFree offers pseudo-
anonymity making its services desirable for individuals seeking to hide their
identity. Sideline offers similar VoIP services which allow users to select a second
phone number to communicate with other people by text, voice, and voicemail.
Your affiants find this relevant as since Pinger is not a wireless service it
is not subject to Title III requirements.
PINGER PHONE RECORDS FOR PHONE NUMBERS 215-
436-8669 AND 610-934-2154
On Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the Honorable Judge Joseph A. Smyth
of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas signed two search warrants
to be served on Pinger, a US Telecom provider for free texts, pictures, calls, and
voicemails. Pinger is a web-based phone application that allows users to
communicate in the same ways one uses a regular cell phone, but in a more
secure manner. Pinger does not require or verify specific identification
information to use their service and therefore users can communicate using the
app in relative anonymity. Further, Pinger does not have the ability to provide
live monitoring of calls and texts, and therefore numbers associated with Pinger
are unable to be wiretapped.
The two search warrants served were related to two numbers associated
with Joshua “Chase Benjii” Quiles. The dates covered are listed below:
215-436-8669 December 1, 2021 - February 23, 2022
610-934-2154 February 1, 2022 – February 23, 2022
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As a result of the search warrants, Pinger provided call detail records
which included message content with photographs.
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 215-436-8669 (Quiles) AND 424-646-1314
(Evans)
Below are excerpts of the conversations between Joshua Quiles (215-436-
8669) and Ricky Evans (424-646-1314) from the dates December 22, 2021, to
December 28, 2021.
During the communications, Quiles identified himself as “Chase” and sent
tracking information from a package mailed to California. A check from the UPS
tracking information showed a 3.5lb package mailed to California which was
delivered on December 22, 2021. Quiles sent a screenshot of an address: Joe
Perez, 6029 Colgate Street, Floor 1, Philadelphia, which was followed up by an
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image sent by Evans of UPS tracking information sent to 6029 Colgate Street, Fl
1, Philadelphia, PA 19111.
A check of the UPS tracking information showed a 4.1lb package delivered
to Philadelphia on December 23, 2021.
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During follow-up communication on December 27, 2021, Evans sent a
message with a delivery address: 837 ½ S. Wilton Place, Los Angeles, and asked
Quiles to “grab black bread to send out with yours.” Based on their training,
knowledge, and experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that Quiles was shipping
money (“bread”) to Evans in California and Evans wanted Quiles to send Evans
money for both Quiles’ packages and Tyrone Baker’s (Black) packages. On
December 28, 2021, Quiles sent another picture of a tracking number. A check
of the tracking number: 1ZE797111532165071, through UPS records showed a
4.7lb package delivered to Los Angeles on December 28, 2021.
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 215-436-8669 (QUILES) AND 213-513-9010
(EVANS – NEW NUMBER)
Following the messaging on December 28, 2021, Ricky Evans changed his
phone number to 213-513-9010, possibly as a result of the seizure of over forty
pounds of methamphetamine shipped by Ricky Evans to Quiles, Baker, and
Winans. The conversations below consistent of excerpts of the Pinger messages
between Joshua Quiles (215-436-8669) and Ricky Evans (213-513-9010).
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On December 28, 2022, Evans provided Quiles with his new phone
number. Quiles then provided a shipping address (508 Sanger Street,
Philadelphia) and Evans responded by sending pictures of the receipt from the
UPS store #6993, Los Angeles and the tracking number: 1Z59FW850186245712.
This is one of the packages which was seized by law enforcement.
Following the package seizure by law enforcement, Quiles messaged Evans
on January 10, 2022, with “Yea bro send a fresh addy wanna change everything
up.” Your affiants believe that Quiles was telling Evans that he wanted to change
the addresses so that the new packages did not get seized/lost. The conversation
continued on January 11, 2022, where Quiles and Evans exchanged addresses
and tracking numbers.
During the above message exchange, Evans provided address 3112 W 67th
Street, Los Angeles (January 11, 2022). It should be noted that 3112 W. 67th
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Street, Los Angeles is an address associated with Ricky Evans. Evans responded
on January 17, 2022, with a picture of a UPS receipt with tracking number
1Z9943920193989689 addressed to Mark Jones, 110 Lexington Avenue,
Lansdowne, PA. A check of the tracking number provided by Quiles showed
1Z5R887V0179592099, a 3.8lb package delivered to Los Angeles, CA on January
12, 2022. A check of the tracking number provided by Evans showed
1Z9943920193989689, a 10lb package delivered to Lansdowne, PA on January
19, 2022. Based on the above, it is your affiants’ opinion that the two packages
were consistent with a drug transaction where one package contained payment
and the second package contained drugs.
During the above message exchange, Evans provided address 6659 7th
Avenue, Los Angeles and referenced “zips,” which your affiants know to be a
common drug slang term for ounces – a common weight drugs are sold in. A
check of the tracking number provided by Quiles showed
1ZE797110101515106, a 3.9lb package delivered to Los Angeles, CA on January
25, 2022. Quiles then instructed the package to be shipped to Danny Garcia,
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3835 Elsinore Street, Philadelphia and Evans sent a picture of UPS tracking
number 1Z9943920199180531, which according to UPS records showed a 9.7lb
package delivered to Philadelphia on January 26, 2022.
On January 26, 2022, Quiles again reached out to Evans who provided an
address for Tierra Moultrie, 548 South Spring Street Apt B5, Los Angeles. It
should be noted that Moultrie is believed to be the girlfriend of Ricky Evans.
Evans then changed the shipping address to 6608 4th Avenue, Los Angeles.
Quiles responded with a picture of a UPS tracking number
1Z5R887V0184857892, which according to UPS records showed a 4.9lb package
delivered to Los Angeles on January 28, 2022.
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Of note, is the message “For 11,” which based on your affiants’ training,
knowledge, and experience, coupled with the facts and circumstances of this
investigation, is believed to be reference to a quantity (“11”) of pounds of drugs.
Quiles then provided the shipping address for 4615 Whitaker Avenue,
Philadelphia. Evans then responded and sent images of what your affiants
recognize to be consistent with the weighing of drugs.
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OPINION OF CHATS BETWEEN JOSHUA QUILES AND RICKY EVANS
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the above text/photo messages, the messages
intercepted (detailed elsewhere in this affidavit) between phone numbers 215-
436-8669 and 424-724-2079, and phone numbers 610-934-2154 and 424-744-
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2079 are between Ricky Evans and Joshua Quiles and are almost exclusively
related to the trafficking of drugs. Specifically, the two discuss addresses which
Evans can use to deliver drugs to Quiles and addresses Evans can use to send
money to Evans for the drugs. The two send photos of tracking numbers in order
for the other to track their respective incoming packages, and even photos of
what your affiants recognize as methamphetamine on a scale to show its weight.
Further, in one portion of the chats, Quiles tells Evans that he cannot afford to
take another loss, an apparent reference to the forty-pound methamphetamine
seizure in late December 2021.
GIRLFRIEND CHATS WITH QUILES (215-436-8669 AND 610-934-2154)
Additional conversations were located within the Pinger Search Warrant
results including messages between Quiles (215-436-8669) and a girlfriend
identified as Alina Leon. In their conversation, Leon identifies Quiles as both
“Chase” and “Joshua” and sends a picture of the two of them together.
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the above text/photo messages are between Joshua
Quiles and Alina Leon. Your affiants are able to identify “Chase” as Joshua
Quiles through a photo sent by Alina Leon to Quiles that depicts the two together.
Quiles continued to message Leon upon switching his Pinger number to
610-934-2154. In those messages, Quiles asks Leon if he can send a package to
her address, to which she agrees. Leon identifies her address at 1906 Devereaux
Ave in Philadelphia.
Your affiants know from their review of the conversations between Quiles
and Evans that upon receiving Leon’s address, Quiles directed Evans to ship him
three pounds of methamphetamine to that location.
PINGER RELATED DRUG SHIPMENTS BETWEEN QUILES AND EVANS
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, the facts and circumstances of this investigations and the above
transcribed Pinger Messages, your affiants have identified seven shipments of
methamphetamine made by Ricky Evans to Joshua Quiles.
1. 6029 Colgate Avenue, Philadelphia, PA (Meth – Unknown Weight)
2. 588 Sanger Street, Philadelphia, PA (Meth – 7 Pounds)
3. 3835 Elsinore Street, Philadelphia, PA (Meth – 2 Pounds)
4. 4615 Whitaker Avenue, Philadelphia, PA (Meth – 11 Pounds)
5. 110 Lexington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA (Meth – Unknown Weight)
6. 1323 Wanamaker Street, Philadelphia, PA (2 Pounds)
7. 1906 Devereaux Avenue, Philadelphia, PA (3 Pounds)
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SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL”: 38-8
E.D. 2022
On Friday, February 25, 2022, the Honorable Judge Megan McCarthy King
of the Pennsylvania Superior Court signed Docket 38-8 E.D. 2022 related to
phone number 267-934-7913, utilized by Shakeem Johnson aka “Papi Buhl.”
Based on communication intercepted from Johnson’s phone number, 267-934-
7913 was identified as being used by him in furtherance of his drug trafficking
activities.
During the court ordered interceptions and surveillance of Shakeem
Johnson, the following sub-dealers and/or significant customers were identified:
SUB-DEALERS/CUSTOMERS
Sandra Quiles – Methamphetamine and fentanyl sub-dealer of Johnson’s
operating out of the Scranton area of Lackawanna County
Male, believed to be Joe Phillips – Methamphetammine sub-dealer of
Johnson’s operating out of the Scranton area of Lackawanna County
The following sections provide more details as to the intercepted conversations
regarding Johnson’s criminal activities.
SANDY QUILES DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY 25, 2022
CALL #27 ON DOCKET 38-8 2022 E.D. ON FEBRUARY 25, 2022 AT
6:38PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 484-235-6306, A PHONE BELIEVED TO
BE USED BY SANDRA QUILES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING
USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
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S. Quiles: “Hello.”
Johnson: “Yeah, I got, I got faith in you Sandy.”
S. Quiles: “You have faith in me. Well, I hope you have faith in me, I’ll show
you buddy, I’ll show ya.”
Johnson: “Then I, but then I told you, you wasn’t expecting that.”
S. Quiles: “Huh?”
Johnson: “I said you wasn’t expecting the two whole ones.”
S. Quiles: (chuckles)
Johnson: “Was you?”
S. Quiles: (speaking over Johnson) “I uh… what? What was that again? Kinda
but I didn’t so go ahead again.”
Johnson: “I said you wasn’t expecting the two whole ones.”
S. Quiles: “No, I wasn’t expecting that but, I know me.”
Johnson: (speaking over Quiles) I/A
S. Quiles: “I mean I know myself so I know you but I/A I know that’s hard.”
Johnson: “I have to show you that I mess with you. You get what I’m saying.”
S. Quiles: “Yep.”
Johnson: “I/A call you, ya mean…”
S. Quiles: “Yep.”
Johnson: “the ball rolling.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, I already got… well, Rosie’s on her way now and then I got
the other guy coming later but like I said, I gotta go to the ER
because they, Rosie come back from the doctor, they want her at
the ER.”
Johnson: “They want Rosie at the ER?”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, she got Staph Infection. Hang on one-minute bud let me call
you right back. Mike’s texting in or calling in.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the above transcribed call was related to Johnson’s
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ongoing drug dealing. More specifically, Johnson was telling a sub-dealer,
believed to be Sandy Quiles, that he left drugs for her to sell.
SANDY QUILES DRUG DEAL TWO: MARCH 4, 2022
CALLS #68, 201, 448, 513, 593, 655, 880, AND 1288 ON DOCKET 38-8
E.D. 2022 BETWEEN FEBRUARY 25, 2022, AND MARCH 4, 2022, A
SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 570-352-7193, A PHONE BEING
USED BY AN UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE SANDRA QUILES, AND
267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Call #68
S. Quiles: “Hey Bud.”
Johnson: “What’s up Sandy? I gotta come back up there tomorrow morning
to, I left my phone and my um…”
S. Quiles: “Oh shit!”
Johnson: “Yeah, so…”
S. Quiles: “Thought you were getting away with not seeing me for a few days
huh? Love it!”
Johnson: (chuckle)
S. Quiles: “Brought you right back home.” (chuckle)
Johnson: “Yeah If you need me to bring you anything, let me know.”
S. Quiles: “Okay, um… you know like I/A, like she is going to be stopping
back by, so I will tell her. You know what really, I need you to
check on getting pens, the, the weed pens because she like I/A.
Hang on, I’ll find out in two seconds. No, no cause you done
walked pass the door and none was in there. What one was the
one, because you’ll probably buy one or two of them and I need to
be you know close enough I/A, cause I just don’t know. We’re
heading to the hospital now, so I don’t, I don’t know.”
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Johnson: (Talking over Quiles) “Is she okay?”
S. Quiles: “Well, they said she’s got a real bad staph infection so they want
her to go and get hooked up to this intravenous”
Johnson: (speaking over Quiles) “Yeah hope she can.”
U/F: (speaking in background) “What time is that I/A what, what we’re
doing?”
S. Quiles: “I/A”
Johnson: “Oh Indica.”
S. Quiles: “Indica.”
Johnson: “Oh, Indica, alright, I gotcha.”
S. Quiles: “No, it’s the Indica, it like let’s let them know how it goes but
whatever one, whatever one puts me to sleep. I/A it’s got the most,
whatever in it. And what do you want one or two if he can get it,
he’s coming tomorrow. I don’t know, do you know about what they
run. Huh? Huh?”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, do you know how much they charge.”
Johnson: “Gotta ask my broth, gotta ask my brother-in-law, my brother be
having them.”
S. Quiles: “What?”
S. Quiles: (yelling to U/F in background) “I’m coming!”
S. Quiles: “Just um… find out how much and let me know that as soon as
possible.”
Johnson: “Does she have a, does she…”
S. Quiles: “and then I can let you know I/A.”
Johnson: “Does she have a, does she have…”
S. Quiles: “How many you want.”
Johnson: “Yeah, did she ever come and get her stuff?”
S. Quiles: “Um… she came but (chuckle) to borrow, I just put the money
down.”
U/F: “I’m on my I/A head’s wet.”
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S. Quiles: “Come on.”
U/F: “I’m already wet.”
S. Quiles: “What are you saying hurry up for? (chuckle) huh? But um yeah,
he, she came and then she didn’t have the, didn’t have all the
money, said she had to go to Honesdale to um… you know get
some more money together.”
Johnson: “Oh so, oh so, oh so she’s gonna come back.”
S. Quiles: “Oh, hell yeah because now I’m the supplier to her.”
Johnson: “Right, so…”
S. Quiles: “Like she has no way to get anything but through me.”
Johnson: “Right and then what happened to the other girl that got the one,
that half of one.”
S. Quiles: “What’s that?”
Johnson: “What happened to the other girl that got the old one?”
S. Quiles: “Oh, she’s here now she just don’t need nothing yet.”
Johnson: “Oh, alright.”
S. Quiles: “You know what I mean so, but I’ll need, I’ll have it gone because
like I said…”
S. Quiles: (speaking to unknown individual) “Does she want all the lights out
in here?”
S. Quiles: “like um…”
Johnson: “Yeah, just take your time.”
S. Quiles: “Are you sure she’s coming back and she’s got two.”
Johnson: “Take your time S/L they’ll come.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, like that’s what I said, there not going away because I got
the best shit right now and the cheapest price.”
S. Quiles: (speaking to unknown individual) “Does she need anything out of
the room?”
Johnson: “Alright, just let me know then.”
U/child: “Grandma.”
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S. Quiles: “Alright, yeah but hit me back as soon as you can find out how
much the Indica is and how much they are and then I’ll be able to
let you know how many you want.”
U/M?: “Okay.”
U/child: “Grandma.”
Johnson: “I got you.”
S. Quiles: “Okay.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright so…”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed call was related to the ongoing drug dealing
relationship between Shakeem Johnson and Sandy Quiles. Further, Sandra
Quiles told Johnson that her drug business was going well because she had the
highest quality drugs at the lowest prices.
Call #201
Johnson: “What’s up Sandy?”
S. Quiles: “Ah, nothing much I just left from seeing Rosie.”
Johnson: “How was it?”
S. Quiles: “Oh alright, she is getting surgery in the morning.”
Johnson: “Alright that’s good I’m happy she...is she doing better?”
S. Quiles: “Well so so not the best but.”
Johnson: “Yeah, you told her, you told that I- you told her what I said?”
S. Quiles: “I/A this is, this is umm... I/A they’re draining the abscess and
everything.”
Johnson: “Alright, you told her I asked about her?”
S. Quiles: “What’s that?”
Johnson: “You told her I asked about her?”
S. Quiles: “Yeah I told her and she said to tell you thank you.”
Johnson: “Uh huh. Yo. Did anymore people come?”
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S. Quiles: Well I don’t know I just left there I been out there since when I told
you I was leaving so...I was hoping to meet with people tonight.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “So if anything I should have probably, you know at least 500 of it.
I hoping by tonight and then so from there after that alright?”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright bud.”
During the above voice call, Sandy Quiles told Johnson that she should
have “at least 500” and that she was “hoping to meet with people tonight.” It is
your affiants’ opinion that this was in reference to Sandy Quiles’ ongoing
subdealing activities for Johnson.
Call #448
S. Quiles: “Hello.”
Johnson: “Hey what’s go, yo, did you figure it out yet?”
S. Quiles: “Hello. I can’t hear you buddy.”
Johnson: “Did you fig, did you send it?”
S. Quiles: “I didn’t yet because she’s on her way right now. She never came
yet. Haven’t gotten it yet.”
Johnson: “Does she got money already on it or what you.”
S. Quiles: “I just told her again I need you to get on your shit.”
Johnson: “Already.”
S. Quiles: “Huh?”
Johnson: “Don’t she already got money already?”
S. Quiles: “I I/A do it I/A one twice. I gotta go to the bank, why am I gonna go
twice? I had to go all the way home the other night.”
Johnson: “I’m saying how much money you got on you already?”
S. Quiles: “I have I/A I told you to go on right now.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
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S. Quiles: “But I’m not gonna send that and then turn around and send the
other one. It cost money to send two.”
Johnson: “I understand but, I’m saying. I understand but time is, is going,
time is like running out. We at the bank now. It, it’s gonna be
times where oh the bank closed now.”
S. Quiles: “I know but if I didn’t have Cash App I would have to wait, I’d
probably go see you now anyway. But I will get it I/A do it until I
get, I can’t run home now with her on her way and then miss her
and.”
Johnson: “So you said you gonna have to wait until tomorrow?”
S. Quiles: “Huh?”
Johnson: “You said you gotta wait until tomorrow?”
S. Quiles: “No I said I’m probably gonna need to see you tomorrow.”
Johnson: “Yeah I under.”
S. Quiles: “I/A have the other money I/A.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Non-pertinent conversation for the remainder of the call
During the above voice call, it is your affiants’ opinion that Sandy Quiles
and Johnson are discussing payment that Sandy Quiles owed Johnson and then
she said that she’s “gonna need to see [him] tomorrow,” which your affiants opine
is related to Sandy Quiles needing to meet with Johnson to obtain more drugs
for her to sell on his behalf.
Call #513
Johnson: “Hello.”
S. Quiles: “Hey I really don’t know what you talking about I/A. I, I have the
money. I sold, you know I sold the stuff like I said I was gonna.
You want it like when I get it like.”
Johnson: “No I don’t got no problem. Listen to me. I/A no listen to me.”
S. Quiles: “At that point like I/A you like need the money at the instance.”
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Johnson: “No. Hear me out. No. No. Listen to me I/A I don’t need the money
right. I need the money but I take like. I’m saying like see if I said
Imma do something right. I went, you told me that you was gone,
I/A was gonna do it so I was, I been expecting it.”
S. Quiles: “I’m with, I’m in, I’m with Rose right now. I just got done doing the
stuff so. I mean I don’t know.”
Johnson: “No listen to me.”
S. Quiles: “Where you want me to put it on.”
Johnson: “No.”
S. Quiles: “Cash App cards.”
Johnson: “No just listen to me though Sandy. I said.”
S. Quiles: “I/A.”
Johnson: “No Sandy. I’m just saying Sandy. It’s cool if you, like I don’t care
what’s, long as, I/A everything cool but look, when you tell me that
you gone.”
S. Quiles: “And you know I know.”
Johnson: “Listen once you, once you tell me that you gonna do something I
be looking forward to that. That’s all.”
S. Quiles: “Right while that’s why I told you when I could I would Cash App it
to you. It just everything was fucked up because Rosie usually
does all the business with the money part late not, even our bills.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
S. Quiles: “She’s in the hospital. I don’t fuck with the cards, I don’t. She
usually has all that shit. And I have to come see you. The earlier
to, the better, tomorrow. I don’t know how early we can meet.”
Johnson: “So you I/A.”
S. Quiles: “I gotta, I gotta talk to you cause I wanna. I, I got the five hundred.
Ian’s supposed to come later on this evening. I don’t know if he’s
gonna take it all. But I’ll give you whatever rest of the money I
need. I/A.”
Johnson: “Well Rose, how much, how much Rosie got?”
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S. Quiles: “Um, what do you mean? How much money?”
Johnson: “Rose, if you saying, how you mean if, I’m saying if you need more
ice then I/A money then.”
S. Quiles: “Well I don’t have it all. That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’m
trying to do tonight is to get the rest of it all sold so when I come to
you I can give you a bunch.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “I have over five hundred of it.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “I/A.”
Jonson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “That’s what I’m trying to do tonight. Cause now Ian wants to
come.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “I gotta hit up that other chick.”
Johnson: “Alright I got you.”
S. Quiles: “But I/A You know but. Whatever I. Then I wanna try to meet with,
early as possible cause. These doctors got my head spinning. One
minute she’s coming home then she ain’t. So I don’t know if she
I/A or not and if I have to be there so. Um, Rose and Penny may
even stay overnight at the house so they’re right there I/A.”
Johnson: “Alright just I/A”.
S. Quiles: “What’s that bud?”
Johnson: “Ya’ll can meet up with me any time.”
S. Quiles: “Oh yeah well I/A see. You know I/A see when he’s got time. Like,
the thing. I, I, you know I have to wait sometimes on people like
now he’s gotta find a ride to get to me here I/A. Cause he lives all
the way out like where Bill and Dawn used to live way out in
Equinox.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
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S. Quiles: “So that’s what I’m doing right now. I’m with Rose and we’re
running around trying to make some moves right now and get shit
going quick I/A just waiting for people to hit me up.”
Johnson: “Alright I’m call you right back. Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Call #593
S. Quiles: “Hello.”
Johnson: “What’s up Sandy?”
S. Quiles: “Hey. Just waking up?”
Johnson: “How did last night work?”
S. Quiles: “Alright but fucking She never showed up until, I forget what time
it was I told her that shit because you have to sleep for like days.
And that baby I don’t want the baby waking up in the middle of the
freaking night like that because then she don’t want to go back to
sleep she thinks it’s time to get up and play.”
Johnson: “She never came at all?”
S. Quiles: “No she showed up and then she bought some and she is suppose
to be back this morning she said she had to take her kids to school
and then she’s suppose to be back here. So I’ll have the money for
you today either way. I just don’t know.”
Johnson: “Were they I/A.”
S. Quiles: “I’m going to get the rest of it going but I’ll have the other because
I’ll have I got to go to the hospital I still don’t even know if they’re
letting her out or not. The doctor was in talking to her and then he
left the room like he was going to the nurses station but ain’t been
back. So I going to call the nurses station see what the hell is going
on because they’ve been playing games with her for days now one
minute she’s coming home then she ain’t then she’s coming home.
Because I can’t just you know can’t leave go to work or do anything
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because I don’t want to leave her stranded. But either way if she is
not coming how I’ll be going out there at some point so I’ll bring
the thing and I’ll have her Cash App you, you know what I have for
you as of now and then I’ll just keep going with the other.”
Johnson: “Did S/L the guy ever come yesterday?”
S. Quiles: “No he’s coming today. He couldn’t get a ride.”
Johnson: “S/L alright.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah like I said I don’t deal with like 5,6,7,8 people. The only
people I deal with buy big when the buy and it’s every couple of
days. that way I ain’t got my neck out on the chopping block
especially around here there’s too many fucking idiots.”
Johnson: “Yeah, I got you, alright.”
S. Quiles: “So, but I’ll have some of the money to you sometime later on. I
just don’t know what time I’m going out because like I said just
wicker wicked sore throat.”
Johnson: “You still got one left, right?”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, yeah, I just I haven’t, I haven’t even, well I took it out, I had
a little out for her because I had it ready because I knew the way
she’d do, she’d show up in the middle of the night and I didn’t
want to screwing around in the middle of the night. I have to sleep.
So, I took hers out. I don’t have a lot lot. So, but quite a bit, but
not, you know a lot lot (Laugh). You know what I’m saying?”
Johnson: “Alright just let me know.”
S. S. Quiles: “Alright I will.”
Call #655
S. Quiles: “Hello?”
Johnson: “Did you get to get out of the hospital?”
S. Quiles: “We just, yeah, we’re just getting back now so just give me just a
little bit of time to get her up her and settled and then uh… she’s
gonna send it to you she said she just said.”
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Johnson: “How’s she feeling?”
S. Quiles: “Uh… still real sore.”
U/F: (groaning in the background)
S. Quiles: “but still a lot of pain but they didn’t send her home with
anything.”
Johnson: “They didn’t send, they didn’t send her home with no medicine?”
S. Quiles: “Nope, the antibiotic and that was it. No pain meds, no nothing.”
Johnson: “They fucked up.”
S. Quiles: “Yep.”
Johnson: “So, uh… she alright putting it on her card and stuff?”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, she’s got it on the card. You know the other day I didn’t
have anything to put, you know to have it on the card. So, I had to
go to the bank if I had it on a different, so she said that um… the
only thing that she don’t wanna do it a lot because the bank and
everything tracks that.”
Johnson: “That’s cool, so how much.”
S. Quiles: (Talking over Johnson) “You know what I mean, like I’ll send five-
hundred for now cause I’m waiting for Rose.”
Johnson: “Alright so you wanna send five yeah alright, that’s…”
S. Quiles: (speaking over Johnson) “Yep.”
Johnson: “Alright, cause look cause like I just, I just uh… cause I gotta meet
somebody out at the ways to give them a five hundred. It would be
good if you could send it.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, she’s gonna send it in just a second I/A. Oh, she’s doing it
right now. S/L Depending on the second one.”
Johnson: “Damn.”
S. Quiles: “Did you get it, cause I’m trying to get with Rose to see what’s what
cause…”
Johnson: “Yeah, so what, when you, when you, when you thinking about
coming down?”
S. Quiles: “Um… probably within the next day or so.”
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Johnson: “Alright, I got two more for you.”
S. Quiles: “Okay, alright um…”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright brother and hey.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
S. Quiles: “I may need some of that other.”
Johnson: “Yeah, I’ve been waiting on you.”
S. Quiles: “Well the dude, because you know why?
Johnson: “Yeah.”
S. Quiles: “because apparently, they like it better then the shit she was
getting…”
Johnson: “Yeah, that’s why I was saying let me know, I got it for you.”
S. Quiles: “Alright, I’ll let you know how much like what we’re doing. Alright,
she sent it bud.”
Johnson: “She sent it.”
S. Quiles: “Yep.”
Johnson: (whispering to unknown individual with him) “Okay she sent it I/A
we’re good. You got it?”
Johnson: “Yep, tell her I said thank you.”
S. Quiles: (speaking to Rosie) “He said thank you babe. She says you’re
welcome.”
Johnson: “Yeah, just let me know when your ready. I could probably meet
you half way. If anything, I probably, I’m gonna see if I can come
up there tomorrow. I probably just see you tomorrow again, I’ll let
you know.”
S. Quiles: “Alright yeah, hit me up. Let me know. That would be perfect cause
I don’t know about the um… otherwise wait because I think Rose
said she had to take her dau… daughter to doctor’s appointment
or some shit.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “So, you know if you are coming up let me know.”
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Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright bud.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright.”
Call #880
Johnson: (speaking to someone in the background) “Where you at?”
S. Quiles: “Hey buddy.”
Johnson: “Hello.”
S. Quiles: “Hey, how you doing?”
Johnson: (speaking to someone in background) “Um... um... yeah.”
S. Quiles: “Huh? What’s that?”
Johnson: “You said what?”
S. Quiles: “What the hell are you doing?”
Johnson: “You said what?”
S. Quiles: “No, I said hey bud how you doing?”
Johnson: “I/A”
S. Quiles: (stuttering) “I’m just waiting on Rosie again, at a funeral, to see if I
got, you know what were doing here bout as far as maybe meeting
up tomorrow.”
Johnson: “Oh why, did you sell, sell the one.”
S. Quiles: “Huh, that she spoke about your I/A so then I said I/A.”
Johnson: “No, I was just seeing how everything going.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, it’s a going.”
Johnson: “Alright, alright say less oh okay.”
S. Quiles: “Than she might, she might even uh... might even, might even get
some juice this time.”
Johnson: “What happened to the other girl that got the half or the whole
I/A.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, um...nothing, she just one girl aint gonna be able to buy
buy all the time but every other week or so just... she gets paid
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every other week too but you know she doesn’t do it as much. This
other girl she does it often I/A you know she’s a big one so but I/A
she takes a lot and if that other dude, the other dude wants it
tomorrow too. He gets about every other day or so. S/L it all
varies.”
Johnson: “Alright, I’m just chillin’. I’ll hit you back then.”
S. Quiles: “Huh?”
Johnson: “I said, I’ll hit you back later.”
S. Quiles: “Yeah, because I know they said they like D up here better what’s
up here.”
Johnson: “Alright then.”
S. Quiles: “Alright, I/A.”
Call #1288
Automated Voice Message: “Seven Nine Three Four Seven Nine One Three (beep)”
S. Quiles: “Hey brother uh you can come over any- anytime you want and
deliver them tires uh uh I’ll be around so I’ll talk to you later on.”
Based on the above voice calls and your affiants training, knowledge, and
experience, it is their opinion that Sandy Quiles and Johnson were discussing
money related to drug trafficking and then Sandy Quiles told Johnson that “they
like D,” which your affiants believe to reference “dope” or heroin/fentanyl.
The following calls discussed the delivery of drugs from Johnson, through
a third-party (male using 267-792-4288), to Sandy Quiles.
CALL #1425 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 7:02PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-792-4288, A PHONE USED BY A SUB-
DEALER (THIRD-PARTY) OF JOHNSON’S, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE
USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
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U/M: “Yo.”
Johnson: “Yo, you guy far?”
U/M: “Yea, we probbly still like forty five minutes away, hour away.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #1441 ON DOCKET #38-8 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 7:48PM, AN
INCOMING CALL FROM 570-352-7193, A PHONE BEING USED BY AN
UNKNOWN FEMALE, BELIEVED TO BE SANDY QUILES, TO 267-934-7913,
A PHONE BEING USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Hello.”
S. Quiles: “Hey bud.”
Johnson: “Yeah, they’re probably...”
S. Quiles: (speaking over Johnson) “Hey.”
Johnson: They’re probably...”
S. Quiles: (speaking over Johnson) “Yeah.”
Johnson: “They’re probably 30 or 40 minutes away.”
S. Quiles: “Okay, alright, that’s what I was just checking to make sure. Dude
I got eight people calling then I ain’t got much shit... cause I just
didn’t want you know... end up being without or anything.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright bud.”
CALL #1475 ON DOCKET #38-8 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 9:46PM, AN
OUTGOING CALL TO 570-352-7193, A PHONE BEING USED BY AN
UNKNOWN FEMALE BELIEVED TO BE SANDY QUILES, FROM 267-934-
7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Hey.”
S. Quiles: “I/A what’s up? Hello”
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Johnson: “Hello. Yeah, they in the back”
S. Quiles: “Oh that was my granddaughter in the back and then my friend
answered.”
Johnson: “Oh he in the back.”
S. Quiles: “Huh? He’s in the back.”
Johnson: “Yeah, mm hmm.”
S. Quiles: “Oh okay, I’ll be right, tell him I’ll be right down.”
Johnson: “Alright, bring your scale down too.”
S. Quiles: “Okay.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
S. Quiles: “Alright, bye bye.”
CALL #1478 ON DOCKET #38-8 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 9:48PM, AN
INCOMING CALL FROM 267-792-4288, A PHONE USED BY A SUB-DEALER
(THIRD-PARTY) OF JOHNSON’S, TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo, you told her we out back?”
Johnson: “Yeah, she about to come down now.”
U/M: “Alright. So give, give her, give her, give her two ounces right?”
Johnson: “Yeah, so uh... I think it’s fifty-six.”
U/M: “Yeah fifty-six.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #1483 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 10:00PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-792-4288, A PHONE USED BY A
SUB-DEALER (THIRD-PARTY) OF JOHNSON’S, TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE
USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
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Johnson: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo yeah I just uhh, I just gave it to her. Two ounces.”
Johnson: “She give you five?”
U/M: “Hold on I’m about to count it (sound of money counting in
background). Yeah.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Then we- are we doing the Lake Ariel that’s the buhl?”
U/M: “Alright I’m about to slide right now.”
Johnson: “Are you far?”
U/M: “Naw twenty minutes.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the above transcribed calls document ongoing
communications between Sandy Quiles and Shakeem Johnson and the status
of their drug dealing. Sandy Quiles, who was fronted methamphetamine by
Johnson, was working on selling the drugs Johnson left for her and then paying
him for them via CashApp. Ultimately, Sandy Quiles needed more product, which
Johnson delivered to her on March 4, 2022 via a third-party, the unknown male
using phone number 267-792-4288. Sandy Quiles also tells Johnson she was
interested in selling “D,” which your affiants know to be short for “dope,” a
commonly used slang term for heroin/fentanyl. Sandy Quiles was also interested
in selling THC products and asked Johnson to provide her a price.
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“JOE PHILLIPS” DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY 26, 2022
CALL #63 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 25, 2022 AT 8:47 PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE JOE PHILLIPS, TO 267-934-7913, A
PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Joe!”
U/M: “Yo, what up brother?”
Johnson: “I’ve been looking for you, man your phone been off!”
U/M: “Yeah, I know. I got on uh. My cable guy showed up. My son forgot
the payment, cuz he pays it for me and he forgot it. So he had to call
them and get it back on. And, and…”
Johnson: “I was, I was, I was.”
U/M: “And it took all night. Man, all night it was off.”
Johnson: “Yeah, I was up that way today, uh. I was, uh. You wasn’t home.”
U/M: “Oh, you were up here Wednesday? I didn’t UI”
Johnson: “No, today.”
U/M: “Where was I?”
Johnson: “No today.”
U/M: “Oh, today.”
Johnson: “I was up there today, I just got back.”
U/M: “Oh shit man! I had to go get fuel oil and stuff.”
Johnson: “Yup.”
U/M: “I went and I got fuel oil because I was out of fuel oil and I, I had to
stop and put money on my son’s books so he can make phone calls.
I was running my ass off!”
Johnson: “Right.”
U/M: “I just got home.”
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Johnson: “Yeah I figured, I figured that. It ain’t no big deal. Uh, you want me
to come in the morning?”
U/M: “Yeah if you could.”
Johnson: “Alright, I’ll just see you in the morning.”
U/M: “Alright man, sounds good.”
Johnson: “I’ll come, I’ll come. I’ll come early.”
U/M: “Alright great, sounds good.”
Johnson: “Alright, how many you want me to bring?”
U/M: “What you usually bring. Bring the usual.”
Johnson: “Alright, say less.”
U/M: “Alright man.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Later.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation,
your affiants opine that the above transcribed call was between Shakeem
Johnson and a sub-dealer believed to be Joseph Phillips of Lake Ariel, PA.
Phillips, along with Johnson’s other sub-dealer, Sandy Quiles, both reside in
Lackawanna County, which further illustrates the reach of this drug trafficking
organization. In the call transcribed above, Johnson told Phillips he was trying
to get a hold of him earlier because he was up near where Phillips lives. Johnson
told Phillips that when he comes back up, he will bring “the usual,” which your
affiants believe to be the normal quantity of drugs that Phillips buys from
Johnson.
CALL #155 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022 AT 11:57
AM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL, TO 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN
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UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE JOE PHILLIPS, FROM 267-934-7913, A
PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “The other count I was in yesterday where people had to Cash App
me, I was getting that sale. What’s up Joe?
U/M: “Yo! What up man?”
Johnson: “I’m ready to pull up. I’mma be there in five minutes.”
U/M: “Alright man, I’ll be here.”
Johnson: “I told you I was coming early.”
U/M: “Yup, I. Oh, I’ve been up. I’ve been up man. I’m awake.”
Johnson: “Alright bet.”
U/M: “Alright man, later.”
Based on your affiants training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that on February 26, 2022, Johnson met with the unknown male,
believed to be Joe Phillips, to complete the drug transaction for the “normal”
amount of drugs.
A second drug deal was started on March 3, 2022 and ultimately
completed on March 4, 2022 between Johnson and the male through a third
party.
“JOE PHILLIPS” DRUG DEAL TWO: MARCH 4, 2022
CALL #1048 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 3, 2022 AT 5:16 PM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE JOE PHILLIPS, TO 267-934-7913, A
PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Yo Joe.”
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U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “We on our way back now.”
U/M: “When when can I expect to see you?”
Johnson: “I can probably come tonight or early tomorrow morning.”
U/M: “Ok, that’s up to you.”
Johnson: “What yo what you want me bring?”
U/M: “Ah... Keep it the same you know what I mean, maybe um... let me
think, yeah keep it the same, keep it the same for now I got some
things going on that I got to take care of you know what I mean. So
I’m not going to be able to do like I usually do, I got a couple of
things I’m doing now I got to take care of and ah... we’ll just keep it
the same for now, but we’ll be ok.”
Johnson: “Alright I got you.”
U/M: “You got me man some of those 75 R 14’s they’ll be good I can get
rid of some of a couple of them, you know what I mean.” My
customers want the 14’s you know the tires we can keep it there
for now and if she want to change them later then that’s on her.”
Johnson: “Alright so I’ll just bring you up what I bring up.”
U/M: “Alright that’s cool.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright brother I’ll see you tomorrow then.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Later.”
The above calls discusses the planned meeting and the following calls
discuss Johnson directing the third-party to meet with the unknown male,
believed to be Joe Phillips.
CALL #1494 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 10:28PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-792-4288, A PHONE USED BY A SUB-
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DEALER (THIRD-PARTY) OF JOHNSON’S, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE
USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “You made it there?”
U/M: “Yeah we pulling up right now you might as well just like tell him
I/A.”
Johnson: “You see him?”
U/M: “No we out, it saying we two minutes away coming around the
block.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
CALL #1511 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 10:36PM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 267-792-4288, A PHONE USED BY A SUB-DEALER
(THIRD-PARTY) OF JOHNSON’S, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING
USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “You there?”
U/M: “Yea I’m here, right here with him.”
Johnson: “How much you got for you.”
U/M: “Oh he, we right here, oh still in the garage right now I/A he’s
talking to some white boy.”
Johnson: “Alright you can tell him call me on this house phone I/A cause I
want to know how much got before you leave.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “I said when when you can call me when you get to his room, call
me off the house phone....you hear me?”
U/M: “Alright.”
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Johnson: “Call me off his house phone cause I want I want to see what you
got and all that.”
U/M: “I got you.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
In the above call, Johnson directed the sub-dealer, who was conducting
the drug transaction, to call Johnson from Phillips’ home phone. The following
call is that call from Phillips’ phone to Johnson where Johnson spoke to both
Phillips and the third-party male. During this call, they discussed pricing and
quantities.
CALL #1514 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 10:42PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE JOE PHILLIPS, TO 267-934-7913, A
PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
0:00 – 0:18
Johnson: “Hello?”
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Yeah how much you got?”
U/M: “Counting it right now I/A that’s cool, umm.”
7:45 – 10:19
U/M: “Yo.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah so umm, hold on there’s someone right here.”
U/M 2: “Yo dawg, what up?”
Johnson: “What’s up Bully?”
U/M 2: “I’m clearing up uh I’m clearing up our debt and stuff here and just
counting and, and clearing that debt up. I owed ya three. And I owed
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ya two in the hand. That’s cleared up ok? That- that’s coming back
with him ok?”
Johnson: “So how much all together?”
U/M 2: “Ok. All together is the, the nine hundred then I owed ya two in the
hand. And then I owed ya three. So that’s…”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M 2: “Ten, that’s, that’s nine, ten, eleven, twelve is coming back to you.”
Johnson: “Right.”
U/M 2: “On the h- on what I owed ya. And then I’ve got fifteen hundred here
to get whatever I can get. And then, and then you know what I mean?
That way I- I’m caught up and I wanna stay kind of caught up you
know what I mean? You got me?”
Johnson: “Alright. Yeah its, you said its twenty seven all together?”
U/M 2: “Umm fifteen and yeah whatever, whatever it is there all counted
but, that’s what’s gotta be there yeah. They’re counting now so, but
I know I know what I got there you know what I mean?”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M 2: “I gave the, I gave the uh nine for what I owed on the two. And I gave
‘em the three for the umm the other I owed ya. Nine and three is
twelve, twelve hundred and I’ve got fifteen hundred more coming
with him. On the way back. Okay?”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M 2: “I’m, I’m not gonna take all these what I have.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M 2: “I- I- I’ll send him back with uh some if you want me to you know
what I mean?”
Johnson: “Mmm hmm.”
U/M 2: “Alright you got- alright then? So, I want to be square okay?”
Johnson: “Right, lemme lemme lemme talk to him.”
U/M 2: “Ok here you go.”
U/M 1: “Hello?”
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Johnson: “Yeah so he giving me twenty seven uhh…”
U/M 1: “Say that again?”
Johnson: “(mumbles) Give him uhh… give him uhh you say I/A give him the
four. Give him the four.”
U/M 1: “Four?”
Johnson: “Yeah. And tell him he just owe me for one.”
U/M 1: “Alright.”
CALL #1518 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 10:55PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, BELIEVED TO BE JOE PHILLIPS, TO 267-934-7913, A
PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Yo.”
U/M 1: “Yo.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M 1: “Yeah so you said give him four, he owe you for one right?”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M 1: “So that, this is going to be one-fifty right?”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M 2: (in background) “No he’s I/A four and I owe him for one that’s the
five, yeah ok that’s good, that’s right yeah that’s good.”
U/M 1: “Alright so…”
Johnson: “So he can just, so he, so he can just take, so he just owe me three
hundred.”
U/M 1: “Huh?”
Johnson: “So he can just owe me three hundred now.”
U/M 1: “Alright.”
Johnson: “‘Cause, ‘cause three of ‘em is, three of ‘em… he paying for three of
‘em. Three of ‘em, hold on. ‘Cause three times four-fifty is thirteen-
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fifty but he can’t pay two hundred so he put on one-fifty to the other
one so yeah he just owe me three hundred.”
U/M 1: “Alright so, alright alright I/A alright say no more.”
Johnson: “I/A ask him do he want two or one?”
U/M 1: “Say that again.”
Johnson: “Ask him do he want two or one?”
U/M 1: (speaking to U/M 2) “He said do you want two or one?”
U/M 2: “I’ll take one in the hand, that’s enough.”
U/M 1: “He said he’ll take one on hand that’s enough.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M 1: “Alright.”
U/M 2: “Ah screw it I’ll take the two. Screw it. That way you always making
too many trips.”
U/M 1: “He said he’ll take both.”
Johnson: “No tell him its really, hold on. Tell him he paid for three, but its
three left. So do you want- what do you want with that?”
U/M 1: “You paying for three but there’s three left. So what you, like what
you want to do?”
U/M 2: “I got, he said he’d give me for what I gave him for fifteen hundred
he said he’d give me, give me four and I’d get one in the end that’s
what he said, right? Five?”
Johnson: “No for fifteen hundred he’d get three.”
U/M 1: “Hold on Shak. “
U/M 2: “What up bud?”
Johnson: “Yeah three of ‘em, three of ‘em equals uhh its thirteen fifty.”
U/M 2: “Alright I’ll give ya fifteen.”
Johnson: “Yeah so I’m saying so I was gonna give you four so if I give you four
you gonna owe- gonna owe me three hundred.”
U/M 2: “Okay… if you give me four…”
Johnson: “You owe me three hundred. But if I give you two you’ll owe me seven
fifty.”
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U/M 2: “Right.”
Johnson: “Yeah so if I give, so if I give, no if I give you five I/A.”
U/M 2: “Yeah I know, I know I just didn’t… I didn’t… I took it differently
when you said the last time.”
Johnson: “Whatever, so I give five you owe me seven fifty.”
U/M 2: “Right. That’s no problem. If you, if you want to do it that way if you
don’t want to its up to you and its cool with me. Its just- you’ll have
to make less trips you know what I mean?”
Johnson: “Yeah but I’m saying I- if you, you bought three of ‘em uhh you
bought three and uhh I get three left, you just wanna take the whole
six of ‘em?”
U/M 2: “How much is that? How, how, oh wait for what then?”
Johnson: “It would be, four fifty (mumbles in background) you’ll owe me
twelve.”
U/M 2: “Twelve… (sighs) alright man. Alright we’ll go that way then. That,
that way you don’t have to come back with none.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M 2: “You know what I mean? Traveling when it’s not good.”
Johnson: “Alright, alright.”
U/M 2: “Alright man? Alright man, I’ll give you a call in a day or two.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright man, later.”
Johnson: “Alright, later.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above series of calls documents the ongoing drug relationship. More
specifically, the male believed to be Phillips was ultimately delivered product by
a third-party working on Johnson’s behalf. During the drug delivery, Phillips and
Johnson negotiate about the price and quantity that Johnson’s drug runner
should leave for Phillips and how much money Phillips will pay.
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UNKNOWN MALE “JONATHAN JAMES” DRUG DEAL
ONE – FOUR POUND DEAL MIDDLED BY JOHNSON:
MARCH 1, 2022
CALL #688 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 7:29PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-756-5732, A PHONE BELIEVED TO
BE USED BY JONATHAN JAMES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
U/M: “Hello.”
Johnson: “Yo.”
U/M: “Yo who this?”
Johnson: “What’s up?”
U/M: “Oh hey what’s up buddy?”
Johnson: “So listen…”
U/M: “Sound I/A you alright?”
Johnson: S/L “Yeah, I’m good, what’s up with you?”
U/M: “Sound like you just got in the crib um... question Kevin will be
good right now?”
Johnson: “Yeah but you put an order through I/A coming out.”
U/M: “What?”
Johnson: “Last time, you left I/A.”
U/M: “I, well I ain’t, I ain’t even think, I ain’t even think anything pulled
through cause you never called me back last night.”
Johnson: “Yeah i aint’ i had I was ready for you but i didn’t wanna you hear
me.”
U/M: “No member, I was... that what I kept asking you bro. Hold on
wait, whatcha wanted me to do. Did you want me to go straight
there and wait...”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
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U/M: “Or could, or I didn’t know what to do and I was just sitting there
waiting like, I actually missed out on money that night like i ain’t
you know...”
Johnson: “I was ready.”
U/M: “never put no orders like, like, like...”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “and not come through bro.”
Johnson: Yeah no that’s the right, right there, but yeah, I’m around.”
U/M: “Alright I’m in the crib but I/A... that’s the thing, he gotta place for
you, he need 4 but this he, he showed me stuff on like, like, like
that he gotta get my numbers so he took my, he own advantage of
he gettin’ 4 he only wanted to pay two thousand a piece.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “So, it’s like i hear him but it’s just like, like, like, I know what’s
going, I know like how the numbers is right now but I know a 4
piece player couple uh... you, you see what I’m saying, the couple
hours I/A see what I’m saying so I was just calling to break that
shit down, but otherwise everything good. The only thing, you
know has my little brother so you be like pick yourself I/A if
anything you would make sure that I did a little bit like good so I
ain’t, we ain’t gotta worry about I/A you already know he, he I/A
and shit like that.”
Johnson: “I gotch you.”
U/M: “Just to make sure everything um... I’m in the crib I/A soon as I
told him, he bugging the shit out of me right now. I’m happy that
you actually called me cause I ain’t think I be able to come through
for him and shit.”
Johnson: “Yeah, let me call you back in like two minutes though so, I’mma
call you back in two minutes alright, cause I’m at front of my
grandmoms.”
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U/M: “Say no more and that’s cool and I’m in the house bro so we
already know you ain’t gotta I/A all you gotta do is come to my
house.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Okay.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed call was related to a methamphetamine order
previously placed by an unknown sub-dealer that he now wanted Johnson to fill.
Johnson told the sub-dealer that he could make the deal happen through a
different supplier. The sub-dealer, who was negotiating on the behalf of another
unknown individual referred to as “little bro,” asked for “four” and was willing to
pay two thousand each. Based on these numbers, your affiants believe this to be
a discussion about a four-pound methamphetamine transaction that will cost
the buyer $8,000.
The conversation continued with Johnson telling the male that he’s not
“making nothing up over here,” which your affiants opine was Johnson saying
he’s not receiving any payment for facilitating the drug transaction.
CALL #701 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 8:56PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 484-756-5732, A PHONE BELIEVED TO
BE USED BY JONATHAN JAMES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
Johnson: “Yeah dog.”
U/M: “I’m around.”
Johnson: “Um, yeah uh, what’s I gonna say, you ready?”
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U/M: “Well I’m, I’m in my house nigger you know I’m ah fucking crib at
nigger. My I/A bullshit. I’m like listen, my folks gonna call me
back.”
Johnson: “Nah. Nah listen to me. This what had happen though. I only got
like two left from my man that I be doing business with. He got, he
got all four I/A. You get what I’m saying?”
U/M: “Mm hmm.”
Johnson: “I/A.”
U/M: “It’s understood.”
Johnson: “I/A.”
U/M: “It’s understood.”
Johnson: “So if he uh, he ready he just waiting on me.”
U/M: “Alright man. This my question. Man if there was four what you
gonna be able to, to, to, to, I/A. Like I said he got two a pop and
you know that’s straight literally all the money like I/A dollars. I
need to make sure I got a few dollars that shit. Like I ain’t, I ain’t.”
Johnson: “He said, he said I/A two a pop?”
U/M: “Yeah he, he got eight thousand. He got eight thousand. You know
and, and that’s all the money that’s like me not catching a dollar at
all. But like I, you already know I I/A. I ain’t stopping, nigger’s like
my little brother so I ain’t stopping I/A.”
Johnson: “I’m, I’m gonna let you. I’m, listen. I’m, listen to me, I’mma let you
ask the nigger, hear me? I ain’t making nothing up over here. I
ain’t putting no number on it. I’m ah have, I/A call you alright.”
U/M: “Alright bet.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
Your affiants believe that Johnson then called an unknown male (813-
595-6415) to deliver the drugs and followed-up with James (484-756-5732) to
give him the meeting location.
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CALL #705 ON 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 9:05PM, AN
INCOMING CALL FROM 813-595-6415, A PHONE BEING USED BY AN
UNKNOWN MALE, TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY SHAKEEM
JOHNSON
Johnson: “Hello.”
Johnson: “Hello.”
U/M: “Hey Shak.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “What part of the city he live at?”
Johnson: “He live on west.”
U/M: “Oh alright.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “Alright, well I’m stuck I/A, come on, come down there.”
Johnson: “Alright. Alright, I’m getting dressed now.”
U/M: “All shit you ain’t gotta get dressed come the fuck.”
Johnson: “No, nah, it gonna take me like it’s I/A switch the sweatpants it’s
gonna take me two... I’m on City Line for real, for real.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Yeah, I ain’t.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Yeah, I ain’t, I ain’t, you mean I was, I was on City Line but I ain’t
I’m bout to get up out of I/A. Yeah, meet you at?”
U/M: “Yeah, you can meet me at I/A.”
Johnson: “We can meet, we can meet at the gas station on, on Girard if you
want.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Johnson: “I can get there in like 10, 15 minutes.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “I was trying to make it easier.”
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CALL #733 ON 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 9:23PM, AN
OUTGOING CALL TO 484-756-5732, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY
JONATHAN JAMES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Call keeps cutting in and out.
U/M: “Hello.”
Johnson: “Yo bro.”
U/M: “What’s up I/A?”
Johnson: “He need you to come to uh...uh... the zoo cause he said it’s far as
shit for where he at.”
U/M: “The, the cash... everything already here.”
Johnson: “I/A”
U/M: “He left. The, the cash here. He just left the cash here. He went
I/A.”
Johnson: “I/A”
U/M: “I said the money here, I got the money.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Okay.”
CALL #735 ON 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 9:23PM, AN
OUTGOING CALL TO 484-756-5732, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY
JONATHAN JAMES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Yeah I/A brother just dropped the money off. I/A.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Huh?”
U/M: “You could get it on what you call it?”
Johnson: “You said what?”
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U/M: “I said you could get it and meet me.”
Johnson: “Alright. I’m ah call him.”
U/M: “You at I/A.”
Johnson: “I/A. I’m ah see. I’ll call him right now.”
U/M: “Alright. I/A.”
Johnson: “You said I/A what.”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Right I feel you. Alright.”
CALL #737 ON 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 9:24PM, AN
OUTGOING CALL TO 484-756-5732, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY
JONATHAN JAMES, FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE BEING USED BY
SHAKEEM JOHNSON
U/M: “Yo bro.”
Johnson: “Yeah he, he said, cause he said he’s got a lot going on you hear
me? I/A he was gonna see if ya’ll can meet, meet, meet him at I/A.
You hear me?”
U/M: “You know I can’t leave out the fucking house.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “He just left the money and told take care of everything.”
Johnson: “Right.”
U/M: “He’d be back. Like, I, yeah that shit, you know I can’t. And I got
my girls and everything.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “But that shit still I/A yeah.”
Johnson: “Like cool cause I know, I’m mad cause I ain’t, I just came outside.
You hear me?”
U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Yo.”
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U/M: “I/A. Bro I’m right here in the crib bro. Too much of a dif,
difference I/A five seven I/A.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
U/M: “It ain’t like ya’ll I/A eight thousand dollars I/A.”
Johnson: “I/A”
U/M: “I/A owe people I/A.”
Johnson: “I/A. I can’t go outside. Hoping he’s gonna come and I’m ah call,
I’m ah call you right back.”
U/M: “Alright. Hey everything right here where it supposed to be though
right. Like ya’ll gotta wait man, everything’s here I/A.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Johnson: “Alright.”
CALL #741 ON DOCKET 38-8 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 1, 2022 AT 9:34PM,
AN INCOMING CALL FROM 813-595-6415, USED BY AN UNKNOWN MALE
TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON
Johnson: “Hello.”
U/M: “What he say?”
Johnson: “He said some bullshit plan but he’s just I/A.”
U/M: “Huh?”
Johnson: “He’s talking about it’s all old people on the block. Ain’t nobody I/A
folks don’t wanna come to the block like. Just give it to me, I’ll go
meet him. He’s like there’s all old people on the block. And I, I just
I/A I’m like bro. I/A. I don’t know what the fuck. He was gonna
find that number anyway I/A so he was gonna have to, he prolly
gonna have to wait til the morning. I I/A right.”
U/M: “I/A I just don’t, I just don’t. I don’t like his block. All I see when I
come I/A.”
Johnson: “Yeah.”
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U/M: “I/A”
Johnson: “Yeah. Damn, fuck I shoulda did that. But.”
U/M: “I could come out there a little bit closer but I just don’t wanna
come on his block. I.”
Johnson: “Right.”
U/M: “I don’t come on his, I don’t wanna come on that block. I don’t
know, I don’t, fucking. I don’t know who cuz be having come
through the block.”
Johnson: “Yeah fuck yeah. You gotta be like that. I/A.”
U/M: “And if he wants you to come to his block and me come to his
house how more many other people he let come to his house. You
know.”
Johnson: “Right, right, right. You definitely right. Right.”
U/M: “Fuck.”
Johnson: “Right.”
U/M: “And you couldn’t, I/A and I’ll wait right there.”
Johnson: “Alright I’mma call him back.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the above transcribed calls consist of back-and-forth negotiations between
one of Shakeem Johnson’s sources of methamphetamine supply and a four-
pound customer. Johnson negotiated the deal with the sub-dealer, who cannot
leave his house because he was on house arrest and wearing a “bracelet,” which
your affiants know to be a GPS monitor, and the supplier, who was reluctant to
go to the residence of a customer he had never met. Ultimately, the supplier told
Johnson that he could meet up with Johnson nearby, and Johnson could go to
the customer’s house. During the calls, Johnson told the supplier that the
customer lives in West Philly and asked to meet at the “gas station of Girard”
and in a different call mentions meeting the customer near the “zoo”.
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Following this call, there is no further intercepted communication related
to the deal. For this reason, your affiants believe the deal, with Johnson acting
as the middleman, was ultimately completed. Had the deal fallen through after
two hours of back-and-forth negotiations, one would expect to receive additional
calls from one or both parties indicating that the deal was off. The lack of this
type of communication tells your affiants that Johnson picked up the money
from the customer who could not leave his house, received the drugs on his
behalf, then delivered the drugs to the customer. This belief is supported by
pings (GPS coordinates) associated with Johnson’s phone number 267-934-
7913. At 9:08PM, Johnson’s phone pinged in the immediate area of his residence
located at 4601 E. Flat Rock Road, Philadelphia. At 9:23PM, Johnson’s phone
pinged in the area of Fairmount Park, away from his residence approaching the
Philadelphia Zoo. By 9:38PM, Johnson’s phone pinged back in the area of his
home and no further conversation related to the negotiated deal was intercepted.
It is therefore, your affiants’ opinion that this drug transaction was
consummated.
RICKY EVANS AKA “RICO”: DOCKET 38-5 E.D.
2022 AND DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022
On Friday, February 11, 2022, the Honorable Judge Megan McCarthy King
of the Pennsylvania Superior Court signed Docket 38-5 E.D. 2022 related to
phone number 424-744-2079, utilized by Ricky Evans. Based on communication
intercepted from Tyrone Baker’s phone number, 215-980-1764, phone number
424-744-2079 was identified as being used by Ricky Evans to facilitate the sale
and shipment of methamphetamine to the Philadelphia area. The following
sections provide more details as to the activities of this drug trafficking
organization.
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CALL #29 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 3:59PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 323-590-6091 FROM 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
01:32 – 02:03
U/M: “For real though. But you gonna, hey you gonna get yo’ shit done
though nigga. For sure. You just gonna be in traffic (laughs) before
you get it done.”
Evans: “Glad I did though.”
U/M: (Laughs)
Evans: “I said that already. I said fuck cuz I’m gonna just be in traffic. But
I’m gonna get it done. Shipped all three boxes out. And they’re like
fifteen pounds cuz. I just packaged everything up within like an
hour and me being drunk as fuck and moving slow as a bitch.”
U/M: “Yeah.”
03:43 – 04:09
Evans: “I just passed a… I just passed up a whole lot of motha fucka’s
right now and there’s still hella traffic.”
U/M: “That shit don’t make no sense.”
Evans: “Yeah that’s the- but this the best time to be riding with all the
work in the car right now in this traffic hour. Nine times out of ten
you not gonna get pulled out of a million to get bumped up.”
U/M: “Yeah and everything.”
During the above call, Evans discussed “riding with… work” and getting
“pulled over.” Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is
their opinion that Evans was talking about being glad to be driving in traffic as
he had drugs in his vehicle.
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CALL #45 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 AND CALL #3144 ON DOCKET 38-1
E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 7:50 PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO
215-980-1764, A PHONE NUMBER USED BY TYRONE BAKER, FROM 424-
744-2079, A NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS
Baker: “Yo.”
Evans: “(laughing) what up my guy?”
Baker: “Aint too much bro what’s going on with you?”
Evans: “Ahh shit man, did you ever get your phone bro?”
Baker: “Yeah, I told you I been had my phone bro.”
Evans: “Ohhh, I/A shit, I never knew I was just making sure, cause I was
up at the joint right now sending some shit off. I said let me call
this nigga make sure he got his phone, cause I remember you told
me you got your jawn, but the phone still crazy cause when I
looked it was coming the next day or some shit.”
Baker: “Alright bro, bro what’s up with your pop though, bro.”
Evans: “Oh that nigga got back at me last night cuz, that nigga was trying
to talk to me crazy man.”
Baker: “What he was talking about?”
Evans: “Bro, that nigga tried to tell me all this extra shit that I didn’t want
to hear. I said bro you know the only reason, I said I didn’t even
come to you to come to you for me, nigga. I came to you for my
boy, and really, I’m telling cuz, like really, I don’t even have to hear
all this shit you saying, I been knew that the niggas wanted they
money, is what I been told cuz, you feel me. Like what I been told
you, the niggas still want they money, so they, the whole time he
was trying to meet up with them, they was calling for a payment
from cuz, from me. Ya feel me?”
Baker: “I/A (talking in background) Go ahead bro.”
Evans: “So yeah by the time uh, by the time I guess, he said he gonna give
it to me though, cuz said he gonna give it to me.”
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Baker: “He said what?”
Evans: “Basically, long story short, bro cuz said he’s gonna give it to me
real soon. He said basically, cuz just don’t want me to fuck up
again, and fuck up how I did. He said the first time I was supposed
to show cuz. But, nigga, he like I really need you to not fuck up
right now, cause this aint the time to be playing. Cause I’m gonna
be I/A over, over, over here my head for letting you do this to me.
You feel me?”
Baker: “They aint even, they aint even call me, I/A, he aint even call I/A
bro.”
Evans: “And then they still aint gave me the number, so I’m still trying to
figure out if they still at the 14 number, and then I’m still not
gonna do it bro. It’s like man cuz.”
Baker: “It been like, I dunno, I/A, he should of called you and been like
yo, get Black on three way or called me, or call black or something,
why the fuck they ain’t even.”
Evans: “Naw it’s, it’s not even about you bro. It’s about what I keep telling
you, all he mad is about this 8,000 dollars that aint got paid yet
bro. And cuz still sitting here mad about cause the nigga keep
calling him about it. But my thing is and I said bro if you don’t give
me no work, it aint gonna be nothing coming in from your side
anyway. So if you gonna play that game with me, I’m gonna play
that same game with you pop and I aint got time for doing all that.
So if you gonna give it to me just give it to me and stop
complaining and telling me all my, you feel me, he trying to tell me
all my consequences and shit like that and I’m like man I don’t
wanna hear all that, like nigga I don’t want to hear all that shit
man. I’m like all this shit stupid when my nigga telling you he’ll
pay it off, and on the time being of all of us working he gonna be
paying it off. So if he paying it off and I’m paying it off bro, that shit
gonna be done. But you sitting here wanting to complain about it
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like starting to get into the shit and keep going with the process.
And they still aint giving a nigga the number, it’s like yall telling
me yeah but whats the number.”
Baker: “They on some bullshit bro, cause I got a, I got a situation in play, I
just wanna see how your Pop gonna carry on his end. Like I/A.”
Evans: “Naw I mean he say, he say he gonna give it to me, he just don’t
want me to fuck up again, bro, he said it’s a green it’s a go. I don’t
know when, Imma call, I was gonna call cuz back today and see
I/A.”
Baker: “How it’s a go, how you say go with no numbers, like what the
fuck.”
Evans: “That’s the, bro, that’s the only thing bro, you know my pop don’t
like to talk over the phone and I aint got the time to be pulling up
on cuz all day. I be working too bro, so it ain’t like.”
Baker: “Yeahh, like how do you I/A.”
Evans: “He not the he not the type that’s gonna tell me that over the
phone though. You don’t hear me black.”
Baker: “Naw, I hear you, I hear you.”
Evans: “He been through the feds already, cuz not talking over the phone
for nothing. I been called cuz but it was just like he not telling me
the number over the phone, he want me to go pull up on him. But
mind yall, I still got shit to do and people still out here sending me
money through CashApp. So I’m over here running around like a
chicken with my head cut off to get all this bread off. But at the
same time I still got that shit in motion with you too so it’s like you
feel me. I’m like I/A, I just aint got no time to go pull up on cuz
and figure out the number situation and did all that yet. I still got
things I gotta do.”
Baker: “He said he got a number for you?”
Evans: “Yeah they got a number for me I just wanna know, he telling me
he’s gonna pull up to talk to the Mexican nigga about what’s going
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on. And he wanted me to be there physically to be there but I cant
just be there when he want me to be there bro, you feel me, and
that’s what the thing is killing me cause when he telling me to
come I be doing something way different and his boy not about to
sit there and wait on me. So it’s like nigga, it’s a deal, it’s a I/A
until I got the time to do the same shit he gotta do, you feel me?
But he’s not telling me it’s a deal or he’s about to just say fuck it.
Naw definitely he telling me like, he like Imma give it to you again
man and lets see if you gonna fuck up again. I’m like come on man
that shit too easy, bro he just making it harder than what it gotta
be bro so we can get the, the, the, shit in motion. Want to give me
a whole damn story before he give me the, the, the answer, yeah he
gotta give me a whole long ass story. Bro I don’t want to hear that
shit.”
Baker: “Man by time he get that shit together, Imma probably, I don’t
know cause I gotta another situation in play.”
Evans: “I know bro, I told you follow your heart Black, you know what’s
the deal cuz. You know, I don’t I don’t I/A.”
Baker: “I got a situation I could probably bring you in on it bro like I/A.”
Evans: “I, and I would, I would gladly take it bro. But you know I don’t see
nothing like that, like you feel me, I feed off more own energy I/A.
But you, like how you moving right now, Imma, imma gotta let you
move that way so you can make your dollar. Bro I’m not gonna
stand in your way and be like let me short stop whatever yall got
going on cause yall got a way better thing than what I got going on.
But I still got a little situation, you feel me, so it’s not like it’s a bad
end, like you feel me, that’s why im not mad at you that’s why I
said bro when you got it, go ahead cause id rather not deal with
the stress that I already got on my head, like to add more stress on
to it, you feel me?”
Baker: “Yeah I feel you, real shit.”
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Evans: “That’s the only, that’s the only reason why I’m not so much
pushing forward on it like, like he pushing play like oh let me
press play. But once I press play, it’s gonna be more stress, more
problems, I talking about you got your whole situation, just work it
out with your situation bro, so you can get a little better deal bro
cause I’m not gonna stop that. I/A I can’t stop it regardless, so
whatever the case may be I cant stop it cuz, you gonna do
whatever you gotta do. But, if like just letting you know like aint no
hard feelings on that one bro,I already know what’s up?”
Baker: “Real shit.”
Evans: “Uh huh.”
Baker: “Alright shit well just get with me.”
Evans: “Yeah I’m gonna get with you, Imma about to go grab me
something to eat real quick bro, I got you.”
Baker: “Alright Brodie.”
Evans: “Alright Brodie.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience coupled with the facts
and circumstances of this investigation your affiants opine that the call
transcribed above is referencing the ongoing drug business between Evans and
Baker. Specifically, Evans and Baker discuss a drug source that Evans is having
difficulty dealing with. Evans referred to needing to meet with his source (“pop”
who was investigated by the “Feds”) and the source’s Mexican supplier in order
to get quoted a price. Additionally, Evans mentions the cell phone related to
phone number 267-670-4429 and the two confirm that Baker received it.
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CALL #68 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 11, 2022, AT 8:36
PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 213-245-9495, A NUMBER USED BY AN
UNKNOWN FEMALE, POSSIBLY ZEDRA SLATON, BY 424-744-2079, A
NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS. EXCERPT OF CALL:
Evans: “(Singing) I/A.”
U/F: “Hello?”
Evans: “I/A”
U/F: “Ricky, what’s the deal?”
Evans: “What’s the deal?”
U/F: “Hey, you by yourself?”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigation
your affiants opine that the excerpt of the above call where the unknown female
referred to Evans as “Ricky” further supports your affiants’ belief that 424-744-
2079 is a number controlled and utilized by Ricky Evans.
CALL #858 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 AND CALL #4039 ON DOCKET 38-
1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 17, 2022, AT 12:59PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO
215-980-1764, A PHONE NUMBER USED BY TYRONE BAKER, FROM 424-
744-2079, A NUMBER USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans: “What it do Brodie?”
Baker: “Yo what’s up I/A?”
Evans: “Ah shit I ended up getting in contact with this nigga I was trying to
see if you, uh, if you could call Chase for me, but that nigga S/L end
up picking up his phone.”
Baker: “Okay, alright and shit.”
Evans: “Yeah... what’s going on bro?”
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Baker: “Ain’t too much and shit bro just S/L seeing what’s up trying I/A to
put something together the next two weeks and shit.”
Evans: “Alright that sound good buddy, just let me know I/A. I got you.”
Baker: “Alright bro.”
Evans: “Alright just hit me, I got you. S/L We’ll talk man.”
Baker: “Alright it’s a bet.”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience, your affiants opine
that the call transcribed above is related to the ongoing drug dealing between
this criminal enterprise. Evans, who had been attempting to get in touch with
Joshua Quiles, aka “Chase,” told Baker he called Baker earlier in an attempt to
get in contact with Quiles, but ended up getting in contact with Quiles without
Baker’s assistance. Your affiants believe this further exemplifies the affiliation
between Baker and Quiles as it relates to their trafficking of methamphetamine
from California to Pennsylvania.
As previously noted, it is common for Ricky Evans to regularly change his
phone number. When reviewing the Court Ordered Wire Intercept on Baker’s
phone and the historical call detail records from January 1, 2021, and March
19, 2021, related to Tyrone Baker’s phone number 215-594-5491 (old number)
and 215-980-1764 (new number) respectively, your affiants observed constant
and frequent communication with phone numbers with area code 424 (West Los
Angeles) and area code 213 (downtown Los Angeles). The phone numbers13 with
a 424 or 213 area code communicating with Baker’s phone changed as follows:
January 28, 202114 – 424-204-3755; Subscriber “Catherine Begazo”
13 Your affiants know from their training, knowledge, and experience with drug investigations that drug dealers and their associates commonly “drop” or change their phone numbers to evade the detection of law enforcement. Your affiants also know that drug dealers and their associates use fictitious names, or the names of family members not affiliated with criminal activity, when subscribing to cellular phones. 14 Includes records from both Baker’s “old” phone number – 215-594-5419 and “new” phone number – 215-980-1764.
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June 9, 2021 – 424-249-0507; Subscriber “Alberto Gonzalez”
June 24, 2021 – 424-410-2135; Subscriber “Mike Lopez”
July 27, 2021 – 424-413-9242; Subscriber “Rick James”
October 13, 2021 – 424-567-1085; Subscriber “James Anderson”
October 26, 2021 – 424-646-1314; Subscriber “James Anderson”
December 28, 2021 – 213-513-9010; Subscriber “James Anderson”
February 5, 2022 – 424-744-2079; Subscriber “James Anderson”
February 23, 2022 – 424-223-3050; Subscriber "James Anderson”
It should be noted that every time the phone number changed, there was
minimal overlap of phone calls – the old phone number was “dropped” and not
used again.
The phone number 424-646-1314 was in contact with Baker’s phone (215-
980-1764) beginning October 26, 2021. It continued to communicate with Baker
frequently and regularly through January 3, 2022 (only outgoing unanswered
calls from December 28, 2021). On December 28, 2021, the day Baker returned
from California, phone number 213-513-9010 began communicating with
Baker’s phone number. Area code 213 is from the Los Angeles, California area.
The subscriber’s name for 213-513-9010 was “James Anderson.” On February
5, 2022, phone number 424-744-2079 (Subscriber name was again “James
Anderson”) began communicating with Baker and the user of phone number
424-744-2079 identified himself as “Rico,” the nickname of the person who was
previously using phone number 213-513-9010. It is your affiants’ belief that all
of the above listed California area phone numbers listed above are being used by
Ricky Evans.
After learning of the investigation into Baker by the United States Postal
Service, your affiants found these communications to be significant as the
subscriber address listed for 424-646-1314 is 12562 Brookshire Avenue,
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Downey, California, which is the same address as Ricky Evans, Baker’s identified
California source of supply through the Postal Inspector investigation. The last
four phone numbers were associated with the name “James Anderson,” which
your affiants believe to be fictitious because there are no “James Anderson’s”
associated with the subscriber addresses for the phone numbers. Registering a
phone used to conduct illegal drug trafficking in a fictitious subscriber name is
an action that your affiants know is common among trafficking of illegal drugs.
Additionally, based on the changing from phone number 424-567-1085 to 424-
646-1314 to 213-513-9010 to 424-744-2079 and then to 424-223-3050, all
subscribed to “James Anderson” with no or minimal overlap in communication,
your affiants are confident that these numbers both belong(ed) to and are/were
controlled by the same individual. Based on the above and on the pattern of
constantly changing phone numbers with the same Los Angeles area code and
the context of the intercepted calls detailed below, your affiants opine that Ricky
Evans used phone number 424-744-2079 until February 23, 2022, and then
switched to phone number 424-223-3050 (see relevant court ordered intercepted
calls below and identification of Ricky Evans as the user of this phone number).
CALL #1440 ON DOCKET 38-7 E.D. 2022 AT 8:54PM FROM 424-223-3050,
A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, TO 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS
Winans: “What’s up with you?”
Evans: “Nothing and shit. Umm I just got another line today cuz.”
Winans: “Alright I’m gonna lock this jawn then.”
Evans: “Alright. Hey uhh… folks coming back through?”
Winans: “Yeah but I ain’t gonna lie that shit be low as shit right now. Like,
like… that shit, like, we getting ‘em over here, well my… well
somebody over there he bring them jawns over there for like
thirteen.”
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Evans: “Well shit I’m only charging twelve-fifty bro yo I ain’t getting lower
than that. You get what I’m saying?”
Winans: “Naw, no over there?”
Evans: “Yeah, I’m, I’m, I ain’t getting it lower than twelve-fifty right now for
the…”
Winans: “Naw, naw, naw… I’m saying over here, like we getting ‘em like,
well right now, I’m getting ‘em here like… like I don’t pay for ‘em
nothing ‘till they get here for thirteen. But I’m saying over there,
like, my folks, I think my folks are like ten-fifty, eleven over there.”
Evans: “Yeah I ain’t even at that number right now cuz. I’m at eleven-fifty
that’s why I charge twelve-fifty uhh… but, uhhh…”
Winans: “Oh yeah, no, no, I respect, no I respect no for sure I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah I already know. I, I ain’t just gonna put, you know I don’t
put too extra, too many dollars on I/A bro.”
Winans: “Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I already know, I already know.”
Evans: “Yeah yeah, but uhh I/A yeah that’s all a decision of mine.”
Winans: “But I got you, I, no I definitely uhhh no for sure I, I definitely got
you I’m gonna keep you in mind, you know I ain’t never, I ain’t
never gonna forget about you I/A.”
Evans: “Uh huh I got you.”
Winans: “Alright bet.”
Evans: “Alright bet.”
Winans: “I/A”
Evans: “Alright.”
CALL #5228 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 AT 9:42PM FROM 424-223-3050,
A PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
Evans (Call #5228): “My new line bro this Rico”
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Based on the above calls, it is your affiant’s opinion that Ricky Evans
obtained a new phone number (424-223-3050) and then reached out to his
customers (Winans and Baker) to advise them the new number.
CALL #1129 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 4, 2022 AT 3:03 PM,
AN OUTGOING CALL TO 424-267-8029, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH
MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, FROM 424-223-3050, A PHONE USED BY
RICKY EVANS
U/M: “Yo.”
Evans: “Yo.”
U/M: “What up homey?”
Evans: “What up homie?”
U/M: “What’s up with your life?”
Evans: “Yeah, I made it another day!” (Laughing)
U/M: (Laughing) “Yeah I/A like fuck!”
Evans: “I/A do it like pop, why you want me to pull up on me so bad man?”
(Laughing)
U/M: “You worried cuz you thought he was gonna give you some bad
news, huh?”
Evans: “Yeah I was thinking he would give me bad news, but he wanted to
give me some work, and I can’t take it. I keep telling him I don’t even
want your shit, bro.”
U/M: “You don’t want the headache, huh?”
Evans: “I don’t want the headache right now bro, but I just told him I accept
it. I said, if ya’ll get it for me, and ya’ll talking a good number on it,
I’ll take it but right now, I don’t want to take it poppa. I’m like, I just
don’t want the headache.”
U/M: “Yeah, it’s like right now everyone moving too slow, and I don’t know
how it’s gonna go, you know?”
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Evans: “Yeah, I just don’t want the outcome to be bad. Like, I can deal with
two or one taking a loss but I can’t deal with”
U/M: “Yeah I feel you.”
Evans: “I/A”
U/M: “Yeah, two, three, four, you know? Like, okay I can work that out.
You know”
Evans: “I/A”
U/M: “But like damn twenty, shit that’s like twenty bands, you know what
I’m saying?
Evans: “Yeah, and then um…”
U/M: “And then they want some on top too, so it’s like damn nigger! Like
well, well I’m gonna do this for four-five hundred dollars and then
get my ass in debt, you know?”
Evans: “I/A what I’m doing bro.”
U/M: “You’re going to make like ten bands, but if you lose it you goin,
you’re going to lose like thirty and shit, you know?”
Evans: “And that’s what my daddy don’t see bro. I think my daddy into his
head that he really want me to just make it out, out of this struggle
that I’m in. But it’s like, he can’t do I/A because he didn’t start with
me, so tell him like man. I/A try to give him some shit. I just, I still
tell him, when I’m really ready for him, then I’ll take it bro like you
know? I/A.”
U/M: “Yeah when you see everybody’s moving and then they pushing fast,
like okay yeah, I can throw twenty, you know? Right now, these
niggers doing three, two, you know like?”
Evans: “That’s what I’m sayin man. I said man, my boy trying to give me an
extra one or an extra two, I’ll take that, but I I’m not taking no five
or ten or twenty right now. These niggers are moving too slow I/A
your boy want his money back too fast. I can’t do none of that.”
U/M: “I/A as soon as you turn the corner, they gonna be calling already.”
Evans: “I/A. I gotta pay with, like.”
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U/M: “I already know, a nigger trust me I’ve been there, I’ve been there.”
Evans: “I/A I don’t even do this shit today.”
U/M: “What’s good to you though? Well we gonna, we gonna do that or
what?”
Evans: “Yeah, what. I/A. Man, my momma just told me this morning her
shit I/A.”
U/M: “Yeah, I know that shit’s probably back up fool!”
Evans: “I know, that’s what she was telling me but I I/A I ain’t tripping as
long as I/A til Monday I/A wait.”
U/M: “Yeah I/A that’s when everyone’s gonna be ready, you know?”
Evans: “Yeah, everybody gonna be ready on Sunday, Monday. And then I
gotta to be looking out to do everything for them that day, so I/A
what time I/A like trying to I/A. I’m just like, man when it, when it,
when it hits your account, I/A so I can’t wait. When it hits your
account, call me so I can just have my shit back and ready, but until
then I’m telling my pop like if ya’ll get that word, just give it to me
nigger so I can just lay my money back man, fuck! I gotta do
something just to keep this fucking shit in motion bro.”
U/M: “Fuck yeah. Fuck, I’m might eat a little burrito and shit, UBER
Eats.”
Evans: “Yeah, I/A fucking microwavable food I/A.”
U/M: “Fuck that, I’m fuckin starving!”
Evans: “I/A last time?”
U/M: “I/A”
Evans: “Oh that’s why, you ate that I/A. I/A like I’m starving, I just gotta
eat something.”
U/M: “I/A”
Evans: “I/A”
U/M: “That’s why I was like, fuck. I fuckin went to sleep when my girl went
to work. She was mad as fuck I was still up!”
Evans: (Laughing)
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U/M: “It was like five-thirty in the morning I was still in the kitchen lit.”
Evans: “Lit niggers be birdied up.”
U/M: “I heard her, I heard her alarm go off, I was like fuck!”
Evans: “You was like fuck time went by fast!”
U/M: “She started talking shit, I was like damn! So I just layed down, and
she said oh now you want to lay down when I go to work, ain’t that
about a bitch! Eww, I was like damn that’s crazy!”
Evans: (Laughing) “I can’t even lay down no more.”
U/M: “She was like, you kept me up all night. I/A snoring, what are you
talking about? Knocked the fuck out! Shit!”
Evans: “Knocked the fuck out!”
U/M: “Let’s get this shit lined up holmes, for Monday.”
Evans: “That’s what I’m doing. I just waiting uh, I’m waiting for some niggers
to send me some money now. I/A should have made it I/A should
have made it today. Let me see.”
U/M: “Let me know when we on. See what we do for the weekend.”
Evans: “I/A”
U/M: “Might as well have, might as well have them ready for the weekend.”
Evans: “Man, his shit got delivered today.”
U/M: “Oh, he’s gonna be straight.”
Evans: “Yeah so he gone, he’s gonna be able to I/A uh cash me money for
another five again so. I’m gonna I/A money again, and once that
money starts hitting again we gonna I/A.”
U/M: “Try to move. Yeah, well let me know, let me know. I I/A watching
past nine.”
Evans: “I/A. I got you bro.”
U/M: “Alright.”
Based on the above voice call between Evans and the unknown male, who
Evans’ calls “Manny”, it is your affiants’ opinion that Evans and Manny were
discussing the earlier face-to-face conversation Evans had with “Pop.” During
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that face-to-face conversation “Pop” wanted to conduct a drug transaction with
Evans. “Pop” was offering Evans a “good number” or price for the “work” or drugs,
but Evans was worried because if he took a loss, it would be “twenty bands” or
$20,000. It is also the affiants’ opinion that Evans stated during his phone
conversation with Manny that his customers, believed to be in reference to
Quiles, Baker, and Johnson, were moving “too slow” and that he’s waiting for
them to “cash [him] money.” Based on the above, it is therefore the affiants’
opinion that “Pop” was one of Evans drug suppliers and Evans was in the process
of getting ready to send more drugs to his Philadelphia area customers.
RICHARD QUARLES JR. (AKA “_RAMBORICH”):
Prior to the start of court authorized wiretaps, your affiants identified
Richard Quarles Jr. as the self-proclaimed “driver” for the drug trafficking
organization. Through the review of historical call details records obtained via
search warrants, a pen register on Quarles Jr.’s phone number 215-787-8632,
physical surveillance, the review of police reports from other agencies, and
monitoring of open-source information obtained from Quarles Jr.’s Instagram
page, your affiants learned that Quarles Jr. would make regular trips to
Clarksburg, WV to meet with Jeffrey Ancell, a suspected West Virginia drug
dealer. Based on their training, knowledge, and experience coupled with the facts
and circumstances of this investigation, it is the opinion of your affiants that
these trips were related to the transportation of methamphetamine and possibly
other drugs to Ancell and his customers.
Dates of these trips included:
October 30-31, 2021 (out and back trip)
November 7, 2021 (out and back trip)
November 17-24, 2021 (weeklong stay)
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December 3-4, 2021 (out and back trip)
December 14-15, 2021 (out and back trip – 2x)
January 25, 2022 – February 15, 2022 (several week stay)
February 18-19, 2022 (out and back trip)
Quarles Jr. assisted investigators through his use of publicly viewable
Instagram content, which would often lay out the trips as he made them. For
example:
(Descriptions of images provided below)
These four “stories” document a trip from Philadelphia to Clarksburg, West
Virginia related to a suspected drug deal from start to finish. On Saturday,
October 30, 2021, at approximately 3:46PM Quarles Jr. posted a poll with the
words “Road Trip,” indicating that he was planning to take a long drive. At
6:40PM Quarles Jr. posted a story that showed a GPS map from inside a vehicle
that was traveling west on Interstate 76 near Montgomery Drive in the Fairmount
Park section of Philadelphia, PA. The GPS map depicted a remaining travel time
of approximately 5 hours and 6 minutes and 339 miles of remaining travel. The
expected arrival time was listed as 11:46PM.
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The third story was posted at 11:53PM from a Hardee’s restaurant parking
lot with the location tagged only as “West Virginia.” Based on a review of Hardee’s
restaurant locations in West Virginia on Google Maps, the photo posted by
Quarles Jr. was taken at the Hardee’s restaurant located at 199 Marshall Street,
Clarksburg, West Virginia. Using Google Maps, your affiants searched for
directions from the location Quarles Jr. posted on Interstate 76 to the Hardee’s
restaurant located at 199 Marshall Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia. A map of
the quickest route of travel is depicted below:
The map shows that the expected travel time would be 5 hours and 8
minutes and the distance of travel would be 338 miles. This time and distance
are nearly a match to the Instagram “story” posted by Quarles Jr.
The fourth “story” by Quarles Jr. was posted on October 31, 2021, at
4:09AM and depicted a GPS map showing the vehicle traveling on Interstate 76
East (Pennsylvania Turnpike), presumably along the same route of travel it took
to West Virginia. The story lists an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of 5:18AM and
instructs the driver to remain on Interstate 76 East for 55 additional miles. A
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roadway is partially listed on the GPS map which, based on analysis, is believed
to be Speedwell Forge Road located in Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. According to
Google Maps, the travel distance from this location to the King of Prussia
interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is 55.6 miles, which matches Quarles
Jr.’s post. This would be the interchange Quarles Jr. would most likely use if his
final destination were King of Prussia or Philadelphia, PA.
Further review of the call detail records associated with Quarles Jr.’s
phone 215-787-8632 showed that it was in contact with phone numbers
associated with Quiles (267-808-0063), Jeffrey Ancell (304-627-5870) (discussed
in more detail later in this affidavit) and Winans (267-804-6023) on October 30-
31, 2021.
Your affiants identified other relevant posts that support their belief that
Quarles Jr.’s trips are illicit in nature. Specifically, an Instagram story posted on
October 27, 2021 at 11:32PM on the “__ramborich” account stated, “They Always
Ask Do The Road Trips Be Worth It Fuck Yeah It’s Worth It.”
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The photo depicts vacuum sealed U.S. Currency labeled $10,000 in blue
marker. Additional money can be seen on the countertop behind the bag being
held up in the photo. Your affiants know from their training, knowledge, and
experience with drug investigations that drug traffickers regularly vacuum seal
both drugs and money because it can then be concealed in various locations,
whether it be inside a vehicle, apartment, business, or other area.
During Quarles Jr.’s November 7th, 2021, trip, he followed a near identical
path to Clarksburg, WV, leaving the Philadelphia area at approximately 1:00PM,
arriving in the Clarksburg, WV area at approximately 6:30PM, then making the
return trip, finally arriving in the King of Prussia, Montgomery County, PA area
just before 11:30PM. These times were supported by the review of cell site data
collected via search warrant on Quarles Jr.’s phone number 215-787-8632. The
analysis of Quarles Jr’s cell site data upon arriving in King of Prussia, PA is
detailed below.
At 11:28PM, Quarles Jr.’s phone was serviced through a cell site located
at GPS coordinates (40.088, -75.4048). This cell site is in the general area of the
Cirro King of Prussia apartment building located at 625 South Goddard
Boulevard, King of Prussia, Montgomery County, PA. During the connection at
11:28PM, Quarles Jr.’s phone connected to Jhamir Winans’ phone (267-804-
6023). Winans’ phone was serviced through a cell site located at GPS coordinated
(40.0895, -75.4099). This cell site is located approximately 0.4 miles from 625
South Goddard Boulevard, King of Prussia, Montgomery County, PA. A review of
the video surveillance at the Cirro apartment complex showed that at 11:28PM,
Quarles Jr., operating a red Ford Fusion, entered the Cirro apartment complex
parking garage. At 11:31PM, Winans unlocked the 5th floor door into the elevator
area for Quarles Jr. and both Winans and Quarles Jr. walked past the elevators
towards the 5th floor apartments. At 11:36PM, Quarles Jr. exited the 5th floor
apartment area, returned to his vehicle, and exited the parking garage. It should
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be noted that as Quarles Jr. left the 5th floor apartment area, he was counting
a quantity of US Currency.
At 12:39AM on November 8, 2021, Quarles Jr.’s phone was in the area of
Route 76 in Philadelphia.
From 12:37 to 12:39AM on November 8, 2021, Quarles Jr.’s phone
exchanged text messages with phone number 304-627-5090, known to be
utilized by Clarksburg, WV drug dealer Jeffrey Ancell.
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations coupled with the facts and circumstances of this investigations
your affiants opine that Richard Quarles Jr. delivered drugs to Jeffrey Ancell in
Clarksburg, WV on November 7, 2021, then returned to 625 Goddard Blvd, Apt.
546, King of Prussia, Montgomery County, PA, where he gave the proceeds of the
drug sale to Jhamir Winans. Winans then paid Quarles Jr. for making the drug
run, an opinion which is supported by the video of Quarles Jr. counting money
as he exited the apartment building.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2021: SURVEILLANCE OF WINANS AND QUARLES JR.
On Sunday, November 14, 2021, Detectives Rook and Laverty monitored
the GPS coordinate locations for Quarles Jr.’s phone. From 5:21PM to 6:29PM,
Quarles Jr.’s phone was in the area of Hanover Exton Square, 181 N. Pottstown
Pike, Exton, PA 19341.
At approximately 6:45PM, Detective Rook located a matte Gray Dodge
Charger (PA Registration LMG-9868) and a black Nissan Maxima (PA
Registration JLN-6459) parked behind the rear exit of Hanover Exton Square, a
luxury apartment building. It was later learned that Winans and one of his
girlfriends, Zyaira Macklin signed a lease for Apartment 1048 at Hanover Exton
Square on November 8, 2022. They had previously lived at 625 S. Goddard Blvd.,
King of Prussia, PA, which they left and sublet to Joshua Quiles and Niniska
Claudio.
At the time the vehicles were observed, there were only two vehicles parked
in this alley, and they were parallel parked very close to a dumpster and to each
other. A check of PennDOT records showed that LMG-9868 was registered to
Jhamir Winans, 2561 N 8th Street, Philadelphia and JLN-6459, was registered
to Tamika Mack, 4236 Pennsgrove Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. 4236
Pennsgrove Street is known to be one of Quarles Jr.’s primary residences.
The vehicles were followed by Detectives Rook and Laverty from Exton into
Philadelphia where at approximately 7:32PM they both parked at the corner of
W. Berks Street and N. Croskey Street, in the Cecil B. Moore section of North
Philadelphia. The vehicles were both turned off and the occupants exited the
vehicles.
At approximately 7:51PM, Detective Rook observed three people
approaching the Dodge Charger from the 1900 block of N. Croskey Street.
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Detective Rook observed one person was carrying a bag and that this person
placed the bag in the vehicle’s trunk and then the vehicle left the intersection.
At approximately 7:54PM, Detective Rook observed the Dodge Charger
stop outside the 1800 block of N. 24th Street. A male approached the vehicle.
Approximately 30 seconds later the male left the area of the vehicle and was
observed entering 1833 N. 24th Street.
The Dodge Charger was followed as it traveled to the CubeSmart Self
Storage, 4391 Aramingo Ave, in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. At
approximately 8:14PM, Detective Laverty observed the Dodge Charger stop
outside the gate to the storage facility. A short time later, the Dodge Charger was
observed driving inside the storage facility gates. At 8:17PM, Detective Laverty
observed at least two people outside the vehicle and went inside the building. He
observed that no exterior storage bays were open. At 8:22PM, the Dodge Charger
left the storage facility.
Your affiants know through their training, knowledge, and experience that
drug dealers commonly secrete bulk amounts of drugs, proceeds of drug sales,
weapons, and records of drug transactions in secure locations. These locations
include their residences, vehicles, banks, safe deposit boxes, storage
lockers/units, and/or their businesses to conceal them from law enforcement
authorities. Drug dealers often prefer the use of storage units as they are secured
facilities within secured facilities. This allows drug dealers to not only secrete
items related to their illicit activity in a secured area, but also do so in a way that
is more difficult for law enforcement to locate.
As soon as the Dodge Charger exited the storage facility onto Aramingo
Avenue, it turned left onto Church Street. Detective Laverty observed that the
vehicle’s operator was no longer obeying the posted speed limits and traffic laws
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as the vehicle traveled down Church Street at a very high rate of speed well above
the posted 25 MPH speed limit.
At approximately 8:26PM, the Dodge Charger parked on Torresdale
Avenue and Detective Laverty positively identified the driver of the Dodge Charge
as Jhamir Winans. Winans and two other unidentified males entered The Tab 2
Bar & Hookah Lounge, located at 4101 Paul Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124.
At 8:26PM, Quarles Jr.’s phone was within 4,043 meters of GPS
coordinates 40.00568, -75.08892. These coordinates are in the area of 4035
Orchard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 which is in the area of The Tab 2 Bar &
Hookah Lounge. Surveillance was terminated shortly after.
Arrest of First Customer of Ancell in Possession of Methamphetamine
On December 14, 2021, Detectives Rook and Laverty followed Quarles Jr.
from the Philadelphia area to Clarksburg, WV, where he was observed arriving
at Jeffrey Ancell’s apartment located at 715 ½ E. Pike Street. Quarles Jr. stayed
in the area for less than two hours, before heading back to the Philadelphia area.
Detectives Rook and Laverty remained in Clarksburg and with the assistance of
Detective Jason Bartlett of the Clarksburg Police Department, conducted
surveillance on Ancell and his residence.
On December 15, 2021, at approximately 1:05PM, a gray Chevrolet HHR
(WV registration 66E232) parked in Ancell’s driveway, and a male and female
entered the second-floor rear door of Ancell’s house after knocking on the door.
The male and female were later identified as William Wright and Wright’s mother.
At approximately 1:28PM, Ancell, Wright, and Wright’s mother all exited Ancell’s
house and were observed in Ancell’s driveway. At approximately 1:34PM, Ancell
returned to inside his house and the Chevrolet HHR, operated by Wright
departed the area. The vehicle was followed as it left the area and at 1:39PM, a
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traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle. During the traffic stop, Wright was
arrested for possession of approximately four (4) grams of methamphetamine.
Detective Jason Bartlett interviewed Wright who stated that he purchased
the methamphetamine from Ancell who lived near the Cash Land Pawn shop
(located across the street from Ancell’s house). Wright stated that Ancell sells a
lot of methamphetamines in the area and Wright purchases methamphetamine
from him twice a month. Wright normally purchased 3.5 grams of
methamphetamine from Ancell, and he paid $100 for it. Wright did not know
who Ancell’s source of supply was but stated that the source was a black male
from out of town. Wright also stated that the methamphetamine he purchased
from Ancell when he was arrested was not decent quality as Ancell was waiting
for a delivery. This statement was supported when Quarles returned to
Clarksburg, WV for a quick down and back trip later that day (second trip in two
days). Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with
the facts and circumstances of this investigation it is your affiants’ opinion that
Quarles Jr. is Ancell’s source of supply for methamphetamine which Ancell then
re-sells to his drug customers, like Wright.
JANUARY 25, 2022: WEST VIRGINIA TRIP
On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, monitoring of the GPS pings associated
with Quarles Jr.’s phone showed that he traveled to the Clarksburg, West
Virginia area where his phone was communicating with the same cell towers that
his phone had communicated with during previous West Virginia trips. A review
of the pen register associated with Quarles Jr.’s phone showed that Quarles Jr.
was communicating with both Jeffrey Ancell (304-627-5090) and Jhamir Winans
(267-804-6023) immediately before the trip to West Virginia was made. A review
of the pen register associated with Jhamir Winans’ phone uncovered that Winans
had also made the trip to Clarksburg, WV. On Wednesday, January 26, 2022,
Winans returned home from the Clarksburg, WV area while Quarles Jr. stayed
behind. While remaining in West Virginia, Quarles Jr.’s phone continued to
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communicate with Jeffrey Ancell’s phone regularly. Based on their training,
knowledge, and experience as well as the facts and circumstances of this
investigation, your affiants opine that Winans’ and Quarles Jr.’s trips to West
Virginia are related to their ongoing methamphetamine trafficking. The
shortness of Winans’ trip indicates that his visit was associated with business
and not pleasure, and the act of Quarles Jr. staying behind and continuing to
communicate with Ancell suggests that Quarles Jr.’s business in Clarksburg,
WV had not yet been completed. Quarles remained in Clarksburg, WV until
February 15, 2022.
While Quarles Jr. was in West Virginia, your affiants received a court order
related to Docket 38-4 E.D. 2022 on 215-787-8632, which remained active from
February 1, 2022, to February 10, 2022, when it was terminated for lack of
pertinent content. Despite this lack of content, your affiants believed that the
purpose of Quarles stay in Clarksburg, WV was related to the trafficking of
crystal methamphetamine and possibly other drugs.
Your affiants believe the purpose of Quarles Jr.’s extended stay in
Clarksburg, WV was to sell methamphetamine and other drugs associated with
this drug trafficking organization. Other forms of investigation were deployed to
further the investigation Quarles. This belief is supported through fixed
surveillance located near 715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia where
Quarles Jr. was known to be staying. Through fixed surveillance, your affiants
observed multiple individuals coming and going from the apartment, consistent
with the drug transactions. Further, on Sunday, February 13, 2022, while his
phone number 215-787-8632 was pinging (GPS location) in the immediate area
of 715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV, Quarles Jr. posted the following photo
in the “story” section of his Instagram account “__ramborich”:
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Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug investigations,
your affiants know that the term “trap” refers to the act of selling drugs or the
location from which one sells drugs. Therefore, based on the facts and
circumstances of this investigation, your affiants opine that Quarles Jr. was
using Jeffery Ancell’s residence in Clarksburg, WV as a location to sell drugs,
including methamphetamine. With the knowledge that Quarles Jr. was dropped
off in Clarksburg, WV and subsequent conversation between Ancell and Winans,
your affiants opine that Quarles Jr. was selling the methamphetamine and
possibly other drugs from Ancell’s house in Clarksburg, WV for Jhamir Winans
as part of the larger drug trafficking organization in which all three belong.
On February 15, 2022, Quarles Jr. returned home to the Philadelphia area
where your affiants opine that he met with Jhamir Winans at 4236 Pennsgrove
Street, Philadelphia. Refer to Winans Shipment #1 in this affidavit for complete
details.
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Winans/Ancell Conversation:
CALLS #65, 80, 94, 98, 100, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121,
123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 139, 144, 148, AND 176 ON DOCKET
38-7 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 17, 2022, BETWEEM 11:17 AM AND 8:57
PM, TEXT MESSAGES AND PHONE CALLS BETWEEN 304-844-9102, A
PHONE USED BY JEFFREY ANCELL, AND 215-275-6435, A PHONE USED BY
JHAMIR WINANS
Ancell (Call #65): “You still coming”
Call #80: Voice Message where Winans can be heard saying “answer bro” while
the phone is ringing.
Ancell (Call #94): “Yo”
Winans (Call #98): “Bring some manitol ?”
Ancell (Call #100): “U can”
Ancell (Call #105): “My phone is fucked up”
Ancell (Call #107): “Let me restart it”
Winans (Call #109): “Ok do you think it’ll sell a good amount?”
Winans (Call #111): “I’ll give it to you 20 a gram”
Ancell (Call #113): “It’s killing me havin this phone”
Ancell (Call #115): “Look at first I am gonna ease into selling it because I’m
afraid the ppl that buy it will cut the heck out of our
stuff and make it no good”
Winans (Call #117): “But that’ll be They problem and whoever they selling it
too because they still going to come to get our stuff”
Winans (Call #119): “And we’ll make money off both”
Ancell (Call #121): “Well not really because they middle man it to so the
thing is it will slo down the moving of the slo”
Ancell (Call #123): “I mean I’m gonna see how it goes because I feel like ppl
will try to go else where if what u have turns bad I mean
if it still sells t”
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Ancell (Call #125): “he same I will sell the hell out of it”
Ancell (Call #127): “I just wanna c how it works I sold a couple gs of it
pretty fast this last time”
Winans (Call #129): “Yeah we’ll just give them the choice to cut it”
Ancell (Call #131): “That’s cool like I said I will sell it to everyone at first”
Ancell (Call #133): “As long as it doesn’t slo down the sells I’m
game”
Winans (Call #135): “Ok bet”
Ancell (Call #139): “There must not be much around right now ppl been
blowing me up for 2 days”
Ancell (Call #144): “When u gonna be down”
Ancell (Call #148): “Let me know”
Ancell (Call #176): “U figure out when u coming back”
Based on their training, knowledge, and experience with drug
investigations, your affiants opine that the content of the call and text messages
transcribed above is related to the continued trafficking of drugs between
Winans, Quarles Jr., and Ancell. When Winans asks, “bring some manitol?” your
affiants believe Winans is referring to either cocaine or heroin/fentanyl, both of
which are drugs commonly cut with Mannitol, a diuretic. The two discuss how
it will sell in Clarksburg and how they will both make money as a result.
February 18, 2022 - Quarles Jr.’s Return to Clarksburg, WV
On Friday, February 18, 2022, pings associated with Quarles Jr. showed
that he was traveling toward Clarksburg, WV from the Philadelphia area. At
approximately 9:15PM, Quarles Jr. was observed by electronic surveillance
arriving in his maroon Dodge Charger bearing counterfeit PA registration
HLR7479 and then entering 715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV. At
approximately 10:23PM, electronic surveillance captured Quarles Jr. exiting the
residence and driving away. Pings associated with Quarles Jr.’s phone number
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215-787-8632 showed that Quarles Jr. traveled to the Pittsburgh, PA area where
he spent the night.
On Saturday, February 19, 2022, at approximately 1:00PM, Quarles and
his maroon Dodge Charger were observed arriving back at 715 ½ E. Pike Street,
where he entered carrying a bag. Quarles Jr. remained inside for several hours
and while inside, the residence experienced heavy foot traffic consistent with
drug transactions. The foot traffic was captured by electronic surveillance. At
approximately 5:28PM, Quarles Jr. was observed exiting 715 ½ E. Pike Street,
Clarksburg, WV, at which point ping (GPS coordinates) data from his phone
showed that he was traveling toward the Philadelphia area.
Social Media review of __ramborich
On February 19, 2022, an open-source social media review of Quarles Jr.’s
Instagram account (“__ramborich) showed a video posted on the account. The
video showed a vehicle traveling at approximately 157 mph. A police vehicle with
its emergency lights illuminated was seen in the vehicle’s rearview mirror and a
voice can be heard saying, “we ain’t stopping for no troopers.” Based on the video,
it is your affiants’ opinion that on Quarles Jr.’s return trip to Philadelphia a law
enforcement vehicle attempted to conduct a traffic stop on his vehicle, but
Quarles Jr. refused to stop. Further review of Quarles Instagram “stories” at the
time revealed that Quarles Jr. had just crossed the Susquehanna River near
Harrisburg, PA along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Therefore, your affiants believe
that the traffic stop was most likely initiated by the Pennsylvania State Police in
Dauphin County, PA.
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February 28, 2022 - Quarles Jr.’s Trip to Clarksburg, WV and Return
On Sunday, February 27, 2022, a review of Quarles Jr.’s Instagram
account __ramborich showed a story displaying a poll. The poll asked “ANYBODY
TRYNA TAKE THIS DRIVE TO VIRGINIA REAL QUICK” with a “Yes / No” voting
option. Based on past trips to West Virginia by Quarles Jr., your affiants
recognized this post as the precursor to a drug trafficking trip by Quarles Jr. to
West Virginia, which he often refers to as “Virginia”.
On Monday, February 28, 2022, at approximately 7:51PM, fixed
surveillance showed Quarles Jr. and a juvenile female arrive and park in Ancell’s
driveway. Quarles Jr. was operating the maroon Dodge Charger displaying the
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fictitious PA registration HLR7479. Quarles Jr. retrieved something from the
trunk and then carried the juvenile female inside Ancell’s apartment, located at
715 ½ East Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV.
At approximately 8:03PM, a male, identified as Jeffrey Ancell, arrived in
his silver Pontiac G6. Ancell exited the vehicle and entered the house.
At approximately 8:27PM, Quarles Jr. wearing a backpack and carrying
the juvenile female exited the house and returned to his vehicle. He placed the
backpack in the trunk and then exited the driveway at approximately 8:32PM.
Shortly after, a story appeared on the Quarles Jr.’s Instagram account
__ramborich. It was a picture of the Clarksburg Hardee’s restaurant with the
time “8:43PM.”
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A review of the fixed surveillance at 715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg after
Quarles Jr. left, showed regular foot traffic consistent with drug transactions, as
follows:
5. 9:23PM: An unknown white male arrived in a minivan and parked in the
driveway. He ascended the stairs and knocked on the window of 715 ½
East Pike Street. At approximately 9:25PM, he is let into the house. The
male exited the house at approximately 9:49PM and drove away.
6. 12:01AM on March 1, 2022: An unknown female arrived in a hatchback
sedan and parked in the driveway. She ascended the stairs and was
allowed inside by Jeffrey Ancell. The female exited at 12:07PM and drove
away.
7. 12:07AM on March 1, 2022: An unknown male arrived as a passenger in
a sedan. He knocked on the window and was let inside at 12:09AM. At
approximately 12:16AM, the male exited Ancell’s house. Ancell can be seen
walking the male out of the house.
8. 12:50PM on March 1, 2022: An unknown white male, wearing shorts,
arrived on foot. He knocked on the door and was let inside Ancell’s house.
At approximately 1:05PM, the male exited and Ancell can be seen at the
front door talking to the male.
9. 2:53PM on March 1, 2022: An unknown white male, wearing a tan jacket
and dark pants, arrived operating a blue Volkswagon hatchback. He
knocked on Ancell’s door and was let inside. At approximately 3:29PM, the
male exited and Ancell can be seen at the front door talking to the male.
Arrest of Second Customer of Ancell in Possession of Methamphetamine
During the week of February 28, 2022, members of the Clarksburg Police
Department in Clarksburg conducted a traffic stop of a suspected drug customer
who was observed making a short visit to Jeffrey Ancell’s residence located at
715 ½ E. Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV. During the stop, the subject turned over
methamphetamine to police that they stated they had just purchased from
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Jeffrey Ancell at his residence. The customer stated that in addition to
methamphetamine, Ancell had fentanyl available for sale. This supports your
affiants’ belief that the above transcribed text message conversations between
Ancell and Winans were related to the continued sale of methamphetamine, with
a new addition of heroin/fentanyl to be sold by Ancell via Winans and Quarles
Jr.
Summary of Quarles Jr.’s trip to West Virginia on February 28, 2022
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, coupled with
the facts and circumstances of this investigation and the surveillance described
above, including the suspected drug transactions which occurred shortly after
Quarles Jr. left, it is their opinion that this trip to West Virginia by Quarles Jr.
and the juvenile female was related to a drug transaction between Quarles Jr.
and Ancell.
ZACHARY SMITH
Ongoing Investigation into Zachary Smith
It should be noted that during October-November 2021, Upper Darby
Detective Sergeant (Narcotics) Kristine McAleer began an investigation into
Zachary Smith. Zachary Smith is the brother of Chase Smith who was arrested
in March 2021 for selling pounds of methamphetamine to an undercover
detective in Lower Merion.
Detective Sergeant McAleer’s investigation began when incoming images
into the Pennsylvania State Prison System were intercepted and flagged as
containing restricted content. The images were of Zachary Smith and large
amounts of US Currency and wrapped packages that based on their training,
knowledge, and experience, the affiants believe that this type of packaging, size,
and shape were consistent with the packaging of “racks” of heroin/fentanyl
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bundles. “Racks” of heroin/fentanyl are a quantity, commonly fifty (50), of
“bundles” of bags heroin/fentanyl and each “bundle” typically has 10-14 bags of
heroin/fentanyl.
Left – Image of Zachary Smith and a quantity of US Currency
Right – Quantity of packaged “racks”
Recorded prison calls were monitored between Pennsylvania State inmate
Markee Ruffin and Zachary Smith using telephone number 484-929-7202.
During the prison calls, Zachary Smith stated that he was looking for a new
“plug,” possibly looking to work with an unknown male “Eddie,” and visiting
Atlanta to talk “business.” Through their training, knowledge, and experience,
the affiants know that “plug” is a common drug slang term for source of supply
of narcotics.
Based on the images sent by Zachary Smith to the prison, the prison calls,
Zachary Smith’s phone number appearing in Baker’s historical call detail
records, and intercepted calls between Baker and this same phone number, it is
your affiants’ opinion that Zachary Smith is using phone number 484-929-7202
and is involved in the illegal trafficking of narcotics and linked to Tyrone Baker’s
criminal organization.
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ZACHARY SMITH DRUG DEAL ONE: FEBRUARY 26,
2022
During this investigation Zachary Smith was identified as a close associate
and sub-dealer of Tyrone Baker’s. Based on mutually associated addresses and
relatives according to the law enforcement database TLOxp, your affiants also
believe that Zachary Smith is related to Chase Smith, the sub-dealer of Baker
who was arrested in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, PA at the
beginning of this investigation.
CALL #5240 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 23, 2022 AT 7:19
PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE TO 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED BY ZACH
SMITH, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Smith: “Yeah just, just, yeah just call me tomorrow.”
Baker: “Yeah I’m gonna call I/A bro, but in the, for the main reason, the
main thing is I’m just waiting on these niggas to see if they gonna
bullshit or not so we just waiting on them for real.”
Smith: “Alright that sound like a, that sound like a bet.”
Baker: “Yeah, sound like a plan, we gonna figure it out. But the gas already
on the way and shit. It aint no zah, like so you can let niggas know
that the pounds is gonna be around for like, for like between 900
and eleven.”
Smith: “What, what, I’m saying, what’s, what’s the numbers we gone, what’s
the tab for us though?”
Baker: “What if niggas wanna like, if you wanna grab some jawns off me to
sell?”
Smith: “I might want, yeah, whatever, just tell, just let me know like”
Baker: “Yeah, ill give you the jawn for like 700 bro, I’ll give you the jawn for
like 7, 750.”
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Smith: “Alright, I gotta see what I/A I got, I think I got somebody that’s
gonna be able to fuck with it I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah it aint no, mind you it aint no zah though bro, it aint no zah
though, it’s some…”
Smith: “Black.”
Baker: “It’s some indoor, it’s some indoor depth, but it aint no like, it aint
no zah though but it’s some shit, it’s some gas.”
Smith: “You smoke it?”
Baker: “It’s gonna be, I got some, black no I don’t smoke bro, but it’s some
good shit though my man grow it, my man got his own farm, he
growing that shit but you know I aint, I don’t smoke. But I know, I
know weed though, cause I used to sell weed heavy and shit, like,
that’s how I know its far from bullshit but it’s not no zah though.
But it’s affordable, ya mean it’s good prices and shit 900 for a
pound? Ya hear me?”
Smith: “Imma wait till I see that shit.”
Baker: “Yo Zach.”
Smith: “Imma wait till, Imma wait I see it, till I get it in my face and we gone
take…”
Baker: “Yeah but uh, yeah that shit, Imma be back tomorrow. Once I land
tomorrow we gonna figure it out.”
Smith; “Just call me.”
Baker: “Alright I got you.”
Smith: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright”
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, it is their
opinion that during the above voice call, Baker and Smith were discussing the
sale of marijuana (“gas,” “weed,” “$900 for a pound”).
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CALL #5623 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 25, 2022, AT
4:35PM, OUTGOING CALL TO 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED BY ZACHARY
SMITH, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Baker: “Yea, that shit landed.”
Smith: “Alright, Imma pull up on you.”
Baker: “Alright S/L Bug got some of shit.”
Smith: “Imma call you.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “Alright.”
CALL #5589 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 25, 2022, AT
2:14PM, OUTGOING CALL TO 267-441-9042, A PHONE BELIEVED TO BE
USED BY KYREEA JOHNSON, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY
TYRONE BAKER
00:00 – 01:13
Baker: “I/A right now and see if the drugs came already. But I’m bout to
um, I’m bout to, I’m bout to make my way up there though for real
for real. Cause I don’t, I don’t gotta wait for this shit. I/A.”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “I/A”
U/M: “We can grab it if you right there on the block you lazy ass nigger.”
Baker: “That shit be weak sometimes.”
U/M: “You was right there. Why you don’t just walk up to him, ask him if
he got a package for you, for the address.”
Baker: “I could and shit. I I/A fuck yeah like.”
U/M: “Yo, you, you are not using your head mother fucker.”
Baker: “Where the fuck is he even at? I don’t see this nigger.”
U/M: “Hold, hold on.”
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U/M: “That said I/A on it going I/A. That’s like oh that might be a
situation. But. But, that’s why I use that box because that box make
it look like it’s food. Make it look like somebody just sent somebody
some food or like, like you got a order, like, like, like you got a order
from, from California and do like the food prep jawn and shit. Then
coming.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
U/M: “That’s why I was like you know what I’m gonna send this jawn down
there.”
Baker: “Mm hmm.”
U/M: “I/A”
Baker: “I/A. That shh, that shit said Kyree Thompson, I said oh yeah, we
lit.”
U/M: “(Laughs) That’s stupid.”
During the above call, it is your affiants’ opinion that Baker was describing
the packaging of the drugs sent from California as “make it look like it’s food.”
In this way, Baker felt like he was disguising the box to reduce the chance of any
suspicions by law enforcement or others that it actually contained drugs.
CALLS #5831, 6051, 6066, AND 6072 ON DOCKET 38-1 E.D. 2022
BETWEEN FEBRUARY 26, 2022 AN FEBRUARY 27, 2022, A SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 484-929-7202, A PHONE USED BY ZACHARY
SMITH, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE BAKER
Call #5831
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “You back, you back around yet?”
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Baker: “That’s crazy brah. I was just texting you. Well I just sent a text to
you saying I’m back in the city.”
Smith: “Uh.”
Baker: “Literally. Like literally. That’s crazy man.”
Smith: “Look like this, this. I got, I got a dilemma right?”
Baker: “What?”
Smith: “I got a half a pound I/A right now right.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Waiting for us, right? He gonna buy a half a pound for four, for uh,
for five hundred, you know what I mean?”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “But I’m about to go to Delaware with Ashley. I thought you was
gonna be back sooner.”
Baker: “Man, what, man. Fuck.”
Smith: “You feel like going to bus that jawn?”
Baker: “No. Nigger I don’t know this nigger. Who the fuck is.”
Smith: “I know. I, I, I don’t blame, I don’t blame. I/A. I don’t blame. Damn
bro. Where you, where you about to. I ain’t even, I ain’t even gonna
be I/A. I don’t know.”
Baker: “I don’t know. Shit I forgot I/A. I’m about to go to. I, I gotta go um,
I’m ah, I got, I’m about to go up northeast (burps) to grab this, my
bad, to grab this other uh, weight. And then I’m coming down to the
county.”
Smith: “Alright. Can you at least do me a favor though bro?”
Baker: “What?”
Smith: “Alright look man. I need you to separate. Alright, alright weigh out,
weigh, uh. First things first, can you weigh out a half a pound for
me? And get, put that together.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Alright.”
Baker: “I/A.”
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Smith: “Alright. Do that right. Weigh the half a jawn out for me. And then.”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “Can you give me a nice piece ah all three of em?”
Baker: “Hold up. Hold up. I got my nail salon cards in there too. It’s right
in Philly, come check it out. You come out there? You do. Ok come
through. Come to the black I/A. Yeah why, you want me to be there?
I’ll be there if you want me to be there. Alright I’ll be there. I/A you
can just hit me up on the Instagram. Alright. Hello.”
Smith: “You heard me?”
Baker: “Yeah she on my ass. She talking about you gonna be there. I’m like
yeah I’ll be there if you want me to be there.”
Smith: “Who?”
Baker: “Some, some bitch at the toll booth jawn. I be, I be, every time I see,
every time I see a bitch at the toll both jawn I give her the bread and
I give her my business cards and shit. I do that every time.”
Smith: “That’s a good jawn.”
Baker: “Yeah I do that every time. Every time, I cross, come back to Philly
and I got a um, bitch right there.
Smith: “I/A”
Baker: “She talking about you gonna be there. I’m like shit I’ll be there if
you want me to. (Laughs)”
Smith: “So what, your baby mom don’t work there no more?”
Baker: “Naw, naw, she don’t, she, she didn’t wanna work there. She, she
made, she decided that on her own. I ain’t never tell her to stop
working there. She just want, didn’t wanna work. I’m like alright,
fuck it.”
Smith: “Alright look though. I need you to separate the half a jawn for me
right. Then on top ah that, can you give me a nice piece of all three
so I could sample that shit out?”
Baker: “What you mean a nice piece ah all three? Like a, like a.”
Smith: “Like a, like a eighth nigger not no.”
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Baker: “Like a eighth for all three?”
Smith: “Whatever, whatever, whatever the damage is just. I’m gonna go all
in wit you bro. I’m bout to, I’m bout to advertise this shit like crazy
for you bro. Whatever, whatever loss you took, you know I’m help
you cover that shit.”
Baker: “I’m a give you the I/A. Only shit I got. But only players I got really
wit me, at my spot is, is ice cream cake. I probably got, got one gelato
or. Yeah one gelato and shit. All the other flavor jawns at Bub crib.”
Smith: “Alright that’s cool.”
Baker: “So. But it’s gonna be, it’s mainly gonna be the ice cream cake
because when I talked to my bull and I told him to send me more he
was like alright I’ll send you more but it’s mainly ice cream cake but
that’s cool because ice cream cake look.”
Smith: “Oh that’s cool. Whatever, whatever. That’s cool.”
Baker: “I/A the best anyway.”
Smith: “That’s cool man. I’m just saying like alright well give me a nice piece
ah the ice cream cake then saying like what the fuck. What you want
me give a bean for a hill. I/A.”
Baker: “Yeah I about to say I/A.”
Smith: “That’s what I’m saying like. I/A just so I could I/A like fuck I/A.
You know I’m saying, like. Whatever the, whatever, just know this
bro, I’m gonna go all in wit you bro. I’m gonna put, I’m gonna put
some paper up wit you. So I, if, if ten jawns cost four I/A, Imma buy
ten wit you if you gonna buy ten. And that way they gotta front us
another twenty. You know what I’m saying?”
Baker: “Yeah.”
Smith: “I’m just trying to build myself up to where as though when it come
time to go to the table with them, with them windows I could, I could
make the order heavier for you I/A. Cause, cause they, they was
talking.”
Baker: “I/A.”
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Smith: “We gotta buy at least six jawns or whatever they was saying.”
Baker: “Six.”
Smith: “So.”
Baker: “Yeah we I/A.”
Smith: “I don’t wanna miss my chance with that shit and I feel like I’m in
the zone right now where all I wanna do is, is hustle right now. All I
wanna do.”
Baker: “Nigger that’s what we is going twenty four seven. I/A.”
Smith: “Yeah but nigger you ain’t go through what I, you ain’t go through
what I went through nigger. Bro. I/A.”
Baker: “Oh my god bro you went through all this, you went through all this
shit cause you was acting scared ah Ashley.”
Smith: “Man this, I’ll call you back this her right here I’ll call you back.”
Baker: “Ha.”
Call #6051
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “Yo bro, uh I got to meet up with you I got come get a whole jawn
of that ice cream?”
Baker: “Alright, I’m right here in the county.”
Smith: “Alright send me your location real quick after the sixer’s over I’m
gonna come to you alright?”
Baker: “Alright that cool.”
Smith: “Alright bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6066
Baker: “Yo Zach.”
Smith: “I/A bro.”
Baker: “Alright that’s cool, I’m, I’m over here in the spot.”
Smith: “Alright.”
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Baker: “Alright.”
Call #6072
Baker: “Yo bro.”
Smith: “I’m outside, think it’s your Mom walking in the crib.”
Baker: “What car the BMW?”
Smith: “Yea.”
Baker: “Alright.”
Smith: “I’m outside bro.”
Baker: “Alright.”
It is your affiants’ opinion based on their training, knowledge, and
experience, coupled with the facts of this investigation that the above voice calls.
between Baker and Smith was in reference to the sale of marijuana by Baker and
Smith and their eventualwhere Baker gave Smith marijuana for sale.
Surveillance of Zachary Smith – February 27, 2022
At approximately 4:55PM, fixed surveillance observed Zachary Smith
arrive at Baker’s address driving a silver Ford Explorer, Pennsylvania
Registration LWE-8839. An inquiry made on registration shows it displayed on
a 2022 Ford Explorer registered to EAN Holding (Enterprise). A check through
Enterprise showed that the vehicle was a rental vehicle rented to Ashlee Harris
(Date of Birth: November 12, 1986), 250 Beverly Boulevard, Post Office Box 2632,
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Fixed surveillance observed Baker exit his
residence. Detective Stanley observed Baker place what looked like a duffel bag
in the trunk of his Dodge. Baker then walked to the passenger side of the Ford
Explorer for a short period of time and then returned to his residence. While
standing at the open passenger door of Smith’s vehicle, Baker could be seen on
fixed surveillance handing Smith what appeared to be a vacuum-sealed bag
consistent with a bag of marijuana. Smith left Baker’s residence driving the Ford
Explorer.
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It should be noted that during the drug deal facilitated by Baker and
delivered by Zachary Smith to Robert Smarra Jr. on February 4, 2022, at the
Chickie and Pete’s in Philadelphia, Smith was operating a silver Ford Explorer
which matched the vehicle he operated on February 27, 2022.
Surveillance followed Smith as he departed from Baker’s residence. At
5:27PM, Detective Vinter observed a black male get into Smith’s vehicle at 3868
Poplar Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Due to heavy traffic and mobile
surveillance, it is unknown if the black male passenger exited Smith’s vehicle.
After a short period of time, Smith’s vehicle left the area. At 5:41PM, Detective
Daywalt observed Smith exit his vehicle and enter a residence, located at 4804
N. Warnock Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Based on your affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience, including the
calls between Baker and Smith, it is their opinion that Smith received a quantity
of marijuana from Baker. Smith then met with the unknown male on Poplar
Street, which your affiants opine was consistent with a drug transaction between
Smith and the unknown male.
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CASHAPP RECORDS
On March 4, 2022, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge
Virgil B. Walker signed sealed search warrants and non-disclosure orders for
some of the CashApp CashTags identified during this investigaton for records
from March 1, 2021, through March 4, 2022. It should be noted that payments
identified below are not all inclusive. These are only the CashApp Payments, they
do not include money sent via other payment platforms like Zelle or shipped
through UPS, FedEx, and USPS. The following CashApp results are of note:
$BOLIVAR55 was a verified CashApp account belonging to Esther Bolivar, Ricky
Evans’ mother, with phone number 323-428-0768 and addresss 3112 67th
Street, Los Angeles. Bolivar’s CashApp account was linked to JPMorgan Chase
Bank. A history of the transactions on Bolivar’s account showed total payments
from Joshua Quiles ($2,550), Nini Claudio ($2,550), Tyrone Baker ($4,100), and
Ricky Evans ($24,979).
$CHASEBENGI was a verified CashApp account belonging to Joshua Quiles with
phone number 267-808-0063 and email address
jandccontracting16@gmail.com15. Quiles’ CashApp account was linked to Wells
Fargo Bank, Police & Fire Credit Union, Empower Federal Credit Union, and US
Bank. A history of the transactions on Quiles’ account showed total payments
from Quiles to accounts (Ricky - $9,271, Esther Bolivar - $2,550) associated with
Ricky Evans was $11,821, including a $2,550 payment on February 28, 2022.
The total payments from Tyrone Baker (Otm Black) to Joshua Quiles was $2,880,
including a $1,800 payment on February 28, 2022. These payments are believed
by your affiants related to the purchase of methamphetamine by Joshua Quiles
15 It should be noted that this email address was the email address associated with the subscriber information for phone number 610-934-2154, as shown in this investigation to be used by Joshua Quiles.
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from Ricky Evans and the sale of methamphetamine by Joshua Quiles to Tyrone
Baker.
$EGYPTIMAAN4 was a verified CashApp account belonging to Shakeem
Johnson with date of birth and address 2649 S. Felton Street, Philadelphia
matching the information on his Pennsylvania driver’s license. Johnson’s
CashApp account was linked to US Bank National Association.
$NKYLYNN was a verified CashApp account belonging to Nineska “Nini” Claudio,
Joshua Quiles live-in girlfriend, with phone number 267-945-1121. Claudio’s
CashApp account was linked to a Sandander Bank card ending in 5809. The
following CashApp transactions were relevant to this investigation and believed
by your affiants related to the purchase of methamphetamine by Joshua Quiles
from Ricky Evans. A history of the transactions on Claudio’s account showed
total payments to accounts (Ricky - $2,650, Esther Bolivar - $2,500) associated
with Ricky Evans was $5,150, including $2,500 payments on February 16, 2022
and March 7, 2022.
$OTMBLACK2155 was a verified CashApp account belonging to Tyrone Baker
with phone number 215-980-1764. Baker’s CashApp account was linked to
Santander Bank and MetaBank. A history of the transactions on Baker’s account
showed total payments from Baker to accounts (Ricky - $35,701, Esther Bolivar
- $6,600) associated with Ricky Evans was $42,301. The total payments from
customer/sub-dealers identified in this affidavit were David Cronauer $1,000;
Samir Parrish-Starr $1,810; Linda Schmids $110; Robert Smarra Jr. $4,625;
and Maurice Jiggetts $950. The total payment from Baker to Joshua Quiles’
CashApp was $2,880.
$SWAGGK60 was a verified CashApp account belonging to Ricky Evans with
associated phone numbers 424-646-1314 and 323-391-9216 and associated
addresses of 12562 Brookshire Avenue, Apt. 2, Downey, CA, 3112 W. 67th Street,
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Los Angeles, CA, and 548 South Spring Street, B5, Los Angeles, CA. Evans’
CashApp account was linked to Bank of America. A history of the transactions
on Evans’ account showed total receipts from, the accounts of and associated
with, Joshua Quiles ($9,161), Joseph Perez ($1,290), Shakeem Johnson
($3,421), including $1,900 and $120 payments on Feburary 22, 2022, Shionna
Campbell ($4,700), Geovanny Ruiz ($568), Jhamir Winans ($4,900), Nini Claudio
($2,650), Tyrone Baker ($35,701), Daniel Allen ($2,500), and Trivinia Quintana
($9,533). Evans’ account showed total payments to “Manuel Reveles” of $34,653.
SUMMARY OF CASHAPP RESULTS
Based on the above review of CashApp accounts related to Joshua Quiles,
Tyrone Baker, Esther Bolivar, and Ricky Evans, it is your affiants’ opinion that
multiple payments were made via CashApp to further this organizations’ drug
trafficking activities. In addition, it should be noted that Ricky Evans received
Cashapp payments16 totaling $86,184 from March 2021 through March 2022
from members of this drug trafficking organization, as follows:
Cashapp accounts
associated with:
Payments to CashApp
accounts associated
with Ricky Evans
Joshua Quiles $18,829
Tyrone Baker $54,334
Jhamir Winans $4,900
Shakeem Johnson $8,121
Total $86,184
16 CashApp is only one payment facility that this group uses and this amount should not be considered all-inclusive, it is actually just a fraction of the dollar amount your affiants opine has been exchanged by this group.
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DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION
(EVANS, QUILES, WINANS, BAKER,
JOHNSON)
On February 17, 2022, while monitoring the court ordered wire intercept,
as detailed and explained later in this affidavit, on Docket 38-5 E.D. 2022, a call
between Ricky Evans and a male, believed to be Manual “Manny” Reveles, was
intercepted. During the call, Evans explained the drug trafficking conspiracy
between Evans, Joshua Quiles aka “Chase,” Jhamir Winans aka “Mir,” Tyrone
Baker aka “Black,” and Shakeem Johnson aka “Papi Buhl.”
CALL #896 ON DOCKET 38-5 E.D. 2022 ON FEBRUARY 17, 2022, AT 7:55
PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 424-559-9922, A PHONE
ASSOCIATED WITH MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, TO 424-744-2079, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Evans: “Yo.”
Manny: “Yo you playing games man.”
Evans: “You said what boss?”
Manny: “Said yall playing games.”
Evans: “Yeah I’ve been sleep all day waiting on a nigga to send the fucking
money bro.”
Manny: “(Laughing) Still?”
Evans: “Still, like, I been texting the nigga, like, nigga you know how early I
was up. Nigga I was way in the valley when you called me.”
Manny: “Yeah I’ve been up since 6 I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah nigga I was up early bro, since uh six, six or seven.”
Manny: “I/A”
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Evans: “But I was waiting, I been waiting on a nigga to send the money bro
that nigga still aint send it. I don’t know if he stupid or not, but he
still know he got one brick over here. That’s the reason why he aint
made no move yet, but I know he gonna make the move cause he
like I still want four or five before you even send me that one so it
can all come together.”
Manny: “Yeah he’s like not trying to waste a trip huh?”
Evans: “Yeah he don’t want to waste a trip for just one so he like I’m like
yeah, you right but I’m like shit how long you gonna take to send
the fucking money.”
Manny: “Yeahh, I picked em up thinking that I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah he said he said give me the five, I’m just like bro I’m just
waiting on the money, like just send the fucking money.”
Manny: “Yeah.”
Evans: “I need the money right now, but nigga just send the fucking money
right now.”
Manny: “Yeah nigga I/A.”
Evans: “And by the time he send it, and even if he send it tomorrow, it still
not gonna be out til Monday. So it’s like I, I, I, don’t know if he wanna
wait till, try to wait till Monday type shit but then Chase shit come
Saturday, they gonna be, Chase sending right back out for four or
five and he’s sending out for five so that’s ten in total but it’s just
the fact of, you get what I’m saying?”
Manny: “Yeah.”
Evans: “I owe, I owe Papi Buhl a whole one now because I spent that nigga
money yesterday.”
Manny: “Yeah, I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah you get what I’m saying, I sent, cause I sent Chase the one
that he been having here for like a whole week.”
Manny: “Yeah I know, I know that yeah, yeah.”
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Evans: “The fuck Imma sit here and do with it nigga, Imma just spend the
money for no reason and then not you know. And why I need it right
now too, I was like man, fuck that, let me just spend this nigga
money I’ll get it back, but I know Imma get it back but its just like
bro.”
Manny: “Yeah you’ll get it back.”
Evans: “And, Mirr, naw, but you know Mirr, everybody’s coming at one time
so that’s perfect that they all aligning at the perfect timing.
Everybody was like, like, scheduled out, like, like you know like,
alright, three days, or two days, you gotta wait on this, and two days
you gotta wait on that, and two days, I got everybody where…I, I, I,
been got it, I been got it to where everybody is coming now, on
Monday, starting Monday and Tuesday I got everybody coming
together. Everybody, Black said he coming, Black, Chase, Papi Buhl,
and uhh, who else, who else and Mirr.”
Manny: “Mirr.”
Evans: “So they all sending out for like five, five, five, and we probably got
a good dub next week for sure. And that’s a hundred percent.”
Manny: “Yeah I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah, that’s a 100 percent, that’s the reason why I did everybody
packaged like that on the last go around so they could all keep up.
So everybody is off deck with the two and one here and three here
and give here and you get what I’m saying, that shit too much driving
back and forth bro.”
Manny: “For that little one, two shit eh?”
Evans: “Yeah. And then that’s no money nigga that’s why I’m like bro,
everybody need to come at one fuckin’ time. I need the money all
together. I don’t need the money spaced out ‘cause I spend money
through the…process…”
Manny: “Through the space, yeah…”
Evans: “Yeah… and nigga got expenses so it’s like…”
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Manny: “I get you, yeah too, me too, like yeah I get it.”
Evans: “Yeah it’s not gonna make sense for everybody to keep… yeah…”
Manny: “Like you not gonna I/A.”
Evans: “For, like how I, I just gave ya the two hundred yesterday?”
Manny: “I/A”
Evans: “How I gave… you get what I’m saying?”
Manny: “You know?”
Evans: “But look, how I gave you that two hundred yesterday. Another
expense, you get what I’m saying? Just to, just to chip out. And,
and I’m pretty sure you didn’t even do nothing… half the shit you
really wanted to do with it ‘cause its just change. You like, oh well
this change. You get what I’m saying?”
Manny: “Nigga seriously I got forty dollars in my pocket now I/A.”
Evans: “You get what I’m saying? This is, this is what I’m talking about
right here Manny. That shit really like trip me out yesterday how
much I got paid yesterday. A hundred bucks, two hundred bucks.”
Manny: “Yeah.”
Evans: “You get what I’m saying for real for real.”
Manny: “I/A”
Evans: “I only got paid two hundred bucks just like you (laughs) but I still
have to pay the rest of the, the going to my rent nigga. So I already
know how that shit go, like only, I was only able to keep like two
hundred bucks for real.”
Manny: “You know this, you know this month’s short too man. Next week’s
already rent again.”
Evans: “You know that’s what I’m saying. And I’m still on this month’s
rent nigga.”
Manny: “Man.”
Evans: “Nigga I’m doing bad. But I’m doing bad. But uh like, this shit is
really killing me. That’s why I just scheduled everybody’s shit at
one time so everybody could come at one time. Like Friday they-
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everybody getting they package. Tomorrow everybody getting they
packages. Which is cool. But now Monday, starting Monday
everybody bout to hit my phone. Like Chase just said he want to
send out again but he’d rather send out for Monday to Tuesday.
Uh, for Monday for Tuesday so he can try to get it sent out on
Monday. But everybody else… Black just called me this morning
he just said he’s gonna send out. And Papi Buhl he want to send
out his five… whenever he do send out his five is gonna be around
the same time you get me?”
Manny: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Then umm I got uh uh what what’s his name? Umm who was I
just saying?”
Manny: “Ohh Mirr dumbass.”
Evans: “Oh Mirr. Man that’s four, that’s four niggas right there. I know
each one of them niggas coppin’ five so, if not five or better.”
Manny: “Uh huh five.”
Evans: “Yeah.”
Manny: “I/A”
Evans: “I mean that’s all I/A.”
Manny: “I’m trying to send, I’m trying to send one out myself to one of my
boys.”
Evans: “Man I was just about to tell you, man bro I was about to tell you
why you sittin’ on that why wouldn’t just make the money with
Chase right now why you, why he’s sending back out? He could
have gave me the sixteen for it.”
Manny: “Fuck.”
Evans: “At least one perro. Like, at least so we can have three hundred
bucks each nigga.”
Manny: “Shit I’m trying to sell on for three G’s nigga.”
Evans: “Yeah but I’m just saying. It was tough just to come back why we
sitting here fucking off money nigga I mean why you just sitting on
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it. Nigga we could have just made a cent I/A there’s another two
dollars sent today.”
Manny: “Yeah I know.”
Evans: “If I had an extra one I would have did that for him right now bro.
If I would have bought that two I would have sent that nigga uh
Papi Buhl shit right now to get my quick flip.”
Manny: “You said, you said you wann flip this boy you fucked up.”
Evans: “Yeah but why would I flip the money if the money here right now
and I could just get the money. You get me? Even if it ain’t, well
even if, even if it’s just twelve hundred bucks I still took it cause
this niggas here. I ain’t gonna wait on the extra four hundred but
still its just like we got…I was gonna do that instead but I was like
I wasn’t gonna wait, I wouldn’t want to wait that long for that till
Monday or Tuesday just to be getting my money back. I didn’t even
want to wait.”
Manny: “Fuck I/A.”
Evans: “That’s why I was like man, I don’t even know what the fuck to do.
I just need some money right now to just flip it.”
Manny: “What’s up with Dre, you haven’t checked in with him?”
Evans: “Yeah I checked in with that nigga this morning. I’m still waiting
him, him to uh give me a call but…”
Manny: “Oh, shit.”
Evans: “And I met some niggas on Super Bowl weekend so I was hoping
them niggas call to see what’s up. But them niggas are still I/A.”
Manny: (Laughs)
Evans: “I tried to get some new clientele for the, for the Super Bowl
weekend. That’s what I was really scouting for. Fuck the Super
Bowl. All the niggas that was out here for the Super Bowl spending
that forty-four hundred for a ticket.”
Manny: “Dumbasses.”
Evans: (Laughs)
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Manny: “Hey yo, I think, I think, I think my chiropractor calling. Let me
call you back right now.”
Evans: “Alright, go ahead.”
Based on the affiants’ training, knowledge, and experience coupled with
the facts of this investigation and the above intercepted call, it is their opinion
that Evans was conspiring to ship packages of controlled substances to his
Philadelphia area customer base, which is made up of Joshua Quiles (Chase),
Jhamir Winans (Mirr), Tyrone Baker (Black), and Shakeem Johnson (Papi Buhl).
Your affiants believe and have shown through this affidavit of probable cause
that Evans is the supply arm of the organization, shipping bulk quantities of
drugs to Quiles, Winans, Baker, and Johnson, who then distribute those drugs
to their respective sub-dealers and other customers. Your affiants have shown
that while Quiles, Baker, Winans, and Johnson often sell their drugs
independently of one another, there are times where they worked together to
fulfil orders of each other’s customers, ensuring that the drug trafficking
business of the organization supplied by Evans operates smoothly.
In another call between Evans and an unknown female, Evans discussed
losing forty (40) “bricks,” believed to refer to the 40-pound HSI seizure in
December 2021. Evans continued by stating that the loss was a loss of eighty-
nine or ninety thousand dollars worth, which your affiants believe refered to the
resale value of the 40-pounds of methamphetamine seized by HSI during this
investigation.
CALL #1960 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 8, 2022 AT 7:57PM,
AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 424-287-7388 FROM 424-223-3050, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
14:14 – 18:57
Evans: “…way it happens…”
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U/F: “Right, one or the other.”
Evans: “That shit like a… yeah it’s like a flip of a quarter. If something
happened right now, it means that I’m fucked for another couple
weeks. Nah I ain’t gonna say that ‘cause I really, I really did some
shit today to make, to make an investment for…”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “For the I/A future, for, for a lot of shit for everybody. ‘Cause I’m
like y’all not looking at the bigger picture but… these niggas is
broke where I’m sending my shit too because we lost forty bricks
bro. That’s like eighty-nine… ninety thousand.”
U/F: “Damn.”
Evans: “You get what I’m saying? I lost forty bricks cuz. And then on…
including that I lose an additional twelve bricks. So that’s like
additional one hundred twenty thousand right there down the
drain Enika. And I look to er’body I’m like damn ‘cuz nobody can
pick they self up but me. I picking er’body up and I’m over here
sitting there telling them, I’m like bro look hey ‘cuz we gonna get
right back to the top. I know how this shit go like you know we all
fall we all- er’body fell and, and er’body sitting here asking me to
help ‘em like… on a different note. They like, hey bro can you like
you know like budget with me with the price because you know I
gotta get it out here and… and all this type of shit. And I’m like,
you know what bro? I’mma budget with you because guess what? I
know that shit feel to be at the bottom and I/A so you gotta pick
yourself back up.”
U/F: “Uh huh.”
Evans: “And even if I/A you gotta pick yourself back up you need help bro.
Like, and I know y’all be scared to ask for help because they from
Philly so it’s different. Like, they in another world like, you feel
me?”
U/F: “Yeah.”
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Evans: “Like, compared to what we live in. And they making way more
money than us and they struggling. And, and while they struggling
its not like how our struggle is. Nigga we ain’t even got two
hundred dollars in our pocket.”
U/F: “Right.”
Evans: “These niggas getting five thousand dollars talking about they
struggling so this is the difference.”
U/F: “Wow.”
Evans: “And I be telling them like you know what bro? I don’t make as
much as y’all, I don’t even hate on y’all, I don’t even count you out
of pocket.”
U/F: “Right.”
Evans: “But at the same time its like when I’m helping y’all and then-then
y’all try to give me the short end of the stick of telling me like I
gotta pay for my sending and, and, and that something don’t go
through that my shit get canceled, my payment get canceled
because you niggas didn’t want to pay because something didn’t go
on. Like, something good didn’t go on y’all side of the end of the
bargain. You get me?”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “And then when they, when it get to they side and then they don’t
pay for it, I’m fucked out of my money out of six, seven hundred
dollars I just sat here and sent all y’all packages out and y’all not
paying me.”
U/F: “Right.”
Evans: “And I’m like see I’m not, I’m like, I don’t get mad and take a loss
and cry about it, nah I just get back up on my feet bro ‘cause I
know I’m the plug. If I- if y’all didn’t have a plug guess what? Y’all
wouldn’t be on y’all feet right now I swear to god.”
U/F: “Right.”
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Evans: “That’s how I kept it consistent with the three years bro y’all got
me into my place. Y’all got me into this, y’all got me into that. But
see y’all got a restaurant. You- hold up Enika. We about to take a
couple trips out there right?”
U/F: “Uh huh.”
Evans: “I’m about to show to you what these niggas accomplish all off of
me. And the niggas will tell you like bro I’m grateful that you here.
Like, these niggas praise me like ‘oh thank you for being here’ type
shit like just because you’re here like and I’m like man I don’t give
a fuck about none of that… give me my money I’m gone.”
U/F: (laughs)
Evans: (laughs) Give me my money I’m gone.”
U/F: “I/A mmm.”
Evans: “I ain’t got nothing to say to you niggas but I said wait till we go
out there. Well we about to take a couple trips though.”
U/F: “I’m down.”
Evans: “And I’mma send, yeah but I’mma send some more money
tomorrow though when I get some more money I’mma send you
some more tomorrow on CashApp.”
U/F: “Alright I appreciate it. Thank you best friend.”
Evans: “Yeah umm somebody trying to send me two hundred dollars right
now Enika right?”
U/F: “Mmm hmm.”
Evans: “I’ll probably need you to get it and send it to me.”
U/F: “Ok. Well how they gonna send it?”
Evans: “Well I need to pay that eighty dollars off to another nigga who I
just worked for (laughs).”
U/F: “Hey how they gonna send it though? Through CashApp?”
Evans: “Umm through CashApp. Hopefully it go through on yours ‘cause it
didn’t go through on mines.”
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U/F: “Oh that’s cool. Just give it to- give ‘em my I/A I can do it right
now. I just, jus- is it gonna be before I start driving like right now?
‘Cause I’m wait- I’m just sitting here waiting for the kids to I/A.”
Evans: “Yeah hold on, hold on let me see. Umm what’s the name of your
CashApp ‘cause I put the dollar sign first and then what?”
U/F: “Oh uh king, k-i-n-g-z-i-c-o-o-l.”
Evans: “c-o-o-l.”
U/F: “For shitty.”
Evans: “Okay, kingzicool”
U/F: “Yeah and it should pop up I/A should be in the picture.”
Evans: “Alright, I don’t see, let me see I/A (mumbling) I’m not seeing, I’m
see one for Zedra but I don’t know if it went through or we
cancelled.”
Based on the above calls, your affiants’ training, knowledge, and
experience, it is your affiants’ opinion that Evans was discussing his drug
trafficking organization with the unknown female. During the call, Evans
discussed the 40-pound loss and how he’s helping his customers get back on
their feet. Evans continued by talking about the restaurant that someone owned,
believed by your affiants to refer to Shakeem Johnson’s restaurant (Greedy’s)
located at 51st and Market Street, in Philadelphia. Evans then stated that he’s
not looking for praise from his “Philly” customers, he just wanted his money from
them.
CALL #2220 ON DOCKET 38-9 E.D. 2022 ON MARCH 9, 2022, AT 8:49PM,
AN INCOMING PHONE CALL TO 424-287-7388 FROM 424-223-3050, A
PHONE USED BY RICKY EVANS
Non-pertinent conversation until 00:31 in the call
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Evans: “The nigger who was supposed to send me my money today didn't
send it. So I'm sitting there up for this nigger. But I'm like damn so
I got a hangover.”
U/F: “Yeah that's.”
Evans: “And then I still gotta go see, I still have to go send some shit out
today I/A.”
Non-pertinent conversation until 10:40 in the call
Evans: “Alright.”
U/F: “But look that's what I'm saying. You see, yesterday you just gave
me that money and I didn't have shit. And you see how God turned
around for you and looked out for your right after that?”
Evans: “Yeah.”
U/F: “Turned around and looked out for you to make right after that.”
Evans: “I/A and I'm sitting here like damn fuck eighty dollars cuz. I can't
even ask nobody for no eighty dollars. The eighty dollars ain't even
gonna add up to what I need to spend I/A. You hear me? To buy
everything you need tobuy everything I need to buy. My nigger cut,
cutting me some slack right now. So he helping me out and, and at
the same time I cut, like I tell cuz, I'm helping you out at the same
time bro because our orders been like at two, at a week. Like I
been on a minimum of two a week and that's really like five
hundred dollars that I can't last within a week cause I spend
money so fast. I live in downtown LA. Everything cost.”
U/F: “Exactly.”
Evans: “So, I'm sitting here like damn cuz I, I literally have zero dollars. I, I
went out last night. We went out, uh we went to I/A last night. I
bought a bottle. Forty dollars gone. I had a hundred dollars in my
pocket cause I put fifty in my girl tank. I'm like here, here goes fifty
dollars for you fill your tank up. Do this, do that, what, whatever.
Ever money I got in my pocket right? And I sent you eighty. I'm like
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oh, alright. I'll take care of everything that I can try to take care of.
You feel me?”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “God trying to throw and hit my dumb ass with four racks today.
I'm like whew. Thank you. Jesus.”
U/F: “That's right.”
Evans: “I got, I got my nigger, I got my nigger on his way right now to
come. So I didn't see no money today cause I, I was already putting
everything in motion for the, uh, for next week.”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “To have some bread. I'm happy you called me and told me
everything you told me for real, for real, cause I was feeling bad
today and I ain't even call you.”
U/F: “Yeah. I, nah, I uh, I ended up getting the uh, cause I guess like I,
I'm not on the county no more. But I guess they extended some
shit and now I looked at my EBT card, I had all this I/A from the
county.”
Non-pertinent conversation until 14:20 in the call
Evans: “And not just my twenty thousand that's included with my own
money right. These niggers, they need to put up they own bread
too so they want us to travel back with they bread and our bread.”
U/F: “Oh.”
Evans: “You get what I'm saying?”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “So that next, that following week cuz, that's when I'm trying to
bang. When I'm, when I'm up at eighteen thousand or nineteen
thousand, that's when I'm trying to go for, go get all that money
secured.”
U/F: “Oh ok. That makes sense.”
Evans: “Cause I don't wanna do no petty shit to go out there, fly for ten
thousand. That ain't shit.”
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U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “But it was gonna be, cause they put that on my account every
goddamn day. Three thousand here, five thousand here, six
thousand here. Hey, and that been going on for weeks man. I'm
like bro I, we all know you get tired of this shit. Like ya'll not going,
ya'll not ready to travel. They like nah bro our orders ain't up like
that right now cause this shit moving slow. And that, it's not even
that they moving slow, it's like I/A well they spending they money
on bullshit.”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “Now they to they lowest point in time right now. That's what I
have to tell my nigger, I said bro you know my niggers was at they
lowest point in time right now where anything I give 'em extra right
now they are like, nigger feigning for it. They like yeah bro I'll give
you this much, I do this and like yeah bro if you just send me a
extra one so I could get up. Like, you know they looking for my
help too at the same time so I know they really broke.”
U/F: “Right.”
Evans: “And I/A I keep buying two every week and ya'll paying rent and
ya'll doing nothing. And, and they all live fancy. They all live
fucking flying fancy. My nigger got a nail shop. The other one got a
fucking um, a whole restaurant. Another nigger got a nightclub.
I'm like, you niggers is doing it out there. But how ya'll living this
fancy lifestyle and ya'll ain't buying everything up. But see, one
nigger branched off from us and he started doing his own thing. He
started getting his own Mexican out here to start sending him his
own shit. So he got his little shit set up now. But uh, everybody
around cuz didn't. And they like, he like, ya'll not about to branch
off of me now.”
U/F: “Right.”
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Evans: “Type shit. So he fucked, he fucked them niggers over but he still
eh, end up having to come to me again. He like bro, I need you now
cause my niggers need you. Like some of my niggers need you, like
they, they like that number that you got. And I'm like yeah I know.
Yeah them niggers ain't gonna go no where. I know.”
U/F: “Shut the fuck up.”
Evans: “That's what I said, money gonna keep coming in, keep calling this
mother fucking phone. Cause every phone I done switch to nigger
you know how much money I made off each phone. (Laughs) A
hundred dollars a phone every month cause.”
U/F: “Wow.”
Evans: “I/A every month. I/A like seven, ten, ten thousand off ah each
phone like dam cuz I'm waiting.”
U/F: “Yup.”
Evans: “But I'm, now, now but I'm happy that um, I see to my life vision.
Member I/A I was talking about the vision. Like nigger nobody
seen my vision. My mama really seen it cause she see how much
money I make in her account.”
U/F: “Yeah.”
Evans: “So she, she like poppa I got four thousand. What can you do with
it right now?”
U/F: “Right now. Let's get it going. Mom's like.”
Evans: “Yeah she like, she's like come pick it up. How long you gonna take
to come pick up the money? Let's go.”
U/F: (Laughs)
Evans: “I wanna make this money right now. They only give me two
thousand for my tax, I need money. I'm like I/A.”
U/F: “That's good. Mother fucker.”
Evans: “She's a mother fucker boy. I said if my mama ever I/A out here in
the streets you know I/A shit I do.”
U/F: “Yeah.”
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Evans: “You, I said yeah your son the next Pablo Escobar. Mama don't
you.”
U/F: “I love Esther. That's on everything. She be like.”
Evans: “She's a fucking gangster cuz.”
End of pertinent conversation
During the above voice call, Evans discussed his customer base and the
lavish lifestyles they maintain. Your affiants opine that Evans was referring to
the Philadelphia area organization, including Joshua Quiles, Tyrone Baker, and
Jhamir Winans. Evans’ stated that one has a nail shop, believed to refer to
Baker’s nail salon in Kensington; one has a restaurant, believed to refer to
Johnson’s restaurant in Philadelphia; and one has a nightclub, believed to refer
to Winans’ nightclub located on Westmoreland Street in Philadelphia. Evans
further discussed that one of his customers branched off and found his “own
mexican out here.” Your affiants opine that this was referring to Winans and the
packages that were identified as coming from the Yorba Linda area of California.
Evans also stated that his customers keep coming back to him due to his pricing.
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ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
Your affiants, Detective Andrew Rook and Michael Laverty, respectfully
requests the issuance of Arrest Warrants for the above individuals, charging
them with the specified crimes they are culpable for as cited in this affidavit of
probable cause and charges that are also specified in their Criminal Complaints.
SUMMATION
Through this investigation the affiants have shown that this drug
trafficking organization was responsible for shipping large quantites of
methamphetamine from California to Montgomery County and the surrounding
areas. As a result of this year-long investigation, your affiants opine that this
drug trafficking organization was responsible for receiving and then distributing
approximately eight-hundred (800) pounds of methamphetamine since 2020,
which contributed to the flooding of methamphetamine throughout Montgomery
County and the surrounding areas.
Therefore, the facts in this Affidavit of Probable Cause set forth the ongoing
criminal conspiracy and corrupt organization of Ricky Evans, Joshua Quiles,
Jhamir Winans, Tyrone Baker, Shakeem Johnson, Richard Quarles Jr., Robert
Smarra Jr., Daniel Allen, Jeffrey Ancell, their associates and others known and
yet unknown. They have committed offenses including, but not limited to, their
involvement in a Corrupt Organization (18 Pa. C.S.A. Section 911); the
Manufacture, Deliver, and/or Possession with the Intent to Deliver a Controlled
Substance (35 Pa. P.S. Section 780-113 30); Knowingly and/or Intentional
Possession of a Controlled Substances (35 Pa. P.S. Section 780-113 16); Criminal
Conspiracy (18 Pa. C.S.A., Section 903); Dealing in Proceeds of Unlawful
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