Affidavit of Probable Cause # 2021-0866 i

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

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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.

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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.


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



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



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



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Mailed from UPS Store at 1360 S. Figueroa Street, Suite D,

Los Angeles, CA


Mailed from UPS Store at 1360 S. Figueroa Street, Suite D,

Los Angeles, CA


Mailed from UPS Store at 6500 Washington Blvd. Montebella,

CA


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.”


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]


answer]


answer]

Baker (3:25PM): “Yo bro you good” – [Outgoing text (#77) to

213-513-9010]


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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answer]


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.”


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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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.”



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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.”


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.”


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.”



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.


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?”


Smith: “Yeah, you gonna...”


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.”


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)


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.


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.”



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.



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.”


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.”



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 (#1872): Attempted Text Message – Baker “Yo pick up the phone”


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-



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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.”


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.”


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


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.”


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-


(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.



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.”


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.”




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:


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.”



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.”



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.”


Cain: “Alright.”


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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.”



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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.


6:08PM, OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-880-8593, A PHONE USED BY


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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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.”


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.


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


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.”


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:



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!”


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


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.


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.”


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.


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.


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 [email protected]. 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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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.”


Evans: “But it ain’t gonna be there ‘til Friday. So, that’s on them.”

Winans: “Alright. I’ll let him know”



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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”


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.


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 [email protected] 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”


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.


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.


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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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…”


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

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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.”


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.”



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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.”


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.”



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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.”

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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...”


U/M: “Call back and I’m like why does he keep calling me like...”


U/M: “and that’s just it, it’s from Jersey like...”


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.”


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.”


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”


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”


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”


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.”




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.”


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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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


Fracis Mire 1025 Riverside Dr

5.1



2



6.1



6.6



11.4

1/14/2022 288582406327 751 S Weir Canyon Rd

Ste 157 Anaheim Hills CA


11.3



2



17.4


Francine Mire 1026 Riverside Dr

11.1



4.5



3.9



4



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 #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”


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?”



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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.”


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.”


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”


Call #4348



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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.”



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.”






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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-


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


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


EVANS’ COMMUNICATIONS WITH PHONE NUMBERS 215-436-8669 AND

610-934-2154, PHONE NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH JOSHUA QUILES


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.”


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.”


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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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.”


U/F: “Bye.”


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 #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”


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.”


U/F: “Just let me know.”


U/F: “Alright.”


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.


6:51PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 424-559-9922, A PHONE

ASSOCIATED WITH MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, FROM 424-744-2079, A


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.”



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 #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”


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.


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.”


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


Evans (Call #815): “Send Addy bro”

Evans (Call #817): “I’m on my way there now and 150”

Evans (Call #819): “Yo Addy bro”


Quiles (Call #828): “Ma faukt bro juss got up goin rn now only tale me like

10min”


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 #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”


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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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.


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.



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.”


Evans: “So you can send me the rest.”



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”


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 #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.”


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?”


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.”


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 “


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.”



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.”


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.”



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.”


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


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.


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”


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…”


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.”


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


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 #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 #688): “Yo bro”

Evans to Quiles (610-934-2154) (Call #690): “Yo Brody”


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 #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 #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 #729): “Yo bro”






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Evans to Quiles (267-808-0063) (Call #770): “Wats going on”


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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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.


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.”


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.”


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


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


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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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.”


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.”


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…”


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: “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


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”


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”


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.”


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”


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”


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


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”


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



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.”


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.”



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.


4:16PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED

BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” FROM 424-744-2079, A



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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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.



BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON AKA “PAPI BUHL,” FROM 424-744-2079, A


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.”




that the call transcribed above is a follow up to Call #234 and the shipment of

drugs by Evans to Johnson.


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”



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.”


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.”


Evans: “Alright, fa sure.”


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 #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 #602): “Did u send out”




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.


PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY


USED BY RICKY EVANS


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.”


Evans: “I told you just two hundred extra bro.”

Johnson: “Alright, alright I got you.”


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


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 (Call #2303): “4504 regatta circle norristown pa 19401”


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: “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.”



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Evans (Call #2503): “Yo bro “

Call #2522

Evans: “You better pay your God Damn bill.”


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.”


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.”


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?”


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.”



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...”


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.”




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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

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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”


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.


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


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


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.”


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)


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.”


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)


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.”


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)


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


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”


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.”


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.”


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


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. (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


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.”


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).



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.”




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.

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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!”


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.”


Baker: “Like fifteen twenty minutes.”

Smarra: “Alright bro.”


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Smarra: “I/A.”

Call #197


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.”


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


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.”


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.”



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.”


Baker (Call #542): “13 Melrose Ave., Lansdowne PA 19050.”

Call #545

Smarra: “Yo.”


Smarra: “What up?”

Baker: “What’s up what you um you got the address you probably didn’t

look at it yet.”

Smarra: “Yes.”


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.”


Smarra: “Alright, yo, I’m gonna, I’m gonna send you uh…I’m gonna send

you a- Jesus Christ.”


Smarra: “No, I’m gonna send you a thousand on cash app.”


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.”




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?”


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


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.”


Call #4366

Winans: “Yo.”


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.”



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CALL #4373

Winans: “Yo.”


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.”


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.”



Call #4380


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”


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.”


Call #4383


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.”


Call #4389

Winans: “Yo.”


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.”




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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


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.”


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.”


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?”


Smarra: “Um, like the perc 20s?”

Baker: “Yeah.”

Smarra: “120 of em.”


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 bro I’ll see you in a little bit.”


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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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.”


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.”


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.


FEBRUARY 26, 2022 BETWEEN 9:12AM AND 4:44PM, A SERIES OF

COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-995-0512, A PHONE USED BY ROBERT


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.”



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.



BY ZACHARY SMITH, AND 215-980-1764, A PHONE USED BY TYRONE

BAKER


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.”


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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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.”


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.


FEBRUARY 28, 2022, BETWEEN 1:13PM AND 5:35PM, A SERIES OF



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: “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.”


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: “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.”


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.”


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.”


U/F: “Let you know, K.”


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.”


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


4429) on February 28, 2022, showed that at 6:54PM, 7:09PM, AND 7:24PM



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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BY ROBERT SMARRA JR., FROM PHONE 267-670-4429, A PHONE USED

BY TYRONE BAKER


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 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



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.”


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.”


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.”


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


4429) on March 3, 2022, showed that at 11:09PM, 11:24PM, and 11:39PM



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


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.”


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


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.”


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.”


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


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: “Yeah”

Baker: “You know, you know, you know how to get there right?”

Smarra: “Yeah.”

Baker: “Alright, just call me when you get close.”


Baker: “Alright. I’m waiting on you.”

Smarra: “Lit.”


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Summary of drug transaction between Baker and Smarra Jr.


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.”


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?”


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, 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.”


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.”


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.”


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.


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



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.”


U/M: “Answer your FaceTime.”




ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE



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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.”


7:05PM, AN OUTGOING PHONE CALL TO 267-616-1253 FROM 215-980-


U/M: “Yo.”


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.”


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.


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


2022, BETWEEN 6:07PM AND 6:29PM, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 267-

616-1253, A PHONE ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, FROM


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.”


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.”


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.”



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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




Baker: “Hello?”

U/M: “Yo bro.”


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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12:49PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-616-1253 A PHONE




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.”


U/M: “Alright.”



ASSOCIATED WITH SAMIR PARRISH-STARR, FROM 215-980-1764, A


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.”

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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


Call #6694


U/M: “Yo broski. Hello?”


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.”


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.”


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.”


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


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.”


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.”


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.”


Call #6988

U/M: “Yo.”


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.”


Call #6993

U/M: “Hello?”


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.”


Call #7003


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.”


Call #7047


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




U/M: “Hello?”



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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.”


U/M: “Alright.”


PM, AN INCOMING CALL FROM 484-424-2942, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE



U/M: “Yeah I’m five minutes away.”

Baker: “Alright that’s I/A I’m about to pull off.”

U/M: “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.


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


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.”


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.”


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.”


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.”


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.


that above-described incident was a drug transaction between Tyrone Baker and

a female using phone number 609-431-1742.


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…”


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.”


U/F: “Alright babe.”


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 (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.


opinion that this meeting between Baker and the unknown female, believed to

be Valerie DiCicco, was consistent with a drug transaction.


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


Call #1907

Baker: “Hello.”

U/F: “Yo.”


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”


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.”


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”


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


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


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:


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


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.”


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.”


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.”


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.



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.”


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:


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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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?”


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?”


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.”


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.”


Guasperini: “Alright.”


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.


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.”


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.”


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.”


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?”


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.”


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.”


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”


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.”


Guasperini: “Right before the Wells Fargo sign.”

Baker: “Alright. Make sure you not illegally parked bro.”

Guasperini: “Yeah, I am.”


Guasperini: “There’s people here. If I have to move, I’ll move and I’ll tell you,

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.”


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?”


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.”


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.


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.



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.”


U/F: “Alright thanks.”


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”


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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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


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.”


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…”


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?”


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.”


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.”


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.”


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.”


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,


this meeting between Baker and the male, believed to be Vahey, was consistent

with a drug transaction.

DANIEL ALLEN


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


BELIEVED TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, TO 215-980-1764, A PHONE


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


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.”


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


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.”


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


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


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.”


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.”

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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.”



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


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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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.”




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




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BELIEVED TO BE USED BY DANIEL ALLEN, FROM 215-980-1764, A PHONE


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.”



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



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."


Baker: “Alright. Call me when you pull up.”

Quintana: “Okay.”



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


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.”


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


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?”


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-


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.”


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.”


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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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.


AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-780-4755, A PHONE USED BY AN

UNKNOWN MALE, WITH SUBSCRIBER NAME “JOHN WAYNE,” TO 267-670-


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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U/M: “Late.”

Summary of calls


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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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,


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.”


Leek: “That’s how they said they got my jawn.”


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...”


Leek: “They not, they not on, like you know how people be like oh they

watching, they...”


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.”


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-


00:00 – 00:15 – Call #23

U/M: “I/A”


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.”


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.”


U/M: “Instead of the Home Depot.”


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.


PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-275-3442 TO 267-804-6023, A


Winans: “Yo.”

U/M: “Yizzo, as-salamu alaykum.”


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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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.”


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.”


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.


PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-275-3442 TO 267-804-6023, A


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.”



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


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.”



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CALL #41


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.”


U/M: “Ya know what I mean?”


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?”


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...”


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.”



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U/M: “Alright.”

Winans: “Yeah, I got you.”

U/M: “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.”


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.”


U/W: “Take care.”


U/M: “You hear me?”


U/M: “Alright.”

CALL #63


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”


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CALL #67

Winans: “I’m Down Here”

CALL #68


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.”


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.


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?”


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.”


U/M: “Then I can give you the location.”


U/M: “Alright, good lookin bro.”


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”

CALL #56


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.”



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.”


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.”


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?”


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?”


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?”


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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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


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.”


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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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.”


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.


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


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)


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)


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


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)


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.”


Winans: “But I got you Ziara, I/A get my stuff. I/A.”


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)



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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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.


04:07PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 267-858-2592 TO 267-804-


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



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.”


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.



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 [email protected]. 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.


PM, AN OUTGOING CALL TO 609-783-0885 FROM 215-275-6435, A PHONE


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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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.”


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.”


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.”



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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.


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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12:23PM, AN INCIMONG PHONE CALL FROM 484-940-7070 TO 267-804-


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.”


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


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,



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.


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.


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.”



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U/M: “Alright.”


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.”


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.”


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.”


Ancell: “Alright, sounds good.”


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.”


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



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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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


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:


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…”


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.”


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?”


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.”


S. Quiles: “Okay.”


S. Quiles: “Alright so…”


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.”


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?”


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


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.”


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.”



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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?”


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.”


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


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.”


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.”


S. Quiles: “I have over five hundred of it.”


S. Quiles: “I/A.”

Jonson: “Alright.”

S. Quiles: “That’s what I’m trying to do tonight. Cause now Ian wants to

come.”


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.”



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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.”


Call #593


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.”


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.”


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…”


S. Quiles: “Alright brother and hey.”


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?


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.”


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.”


S. Quiles: “So, you know if you are coming up let me know.”


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S. Quiles: “Alright.”

Call #880

Johnson: (speaking to someone in the background) “Where you at?”

S. Quiles: “Hey buddy.”


S. Quiles: “Hey, how you doing?”

Johnson: (speaking to someone in background) “Um... um... yeah.”

S. Quiles: “Huh? What’s that?”


S. Quiles: “What the hell are you doing?”


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.”


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.


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



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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.”


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


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.”




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.”


S. Quiles: “Alright, bye bye.”


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”


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



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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.”


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”


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,


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!”


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.”


U/M: “I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”


U/M: “Later.”


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.


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


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.”


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


AN INCOMING CALL FROM 570-630-6278, A PHONE USED BY AN



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.”


U/M: “Alright brother I’ll see you tomorrow then.”


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.


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


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”


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


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.”


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.





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.”


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…”


U/M 2: “Ten, that’s, that’s nine, ten, eleven, twelve is coming back to you.”


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?”


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?”


U/M 2: “I’m, I’m not gonna take all these what I have.”


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.”





Johnson: “Yo.”

U/M 1: “Yo.”


U/M 1: “Yeah so you said give him four, he owe you for one right?”


U/M 1: “So that, this is going to be one-fifty right?”


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.”


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.”



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.”


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.”


U/M: “Alright man, later.”

Johnson: “Alright, later.”


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


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...”



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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...”


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.”


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.”


U/M: “Okay.”


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.


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.”


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.”


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



U/M: “Hey Shak.”


U/M: “What part of the city he live at?”

Johnson: “He live on west.”

U/M: “Oh alright.”


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.”


U/M: “I was trying to make it easier.”


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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.”


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.”


U/M: “Okay.”




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?”



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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.”




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.”


U/M: “He just left the money and told take care of everything.”


U/M: “He’d be back. Like, I, yeah that shit, you know I can’t. And I got

my girls and everything.”


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.”


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.”


U/M: “Alright.”



AN INCOMING CALL FROM 813-595-6415, USED BY AN UNKNOWN MALE

TO 267-934-7913, A PHONE USED BY SHAKEEM JOHNSON


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.”



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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.”


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.”


U/M: “And you couldn’t, I/A and I’ll wait right there.”

Johnson: “Alright I’mma call him back.”


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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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



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.”


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.”


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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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.”



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



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.”


Evans: “Alright just hit me, I got you. S/L We’ll talk man.”

Baker: “Alright it’s a bet.”


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

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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”


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.


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!”

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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.


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

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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”


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


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.


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”


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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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.”




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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16:43 – 17:24

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


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?”


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.”


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


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.”



Call #6066

Baker: “Yo Zach.”

Smith: “I/A bro.”

Baker: “Alright that’s cool, I’m, I’m over here in the spot.”



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Call #6072


Smith: “I’m outside, think it’s your Mom walking in the crib.”

Baker: “What car the BMW?”

Smith: “Yea.”


Smith: “I’m outside bro.”


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

[email protected]. 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.”


PM, AN INCOMING PHONE CALL FROM 424-559-9922, A PHONE

ASSOCIATED WITH MANUAL “MANNY” REVELES, TO 424-744-2079, A


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.




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.


AN INCOMING PHONE CALL TO 424-287-7388 FROM 424-223-3050, A


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.”



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.”


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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