DC employee accused of selling drugs while at work

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The FBI busted a D.C. employee now accused of selling heroin and fentanyl outside his workplace.

Investigators say Darrell Pope was part of a drug ring that worked across D.C., Maryland and northern Virginia.

Pope works for D.C.’s Department Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, DCRA.

Investigators say he brought fentanyl with him to work and sold to uncover investigators multiple times outside the building in the Waterfront neighborhood of Southwest.

On Tuesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at DCRA.

Court documents show that for six months the FBI and Prince William County police have been investigating a drug ring operating out of Woodbridge.

They say Pope was part of that and was part of suspected drug transactions that happened in Virginia and Maryland, including at a Baskin Robbins near where Pope lives in Clinton, Md.

No one answered the door at the home. There appeared to be a mark from a battering ram on the door.

Pope was arrested Tuesday at work. Court documents say he had 30 grams of fentanyl on him, and that they found an ounce of fentanyl and 3 guns at his home in Clinton.

A neighbor who didn’t want to be identified said she was stunned by Pope’s arrest.

Pope’s wife Lori also works at DCRA. She was named in court documents, but not charged.

D.C. officials say she’s now on leave from her job.

A man named Ronald Gorham was also arrested in the sting.