When a defendant agrees to go on probation his or her actions will be under a microscope until the supervision terms ends. Unfortunetly, the success or failure of a probation sentence is not always up to the defendant. Probation officers have a great deal of power and control over their…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently announced that a 29-year old Baltimore County man has pled guilty to two felony charges in federal court, which stemmed from his use of a fake Secret Service badge. According to facts presented in the plea agreement the Middle River resident was pulled over in…
Another former member of the Baltimore Police Department’s notorious Gun Trace Task Force has been found guilty of a serious crime in federal court. The 49-year old veteran officer, who retired earlier this year after 26 years with the BPD, is the 15th member of the task force to face…
Earlier this year a former state lawmaker entered a guilty plea in the Baltimore federal courthouse for accepting bribes and committing wire fraud while in office, and the ex-delegate recently learned that her fate would include a prison sentence. The defendant was a well-known lawmaker who had been in office…
In a rather bizarre case, a Maryland State Trooper recently pled guilty to perjury and misconduct in office for falsifying DUI arrests. The guilty plea was heard in the Baltimore County Circuit Court just a couple of weeks after the trooper was formally charged by the Attorney General’s Office. It…
A veteran Anne Arundel County police officer has been arrested and charged with numerous felony offenses for allegedly stealing from the home of a deceased man in Pasadena. Back in April multiple officers responded to the residence after a report of an unattended death. The officer in question then returned…
Ocean City Police have issued more than 7 times the number of marijuana citations in May and June as they did those same months in 2019, and some local officials are getting concerned. Last May police officers in Maryland’s only beachfront town wrote a measly 8 civil citations for marijuana…
Federal law enforcement has made fentanyl a major priority, and last week a 26-year old Baltimore County man was sentenced to a decade in prison for possession with intent to distribute the deadly narcotic. According to the statement of facts in the guilty plea, a Woodlawn man fled from Baltimore…
A popular downtown Annapolis restaurant was burglarized last month, and the two suspects have yet to be identified or apprehended. Unfortunately, dozens of businesses and homes are burglarized each day in Maryland, but this incident was particularly bizarre. For starters, surveillance video showed the suspects entering the restaurant’s kitchen through…
Tens of thousands of people travel along Route 50 from Annapolis to Ocean City each summer, and few complete their journey without seeing a Maryland State Trooper parked in the median, or actively writing a traffic citation on the shoulder. The state police have a highly visible presence on all…