On August 14, 2012 a burglary was reported at the New Market Pharmacy in Mechanicsville, Maryland. It was discovered that unknown culprit(s) had entered the establishment after hours and stole nearly 1,656 “Hydrocodone” pills carrying a street value of about $12,000.
On November 19th, 2012 another burglary was reported to the same establishment; however the stolen pill count was over 11,000. The pills stolen during this burglary were predominantly Schedule II Narcotics. The street value related to this burglary was more than $275,000.
Vice/Narcotics detectives, BCI detectives and Patrol deputies continued to work all leads in both cases and a suspect was developed. Suspect Christopher Aloysius Guy (Age 27 of Mechanicsville) was identified as the lone perpetrator in the August burglary. As the investigation progressed, Suspect Guy was identified as a co-conspirator who allegedly accompanied Mark Thomas Krenzler (Age 27 of Wicomico Shores) in the November 19th burglary. A search and seizure warrant was executed on Suspect Guy’s residence and thousands of stolen pills, burglary tools and the safe stolen from the pharmacy were recovered. The Emergency Services Team assisted and executed the search and seizure warrant on Suspect Krenzler’s residence and items of evidence, to include numerous pills were recovered. In total over 7,000 pills were recovered. At the time of this release Suspect Guy was being held on $10,000 bond and no bond had been set for Suspect Krenzler.
The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice/Narcotics Division would like to thank everyone that provided us with leads and information that assisted us in closing these two very serious investigations.
Inquiries should be directed to Captain Daniel D. Alioto, Commander of Vice Narcotics, at 301-475-4200 x1918.
