Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton Howard announced today that on July 29, 2021, Lora Walters, who formerly served as the Deputy Director of the Cecil County Board of Elections, pleaded guilty to Misconduct in Office. According to the Statement of Facts in support of the plea, in her capacity as the Deputy Director of the Cecil Read the Rest…
Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton Howard announced today that Ms. Sharonda Stokes and Ms. Dephany McKnight, former Correctional Officers assigned to the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore, pleaded guilty on July 28, 2021, in Baltimore County Circuit Court to charges of Felony Theft Scheme and Misconduct in Office. Ms. Stokes was sentenced by the Hon. Robert Read the Rest…
Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard III announced today that Elizabeth “Betsy” Gardner, who formerly worked in the Baltimore City Council President’s Office as a community liaison has pled guilty to one count of perjury. According to a Statement of Facts read into the record, Ms. Gardner received over $15,000 payments from community organizations from Read the Rest…
FORMER BALTIMORE MAYOR CATHERINE PUGH PLEADS GUILTY TO PERJURY Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton Howard announced today that former Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County to a charge of perjury for her failure to disclose her business interest in Healthy Holly, LLC, on her financial disclosures Read the Rest…
State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that Tyler Walch, former Chief of Staff for Delegate Richard Impallaria, was convicted in the District Court for Baltimore County with violating the authority line requirements of the Maryland Election Laws. The maximum penalty for that offense is one year imprisonment and a fine of $1,000.00. The charges Read the Rest…
For Immediate Release FORMER POCOMOKE CITY POLICE LIEUTENANT FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MISCONDUCT Verdict follows former Police Chief’s misconduct conviction earlier this month State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that former Pocomoke City Police Lieutenant was found guilty by the Honorable W. Newton Jackson, III in the Worcester County Circuit Read the Rest…
For Immediate Release FORMER POCOMOKE CITY POLICE CHIEF CONVICTED OF MISCONDUCT IN OFFICE State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that former Pocomoke City Police Chief Kelvin Sewell was convicted of criminal misconduct in office in the Circuit Court for Worcester County before the Honorable D. William Simpson on December 1, 2016. The jury deliberated for Read the Rest…
For Immediate Release PHILIP HARRISON II, GRANDSON OF LATE STATE DELEGATE HATTIE HARRISON, PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY THEFT OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that Philip Harrison, II, 35, grandson of the late State Delegate Hattie Harrison, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to felony theft Read the Rest…
For Immediate Release October 21, 2013 FORMER VICTIM/WITNESS COORDINATOR FOR FREDERICK COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY THEFT OF RESTITUTION FUNDS State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that Leroy L. Ambush, III, former Victim/Witness Coordinator for the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Read the Rest…
For Immediate Release March 8, 2013 FORMER CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL VOTING State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt, has announced that Wendy W. Rosen, former candidate for Congress in the First District of Maryland, entered pleas of guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to charges of voting illegally in Read the Rest…
