Charles Edward Beard Jr., 26, of 221 W. Franklin St.
Andra Philip Stewart, 45, of 42 East Ave.
Toby Lee Harris, 20, of 12105 Heather Drive.
Michael Scott Maus, 28, of 21326 Greenbrier Road, Boonsboro.
Kent Wesley Bryant, 42, of 1320 Outer Drive.
Keith Lee Grier, 40, of 400 Fremont St.
Kenneth O. Mills, 34, of 18636 Carolyn St.
James Lea Cosner, 28, of 13509 National Highway, Cumberland, Md.
James Donald Newlin, 39, of 18609 Carolyn St.
Robert Carlton Norris Jr., 39, of 17926 Garden Lane, Apt. 1.
Jeffrey Kevin Ray, 33, of 214 E. Franklin St.
Cathy Lynn Allen, 42, of 12 N. Prospect St., Room 43.
Also charged were:
Gerald Douglas Dhayer, 46, of Winchester Grade Road, Berkeley Springs, W.Va., possession of marijuana.
Rhonda Wynette Feiser, 28, of 27 1/2 E. Antietam St., possession of drug paraphernalia.
Randall Lee Potter, 30, of 706 East A St., Brunswick, Md., possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Christopher Scheidegger, 30, of 2658 Tattoo Drive, Chambersburg, Pa., possession of drug paraphernalia.
Kevin Carl Elliott, 21, of 204 19th Ave., Newark, N.J., possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
Kendle Lamar Rome, 20, of 1601 18th Ave., Newark, N.J., possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
Rome and Elliott each posted a $40,000 bond and have been released, jail officials said.
Before 1989, reverse stings were common tools used by police to discourage the buying of illegal drugs. But that year, a Washington County Circuit Court judge ruled that it wasn't illegal to buy a fake drug.
With that ruling, police began "lacing" the fake drugs with enough real drugs to qualify.
In 1991, the law was changed in Maryland making it a crime to purchase fake drugs, believed to be real drugs, according to Washington County State's Attorney Ken Long.
