Also under investigation are videos from two other incidents, one in November and one in January, in which the public defender’s office and a private attorney for one of the defendants have alleged that drugs were being planted by officers.

In the first video, recorded in January and released by the public defender’s office in July, defense attorneys say Officer Richard Pinheiro can be seen placing a bag of alleged drugs among debris in a backyard lot, walking out to the street, activating his body camera and then returning to the alley and recovering the same bag as two other officers look on. Officers’ body cameras are constantly recording a 30-second loop of footage, which they save once activated — meaning footage of the 30 seconds before activation are saved.

Pinheiro has been suspended pending a police investigation. Officers Officers Hovhannes Simonyan and Jamal Brunson have been placed on administrative duty pending the investigation.

Mosby’s office on Monday said 68 criminal cases that relied on the testimony of those officers have been or will be dropped, while 41 active cases and 92 closed cases are under review. Prosecutors have decided to pursue prosecutions in 26 cases involving the officers.

In the second set of videos, recorded in November and obtained by The Baltimore Sun earlier this month, officers can be seen searching the driver’s area of a vehicle and not finding anything before turning off their body cameras. They later turn their cameras on, and an officer almost immediately pulls a bag of alleged drugs out of the driver’s area of the car.

Mosby’s office said it has asked for postponements in 44 cases that relied on the testimony of the officers involved and that will be dropped if the motions are not granted. It said 56 active cases and 114 closed cases are under review. Prosecutors have decided to pursue prosecutions in 18 cases.

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has said probable cause existed and illegal drugs were legitimately recovered amid the broader investigations in which the first two videos were taken, and that the public should not rush to judgment in either case before the conclusion of the department’s investigations.

Davis said the department was looking into the possibility that the videos showed re-enactments of the discovery of drugs, and issued an internal memo to officers obtained by The Sun reminding them that re-enactments are never allowed.

Officer Glenn Peters, a covert officer in the second set of videos, said in an internal report to his supervisors that was obtained by The Sun that the drug discovery on camera was legitimate. He said he spotted the drugs in the steering column of the vehicle after arriving on the scene after other officers had searched the car without luck, and that they had turned their body cameras back on to record the recovery of the drugs.

Shamere Collins, a defendant in the drug case before it was dropped, has alleged the drugs were planted by police.

The body-camera investigations follow the indictment of seven Baltimore police officers in March on federal racketeering charges — a case that also led to Mosby’s office dropping criminal charges against defendants arrested by the officers involved. Federal prosecutors allege those officers robbed citizens, filed false court paperwork and filed fraudulent overtime claims. Two of the officers have pleaded guilty.

Mosby’s office on Monday said her office has now dropped or will drop 77 criminal cases that relied on the officers in the federal case. There are 111 cases still under review. Her office has decided to move forward with 37 cases involving the officers.

Mosby’s office said it has “been forced to employ significant resources in order to thoroughly evaluate questionable [body-worn camera] incidents and all related cases pertaining to the officers involved.”

It said all “questionable” activity has been referred to the police department’s Internal Affairs Division.

Prosecutors have not provided a list of all of the cases they have dropped in relation to all of the body-camera videos. However, they did provide a list of 41 felony drug and gun cases they dropped in relation to the first video, from the January incident.

Since last month, when the cases began getting dropped, some of the defendants have been arrested again.

Shamarr Levi, 22, was arrested in June and charged with carrying a handgun and drugs. Police stopped Levi and found a loaded revolver in his pocket, officers wrote in charging documents.

Prosecutors dropped the charges, but nearly a month later he was arrested again.

In his second arrest, police stopped two people in a car in the Rosemont neighborhood of West Baltimore and said they found two loaded semi-automatic handguns, suspected drugs and cash. Levi faces gun and drug charges, again. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next month in Baltimore District court.

Levi did not have an attorney listed in online court records.

Also Trayon Jones, 26, was arrested in March with two other men and charged with dealing cocaine out of a vacant stash house in Southwest Baltimore. Gun and drug charges against Jones were dropped July 24. Within a month, he was back in police custody, arrested on the same West Baltimore block and charged with selling marijuana and disorderly conduct.

Jones did not have an attorney listed in online court records. His girlfriend said police were “coming after” the men who saw their cases dropped.

But Smith said officers are only targeting those who commit crimes.

“No one should be surprised or stunned as we’ve often spoken about repeat offenders,” he wrote in an email last week. “We were hopeful that they would make the best of their ‘second chance,’ but they didn’t. They made a choice, once again, to illegally carry a firearm and our officers did a great job arresting them, again.”