WASHINGTON — A Prince George’s County police officer and
more than a dozen other people have been indicted in the District of Columbia
as part of a broad drug-dealing investigation.
Prosecutors say Vanessa Edwards-Hamm tampered with an
investigation by tipping off a person to a wiretap. She was arrested Monday and
made her first appearance in federal court on Wednesday, when a pair of
indictments charging a total of 17 people were unsealed.
A lawyer for Edwards-Hamm didn’t immediately return a phone
call seeking comment Wednesday. Prosecutors say her brother, Mark Edwards, of
Capitol Heights, Md., is among those arrested.
The investigation by local and federal authorities targeted
a drug-dealing network that authorities say sold heroin, cocaine, marijuana and
prescription pills throughout the region.