AGENCIES GET CUT OF DRUG RAID CASH

Money Was Seized During Area Arrests

NORFOLK -- A federal prosecutor distributed $187,000 seized in a Newport
News drug raid to several area law-enforcement agencies Wednesday.

"It's poetic justice to take what the bad guys made and use it for law
enforcement," said Paul J. McNulty, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern
District of Virginia.

McNulty discussed the benefits of fighting crime with money seized from
convicted drug dealers Wednesday afternoon at the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Norfolk.

"There is nothing sweeter in law enforcement," he said.

The money was seized in June, after a search warrant was executed at the
Kiln Creek residence of Brenton Wayne Shand. Taped conversations and
videotapes shot from outside the residence revealed that drug activity was
occurring there.

When Shand's residence was raided, officers found more than 2 kilograms
(4.4 pounds) of powder cocaine, a half-kilogram (1.1 pounds) of crack
cocaine and $300,000. Shand, 34, and his girlfriend, Marie Barker, 29, were
arrested on federal drug charges. Shand got a 14-year prison sentence, and
Barker was sentenced to nine years, after both pleaded guilty.

The investigation and raid were the result of a joint effort that involved
local, state and federal law-enforcement officials.

McNulty distributed checks Wednesday to law-enforcement agencies from
Newport News, Hampton, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Poquoson, Suffolk
and Virginia Beach. The amount distributed ranged from $267 for the
Poquoson and Hampton police departments to $91,588 for the U.S. Customs
Service in Norfolk. The Newport News Police Department got $17,931.

McNulty said federal law-enforcement officials were legally required to
turn over some of the proceeds seized in drug raids to local police
departments for their crimefighting efforts. He said a task force of area
law-enforcement agencies that worked with the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration decided how the $187,000 should be divided.