Posts Tagged ‘sentence’
Laurel Man Gets 2 Years In Prison For Hate Crime, Other Charges
Convicted Child Sex Abuser Sentenced To 25 Years Behind Bars
A convicted sex abuser of a minor has received the maximum sentence possible of 25 years in prison.According to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office, Jeremy Houck was convicted in November following a two-day trial, and was sentenced last month. Prosecutors said the offenses occurred between 2011 and 2014, when the victim was under age…
Read MoreMan Receives Decades In Prison For Sex Abuse Of Minors
A convicted sex abuser of two minors has received a prison term of 45 years for each victim, to be served consecutively. According to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office, Franklin Rodriguez Gutierrez was found guilty following a two-day trial in December and was sentenced last week. Prosecutors said the crimes occurred between December 2012…
Read MoreWicomico Co. Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Woman’s Murder
A 25-year-old man gets life in prison (all but 40 years suspended) for his guilty plea to first-degree murder in the death of a woman whose body was found in Johnson Lake in Salisbury. According to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s office, Marquez Armstrong entered a guilty plea last October. A year earlier, prosecutors said…
Read MoreMan Gets 35 Years For Drug Distribution Conviction
A man has been sentenced to 35 years of incarceration for a drug distribution conviction. According to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office, 38-year-old Dwight Woods was arrested in August 2019 at a residence that prosecutors say was being used by Woods and a drug trafficking organization. An undercover officer was able to buy heroin…
Read MorePhotographer Kevin Fleming Sentenced For Tax Evasion
A well-known photographer has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for a guilty plea to federal tax evasion charges. 67-year-old Bruce Kevin Fleming of Milton, according to prosecutors, had not filed federal income tax returns or paid any such taxes since 1981. The charges on which he was indicted covered the years 2012-2016.…
Read MoreAdmitted Bank Robber Sentenced To 20 Years
Former Bank Director Admits To Making False Statements On Application
A former member of the Board of Directors at Hebron Savings Bank who also owned a local business and taught economics and finance at Salisbury University has pled guilty to making a false statement on a loan or credit application. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland said Thursday that 57-year-old Brian Thomas Twilley…
Read MoreGeorgetown Man Sentenced For “Swatting”
A Georgetown man has received a prison sentence of 37 months for his guilty plea in a “swatting” investigation that prosecutors said involved false reports to police departments and emergency dispatch centers in several states. 30-year-old Rodney Phipps pled guilty in January to five counts of making interstate threats and one count of making a…
Read More3 Sentenced In Connection With OC Sexual Assault
Three men are sentenced in connection with a sexual assault investigation in Ocean City. The Worcester County State鈥檚 Attorney鈥檚 Office says 45-year-old Larry Kendall and 22-year-old Kyle Davis, both of Elkton, were sentenced to serve 20 years in prison for second-degree rape. A third defendant, 24-year-old Damien Shiel of Baltimore, received 20 years with all…
Read MoreMan Sent To Prison For Assault At Homeless Encampment
A man is going to prison for 12 years for his guilty plea to assault charges. The Wicomico County State鈥檚 Attorney鈥檚 Office says 30-year-old Christopher Wolcott of Salisbury attacked a person in a homeless encampment in Salisbury following a fight last November. Prosecutors say Wolcott slashed the victim in the face several times with a…
Read MoreConvicted Child Sex Abuser Gets 90 Years In Prison
Berlin Man Gets 10 Years For Fatal Crash
A Berlin man has received a ten-year prison sentence, with all but four years suspended, for a conviction of homicide by motor vehicle while impaired by a controlled dangerous substance. According to the Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office, the charges against 32-year-old Bryan Lee Wersten resulted from a December 2018 incident in which a pickup…
Read MoreSalisbury Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison on Drug Charges
A Salisbury man has been sentenced on drug charges.聽 Earlier this month, 37 year old Johnathan Lewis was convicted of possession of heroin with the intent to distribute after an arrest in July of 2017 when he and another man led police on a high-speed chase.聽 The two fled from a DUI checkpoint and during…
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