Jasmine Young Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy on Pretrial Release

Jasmine Young, 28, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, pleaded guilty on January 31, 2017, to participating in a narcotics conspiracy—while already on pretrial release for federal bank fraud and identity theft charges. The guilty plea, entered in U.S. District Court, exposes a pattern of brazen criminal conduct that escalated even under federal supervision.

The charges stem from a drug trafficking operation that ran from November 2015 through January 2016, during which Young conspired to distribute marijuana. The case intensified after a homicide in Baltimore on January 12, 2016—the same day an 8 to 11-pound shipment of marijuana was delivered to Young’s residence. That same day, federal authorities in Maryland were alerted by a DEA Narcotics Task Force in San Diego to a suspicious package en route to Young’s Windsor Mill address, scheduled for delivery on January 15, 2016.

Law enforcement intercepted the package, addressed to Nancy Young, and a narcotics detection dog alerted to the presence of drugs. A search warrant revealed 11 pounds of marijuana inside. The DEA conducted a controlled delivery, which Jasmine Young accepted. Minutes later, agents executed a search warrant at the home and took Young and a male suspect into custody.

Inside the apartment, investigators seized a .22 caliber handgun in a black shoebox atop a dryer, ammunition in multiple calibers, and a 9mm magazine with live rounds. A loaded revolver—later traced to a January 28, 2015, theft—was found inside a black sectional couch where the male suspect had his hands. Also recovered: the remnants of the delivered marijuana wrapped in green plastic, six cellphones scattered through the residence, and a large digital scale with drug residue on the kitchen counter.

Young initially denied involvement, but text messages pulled from the seized phones directly tied her to the drug conspiracy. Evidence showed she and the murdered woman had both permitted marijuana deliveries to their homes—linking the trafficking ring to a fatal incident. Her arrest triggered the revocation of her pretrial release in the bank fraud case, and she was immediately ordered into federal custody.

On April 15, 2016, Young had already pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, admitting she abused her position at a bank from July to October 2014 to steal customer data. She targeted high-balance accounts, took screenshots of personal information and checks, and passed the data to co-conspirators who forged checks, causing over $300,000 in losses across 22 victims. Young now faces up to five years for the drug conspiracy and an additional 10 years for committing the crime while on pretrial release.