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Baltimore police officer pleads guilty to theft during sting
A Baltimore police officer accused of pocketing thousands of dollars during a staged sting operation in a hotel room has pleaded guilty to theft. Forty-seven-year-old Maurice Jeffers of Savage entered […]
Former Baltimore prosecutor and officer indicted in theft scheme
A former Baltimore prosecutor and a police officer have been charged with theft and misconduct in office stemming from a scheme involving fraudulent overtime slips. Molly Webb, a former Assistant […]
Skimming is the new purse snatching
I was having lunch and checking my bank account online one day recently when I realized that several hundred dollars had been removed through an ATM transaction two days earlier. […]
Man charged in theft during Ocean City fishing tournament
OCEAN CITY — A Maryland man has been accused of stealing fishing equipment from a fishing tournament in Ocean City. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that 38-year-old Dennis J. […]
In theft case, religion comes to the courthouse
We turn now in the book of Montgomery County civil litigation to chapter 398741. There was a church called Faith Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring. And the church was […]
Ex-Baltimore Behavioral Health CEO pleads guilty to theft
The former CEO of a Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc., a substance treatment center, pleaded guilty Tuesday to failing to pay $2.4 million in payroll taxes deducted from employees and diverting more than $50,000 from an employee benefit plan.
Hodes faces criminal charges for theft, embezzlement from sister
Michael C. Hodes, who was disbarred last year for allegedly taking some $270,000 from a deceased client’s trust fund, now faces charges of stealing more than $100,000 from his sister.
JOSEPH LEO BAUMGARTEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND
After providing only tenuous evidence linking Baumgarten to the crime scene, the State failed to show any other evidence that he was with Marketti on the day of the crime.
NELSON CLIFFORD v. STATE OF MARYLAND
Appellant presents one issue for our review: whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury on the “claim of right” defense to the charge of theft.
IN RE: TARIQ S.
Tariq contends that there was no evidence from which a rational fact-finder could conclude that he committed a breaking and entering, a required element of both third and fourth-degree burglary, and, further, that there was not sufficient evidence to support the court’s finding that he committed theft.
Montgomery County man gets 1½ years for stealing neighbor’s tractor
(AP) A Montgomery County man will spend the next 18 months in jail after being caught riding his neighbor’s stolen $10,000 tractor. The tractor, used for mowing grass, plowing snow […]
Ex-law office manager sentenced for theft
The former office manager of one of Montgomery County’s oldest law firms was sentenced to 18 months' detention for stealing more than $600,000 from the firm over the course of eight years.
