POLICE: AREA RIFE WITH DRUG ACTIVITY

A Dayton Man Was Killed In The 2100 Block After A Police Sting Went Wrong.

DAYTON - When looking for drug activity in the 2100 block of Edwin
C. Moses Boulevard, police pay attention to the little things.

It could be a car bearing out-of-county plates in the back of a
parking lot, vehicles circling around businesses multiple times, or
someone in the front seat looking down, perhaps working up a fix.

Buyers often use the pay phone outside of the Econo Lodge or a cell
phone to contact a nearby dealer, according to police.

Some of the deals take place on nearby Cincinnati Street and the
buyer returns to the 2100 block, usually the Wendy's or McDonald's
parking lots, to use, police reports say.

"If you are from out of town you aren't going to venture too far
into the city," Dayton police Maj. Mitch Davis said. "And that's the
way they came in so it's a logical place to stop before getting back
on the highway."

Carl Carter Sr. and Bobbie Carter, of Lynchburg, stopped in the
McDonald's parking lot on a dark, cold mid-January evening.

According to a police report, Bobbie Carter told detectives she had
just sold some of her blood for $40 and the couple used $20 to buy
two heroin gel caps at a house on Liscum Drive.

Police noticed the couple in the Wendy's parking lot, far away from
the restaurant's nearest entrance, bent over and looking toward the
car's console.

They were drawing heroin out of the caps with a needle and syringe,
according to the report. The two were arrested for possession of narcotics.

Most drug arrests are in the evening

Many drug-related arrests in the 2100 block occur after 5 p.m.,
according to police reports.

In the morning, it's normal to see academics, repairmen and soccer
moms stopping for breakfast at McDonald's or catching a caffeine
buzz at the BP.

"I fill up here a lot in the morning," said Doug Taylor, while
pumping gas at the BP. "I've never seen anything suspicious going
on. It's not going to stop me because it is the only BP around here
and I have to use a (BP gas) card for work."

"I stop here because it is close to my work," said Shantae Jones,
after ordering lunch at Wendy's. "It looks like a nice area. But
drug dealers? That's crazy. I might need to go somewhere else, but
this stuff is everywhere."

Police Sgt. Chris Williams, who has participated in drug busts in
the 2100 block, said, "You will find that a lot of the arrests from
that area are people who are from out of town."

Williams said there is little the businesses can do to stem drug
trafficking by out-of-towners. The businesses are located there in
part to draw people from the highway.

The BP, Wendy's and McDonald's are open late and the Econo Lodge
usually has vacancies, though employees lock the lobby doors from
midnight to 7 a.m.

The hotel's manager, who declined to give his name, said a customer
must produce a valid driver's license before he or she can rent a room.

The McDonald's and Wendy's are both corporate-owned, according to
the Montgomery County Auditor's Web site. Calls to their corporate
headquarters were not returned.

A manager at the BP gas station declined to be interviewed.

Drug sting goes awry, resulting in man's death

After weeks of undercover surveillance, Dayton detectives were hoping
to arrest alleged drug dealer Robert A. Moore, 19, on May 15 after a
controlled drug buy in the Econo Lodge parking lot.

The sting quickly spiraled into a fatal shooting.

After the alleged drug buy, detectives approached the car, whose
driver, Charles D. Stargell Jr., 24, refused to surrender, Dayton
police Chief Richard Biehl said.

Stargell hit detectives David House and Raymond St. Clair with the
car, causing St. Clair to accidently fire his weapon into the car's
rear window.

House then fired into the car, hitting 22-year-old passenger Derrick
J. Jordan, of Dayton, in the head, Biehl said.

As Stargell tried to make it back onto Edwin C. Moses Boulevard,
someone in the car tossed a gun out the window, Biehl said.

The car didn't make it out of the parking lot.

Jordan never made it out of Miami Valley Hospital. He died 15 days
after being shot.

Jordan was cleared of any criminal charges from the incident.

"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Marvin Jordan,
Derrick's uncle. "He was a good kid. He had no record and actually
had a job interview at General Motors that following Monday."

Stargell was indicted on three counts of felonious assault, two
counts of failure to comply and one count of complicity to drug trafficking.

Moore is charged with felony cocaine trafficking.

The detectives involved in the shooting have returned to work.

House arrested a couple from Miamisburg on June 6 for trying to use
heroin in the Wendy's parking lot, according to a police report.