A former executive assistant to a CEO of a Montgomery County-based company was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison for stealing more than $150,000 from her employer. Diane Jansen, 54, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release ...

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The owner of Richland Homes was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday for making false statements in a real-estate closing. Timothy L. Ritchie, 44, will then serve 12 months of home detention with electronic monitoring equipment ...

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A former Columbia attorney received a 60-day suspended jail sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to theft for stealing more than $28,000 from a client, according to the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office. Charles J. Broida had been retained by an ...

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Maryland should save prison beds for serious and violent officers, improve probation and parole supervision and take other steps that could reform the state’s criminal justice system and save money, a panel appointed by the governor recommended Thursday. The Justice ...

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Former insurance executive Jeffrey B. Cohen was sentenced Thursday to 37 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to insurance fraud and obstruction of justice, among other charges. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. called Cohen “clever, ...

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A Baltimore man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for the federal crime of rioting, including the arson of a CVS Pharmacy during April’s civil unrest. Raymon Carter, 24, must also pay $500,000 in restitution, according to federal ...

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The former CEO of Baltimore Behavior Health Inc. was sentenced Friday to two years in prison followed by six months of home detention after pleading guilty to failing to pay $2.4 million in payroll taxes deducted from employees and diverting ...

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GREENBELT — A former special education teacher has sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for possessing child pornography. Sixty-one-year-old Peter Flynn of Silver Spring was sentenced Monday in federal court in Greenbelt. According to his plea agreement, Flynn, a ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A state panel is eyeing changes to Maryland’s probation system to reduce the number of people who are incarcerated, using the savings to pay for additional drug and mental health treatment and other recidivism reduction programs. The Justice ...

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When sentencing began in September for Jeffrey Cohen, the former insurance executive convicted of wire fraud and lying to investigators, he faced a maximum of 57 years in prison. When his hearing resumes next month, however, new sentencing guidelines will ...

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