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Major drug offender’ indicted in trafficking
Police: Related to murder victim
By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY
April 27, 2010
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WARREN - A Detroit man with ties to Warren and the relative of a man shot to
death here in January pleaded not guilty Monday to a 13-count indictment
charging him with trafficking different types of drugs and allegations that
he is a ''major drug offender.''
The ''MDO" allegation incorporated in indictments against Harold Travis, 41,
with addresses on Maiden Street in Detroit and 2026 W. Market St., Warren,
could mean up to an additional 10 years on a maximum sentence of more than
35 years. Convictions also could mean a mandatory minimum sentence of 10
years for Travis, according to Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Michael
Burnett.
Travis, who uses a wheelchair, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond in
Trumbull County Jail.
He was secretly indicted and arrested prior to Monday's arraignment before
Common Pleas Judge Peter Kontos. He faces trafficking charges and possession
of cocaine, crack, heroin and aggravated possession of drug charges based on
previous buys by a confidential informant or undercover agent with Trumbull
Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force.
The task force had been building a case against Travis since a raid Sept. 15
at a home on West Market Street, near Nevada Street, where at least 10
people were arrested, according to Lt. Jeff Orr of TAG.
Orr said Travis is related to and possibly the older brother of Michael A.
Travis, 30, of Detroit, who was found shot to death in the backyard of a
house on Washington Street N.E. in January. No arrests have been made in the
murder, which residents in the area theorized was linked to drugs.
The older Travis has been confined to a wheelchair since he was shot several
years ago in Detroit, according to Orr.
A Trumbull County grand jury earlier this month chose not to indict seven of
10 other people rounded up in the West Market Street home, along with 16 pit
bulls.
Orr has described the house as a large drug distribution point with ''a lot
of people coming and going at all hours of the day and night.''
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