State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced on Friday morning that S. Dallas Dance, former superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, had been sentenced after pleading guilty in March to four counts of perjury arising from false filings of his Financial Disclosure Statements for 2012, 2013, and 2015. Judge Kathleen G. Cox imposed a sentence of 5 years, and suspended all […]
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Robin Summers-Grace, 50, of Baltimore, to 42 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Summers-Grace’s co-conspirator, Joseph Pauling, 40, of Essex, was sentenced to 6 years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. Judge Hollander ordered both defendants to […]
A Nottingham man has been sentenced to prison on child pornography charges. Allen D. Isner, 52, was sentenced to four years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release earlier this month. Isner pled guilty to possession of child pornography. The judge in the case ordered that, upon his release from prison, Isner must register as a sex offender […]
Two Baltimore-area men have been sentenced to prison in connection with food stamp fraud. In August 2016, a federal grand jury returned nine indictments charging 14 retail store operators in the greater Baltimore area with food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with obtaining over $16 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by illegally trading food stamp […]
A Nottingham woman was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday in connection with wire fraud and bank embezzlement charges. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Melissa Strohman, 54, to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at Hopkins Federal Savings Bank, […]
Baltimore, Maryland – On Monday, a U.S. District Judge sentenced Muhammad Sarmad, 41, of Nottingham, to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. At the sentencing, the judge also ordered that […]
An Essex man will be spending the next decade in prison. On Friday, a judge sentenced Carl Javan Ross, 30, to 10 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for receipt and possession of child pornography. The judge ordered that the federal sentence be consecutive to the state sentence Ross is currently serving for sexual abuse of a minor. […]
A Parkville man who filmed underage girls with a so-called “x-ray lens” will be spending lots of time behind bars. A U.S. District Judge on Friday sentenced Ruben Uy Lim, 53, of Parkville, Maryland, to 10 years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. In addition, Lim has admitted taking hundreds of videos […]