Fourteen people were charged Wednesday in a 21-count federal indictment accusing them of conspiring to distribute crack and powder cocaine in a trafficking operation that operated near an elementary school in Southeast Washington, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
The indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court, alleges each defendant conspired to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base and 500 grams or more of cocaine within 1,000 feet of Hendley Elementary.
Prosecutors say the group engaged in open-air drug sales in the 4th Street SE and Chesapeake Street SE corridor, including in the presence of children from the elementary school….