3-Time Convicted Drug Dealer To Serve 38 Years

An Aberdeen man was sentenced Tuesday to serve 25 years in jail without parole for planning to deal drugs at an Aberdeen area gas station.

The sentence will be served consecutively to a 13-year sentence imposed last month in a separate drug-related case.

Gene Robert Bowser Jr., 37, of the unit block of West Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen, was convicted in December 2012 of felony possession of Hydrocodone with intent to distrubute and in February was convicted of misdemeanor possession of Hydrocodone and Morphine.

The February conviction stems from an August 2011 traffic stop, according to a release from the Harford County State's Attorney's Office.

Aberdeen police stopped a car at Plater and Law Street on Aug. 31, 2011. Bowser was a passenger in the car and because police had information he may be involved in illegal drug activity, officers got consent to search him, the release states.

Officers found Hydrocodone and Morphine in Bowser's pockets, the release states.

In January 2012, while he was out on bail and awaiting trial in the traffic stop case, Aberdeen police watched Bowser make a suspected drug deal and arrested him at the adjoining Travel Lodge Motel, the release states. Bowser had Hydrocodone pills in his pocket at the time of the arrest, according to prosecutors.

This second case resulted in the December 2012 conviction.

At sentencing in the felony Hydrocodone possession case Tuesday, Harford County Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Bowen cited Bowser’s criminal history, which includes two prior felony drug convictions in 1996 and 2007, and his continued criminal conduct as major reasons she imposed the 25 years without parole sentence, the release states.