News Release, MDTA

Sunday, June 23, 2019- At approximately 2:57 p.m., an MDTA Police Officer stopped 38-year-old Baltimore resident Derrick Sessons on US 301 near the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton Bridge in Charles County for not having a front license plate.

Mr. Sessons was driving a 2001 Lexus passenger car. During an ensuing probable cause search, officers located a loaded handgun and drugs. The handgun’s serial number was removed. He was taken into custody without incident.

Sessons was charged with illegally possessing a firearm, drug possession and removing the serial number from a firearm. Both were taken before a District Court Commissioner and are awaiting trial dates

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