Quakertown Drug Trafficker Handed State Prison Sentence

A 47-year-old Quakertown man was sentenced Monday to 13 to 31 years in state prison for trafficking methamphetamine and other drugs in Bucks County.

According to a news release from the office of Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan, Brendan Craig Hamrick pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal use of a communication facility and nine counts each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in October.

Authorities said Hamrick sold over 130 grams of meth and 58 fentanyl pills to undercover agents during two controlled purchases in March 2022, and was found to be in possession of 200 grams of crystal meth, crack or freebase cocaine and “distribution level” amounts of LSD, marijuana and MDMA when he was arrested following a traffic stop in May 2022. According to police, also recovered as evidence at the time were a digital scale laced with drug residue, bags used to package narcotics and a cell phone police said Hamrick used “to coordinate his illegal operations.”

During Hamrick’s sentencing hearing, authorities said evidence was presented from a consensual recording in which “Hamrick was heard encouraging a cooperating individual to drug a supplier with GHB, which he described as the ‘date rape drug.'”

Hamrick further claimed “he possessed the knowledge to dose an individual based on their body weight to keep them incapacitated for four to five hours,” the DA’s office said.

Deputy District Attorney Thomas Gannon “successfully crossed the defendant on these recordings, as well as his extensive criminal history and his failure to commit to drug treatment,” the release said. “This sentence reflects the severity of Hamrick’s actions and the danger his trafficking posed to the community.”

The case was investigated by the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force and the Warrington Township Police Department with assistance from the Quakertown Borough Police Department.