Ron Welch
Muskingum County Prosecutor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Maryland Rapist Confesses to Drug Trafficking in Middle of Trial
A Maryland man abruptly changed his mind and admitted his guilt during his trial for drug crimes.
Bryden L. Bibbins, 24, of Snow Hill, Maryland admitted his guilt during his trial in Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas. Bibbins’ criminal history includes rape and weapons charges.
Bibbins was on trial in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Kelly Cottrill. He was charged with two counts of trafficking fentanyl with a machine gun specification.
The trial had started on December 10.
On the first day, the jury of six men and six women listened to testimony from Muskingum County Sheriff’s Department deputies Blake Browning, Wade Kanavel, Graham Schaumlefflel, and Tyler Patterson.
The deputies testified about the traffic stop that ultimately brought Bibbins and his three companions to justice.
During the early morning of August 30, Dep. Browning was patrolling on West Pike in Zanesville.
He saw a car driven by Antonio K. Collins, 44, of Salisbury, Maryland, fail to signal when turning and pulled the vehicle over.
The car’s passengers were Jorge Luis Rosa Perez, age 24, of Chipley, Florida; Marcus K. Lloyd 23, of Morton, Missouri; and Bibbins.
During the stop, Perez tried to run away. He was tased by officers and arrested.
Officers found a bag containing more than 1,800 blue pills in the front seat of the car. The pills were made to look like Percocet, also known as oxycodone, but were really made of fentanyl.
The bag also contained four bricks of fentanyl powder, weighing more than a kilogram in total.
Lloyd was sitting in the back seat, next to Bibbins. During a search of Lloyd, officers found a machine gun on him.
Detectives with the Zanesville/Muskingum County Drug Unit searched the passengers’ phones. They found that Bibbins was paying Collins to drive him and the other three people from Maryland to Columbus, Ohio. They had bought the pills and bricks in Columbus and were going to resell in Maryland.
Bibbins’ phone was searched. Deputies found 450 text messages about distributing drugs.
Before the trial began on December 10, Perez pleaded guilty to felony trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, with multiple specifications. He could face up to 31 years in prison.
Perez was recently tried for murder in Florida but was found not guilty.
Lloyd pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony trafficking, each with several specifications. He could face up to 23 years in prison.
Lloyd also has a prior criminal history. He stood trial in 2021 for a drive-by shooting involving teenagers in Florida but was found not guilty.
Collins, the driver, pleaded guilty to attempted trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, with multiple specifications. He faces a sentence of up to eight years in prison.
Bibbins rejected an offer of 15 years in prison as punishment for his role in the conspiracy, and his trial began on December 10.
As the second day of testimony began, Bibbins changed his mind and pleaded guilty to all charges. Bibbins agreed to a recommended sentence of 22 years in prison.
Muskingum County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John Litle says Bibbins’ drug trafficking reminds him of another case involving fentanyl pills made to look like medicine.
“At this time two years ago, I was preparing a case in which a high school student consumed what she believed to be a Percocet 30,” Litle said. “It was actually fentanyl, and she overdosed and died. Today, we accepted the last plea from four men who planned on distributing 1,800 of those pills on the street.”
Litle says Muskingum County law enforcement is happy to get drug runners like Bibbins off the streets.
“The machine gun, bricks of fentanyl, and 1,800 poisoned pills will ultimately result in greater than 60 years in prison for this crew,” Litle said. “They may not have intended those pills for Zanesville's streets, but it was Muskingum County's obligation—and in fact, our pleasure—to help the people of Snow Hill and Salisbury, Maryland by removing these evil men from the streets, for as long as the law and the facts allow.”
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