Department head moves office to Baltimore Detention Center

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 26, 2013
Tags: baltimore detention center, crime, department of public safety, indictment, inmates, Law, legal news, security

ANNAPOLIS — The head of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has moved his office to the Baltimore Detention Center to closely review security after 25 people were indicted in a smuggling ring involving correctional officers. Rick Binetti, a spokesman for the department, said Friday that Gary Maynard will be directly overseeing [...]

15 officers among those indicted in alleged jail drug ring 

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 23, 2013
Tags: Baltimore, black guerilla family, contraband, correctional officer, crime, gang, indictment, maryland, Prison

The state’s correctional department will be conducting an internal investigation and reviewing its policies after 15 officers were arrested in connection with an allegedly widespread drug ring run by a prison gang, Gary D. Maynard, secretary of the department, said Tuesday.

Autopsy says Frederick Co. man with Down syndrome had ‘anger issues’

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 26, 2013
Tags: crime, frederick county, indictment, Law, murder, robert ethan saylor

An autopsy report on a man with Down syndrome who died in custody says he had “anger issues.” The report says 26-year-old Robert Ethan Saylor of New Market also had a heart condition that made him susceptible to sudden cardiac death. The Associated Press reviewed the document Tuesday at the state medical examiner’s office in [...]

Feds indict 4 in salmonella outbreak

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2013
Tags: atlanta, contaminated, food, indictment, Law, legal news, peanut corp. of america, salmonella, virginia

ATLANTA — A federal grand jury indicted four employees of a peanut company linked to a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds. The indictment was unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Georgia and charges four employees with Virginia-based Peanut Corp. of America. The charges include conspiracy, wire fraud, obstruction of justice [...]

Defendant in drug case retrial rips up indictment

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 28, 2013
Tags: d.c. circuit court of appeals, drug trial, indictment, legal news

WASHINGTON — A D.C. nightclub owner being retried on a drug conspiracy charge dramatically tore up a copy of his indictment at the beginning of his new trial Monday. Antoine Jones, who is representing himself, told jurors that the indictment is nothing but a formal charge before ripping it twice. In 2010, the D.C. Circuit [...]

Court: State can re-indict, but incompetence for trial presumed permanent 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: December 18, 2012
Tags: Court of Appeals, indictment, Law, legal news, maryland

Maryland prosecutors can re-indict involuntarily committed defendants who remain incompetent to stand trial, despite a state law requiring charges be dismissed after five years of incompetency, Maryland’s top court ruled Tuesday.

Feds: Substance-abuse counselor took bribes to falsify urine-test results 

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: October 23, 2012
Tags: bribes, christopher womack, crime, grand jury, indictment, lauren jeannette diggs, legal news, u..s district court

A former substance-abuse counselor took bribes from drug-treatment program participants who wanted to dodge their urine tests, according to a federal grand jury indictment. Lauren Jeannette Diggs, 50, of Rockville, was also accused of selling false discharge certificates, witness tampering and making false statements to the grand jury. The indictment was handed up Monday and [...]

Alleged Perry Hall shooter indicted on 29 counts

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 4, 2012
Tags: Baltimore County, crime, daniel borowy, daniel bowory, george psoras, grand jury, handgun, indictment, jesse wasmer, prosecutors, robert wayne gladden jr., trial

A 15-year-old high school sophomore was indicted Tuesday on 29 counts related to the shooting of a classmate at Perry Hall High School, and the charging document alleges that the teen intended to kill eight other people. A Baltimore County grand jury indicted Robert Wayne Gladden Jr., on nine counts of attempted murder, nine counts [...]

Anne Arundel County police chief retiring

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 11, 2012
Tags: Anne Arundel County, Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold, Anne Arundel County Police Chief James Teare, indictment, james teare sr., police chief, retirement, retiring, State Prosecutor Emmet Davitt

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s state prosecutor said Wednesday his office would close a criminal investigation into Anne Arundel County’s police chief stemming from an indictment of the county executive for allegedly misusing his police protection squad, because the chief has decided to retire. State Prosecutor Emmet Davitt said in a statement that James Teare Sr.’s retirement [...]

Top court: Lack of charge in indictment dooms 1992 conviction 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: July 10, 2012
Tags: conviction, Court of Appeals, Declaration of Rights, indictment, jarmal johnson, lack of charge, maryland, maryland department of public safety and correctional services, north branch correctional institution, Office of the Maryland Attorney General, overturned

It’s never too late to challenge a conviction for an unindicted crime, Maryland’s top court has held. In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the Court of Appeals vacated Jarmal Johnson’s 1992 conviction for assault-with-intent-to-murder that had gone unchallenged for 16 years. Lower courts had decided that Johnson’s long silence — beginning with his trial attorney’s failure [...]

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