BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After a former Safe Streets employee used his affiliation with the program to evade law enforcement and avoid arrest, FOX45 News continues to investigate the program operated out of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood, Safety and Engagement, or MONSE.
In September 2021, Ronald Alexander, a 50-year-old man from Baltimore, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for distributing drugs in Baltimore. Prosecutors said he used his position in the Safe Streets program to try to stop investigators from tracking him.
As detailed in his plea agreement, on August 5, 2020, a Baltimore Police officer conducted a traffic stop of Alexander after Alexander rolled through a stop sign. During the encounter, Alexander used his affiliation with Safe Streets and the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office to try to deter further police investigation.
Alexander called an associate afterward, and said:
Yeah. Police hopped on me. Told me to get off the phone. You know they scared, you know they scared of the Mayor Office, I said man I work for Safe Streets from the Mayor Office. I was just coming from one of my participant house, in need with this, it was in need of food due to the pandemic. He say oh, ok ok.
On August 14, 2020, search warrants were executed at locations related to the investigation, including Alexander’s residence in the 1200 block of North Augusta Avenue and a second residence where Alexander sometimes stayed in the unit block of North Culver Street, in...
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