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Friday, February 22, 2013

North Laurel Man Sentenced to 90 Days for Growing Marijuana

The man will be able to complete his graduate MBA studies before completing his sentence.

A former Baltimore City police technician who pleaded guilty to growing over 140 marijuana plants in his North Laurel home was sentenced to 90 days in jail in Howard County Circuit Court on Thursday. Manoj P. Unni, 31, will be allowed to complete his graduate MBA studies and then begin his sentence on June 1, according to Wayne Kirwan, a spokesperson for the Howard County state's attorney's office. Unni was arrested in May 2012 after police officers found a large marijuana growing operation in his house while serving a search and seizure warrant. The prosecutor, Doug Nelsen, said Unni was not a typical first-time offender, who used calculated and sophisticated decision-making to violate Maryland's laws, according to Kirwan. Unni's defense …

Thursday, August 16, 2012

HCPSS Assistant Principal Sentenced For Credit Card Thefts

Patricia Kelly Murray will spend time in jail.

  A Howard County high school assistant principal will spend 90 days in prison for stealing colleagues’ credit cards, according to a spokesman for the State’s Attorney’s Office. Patricia Kelly Murray, 40, of Severna Park, pleaded guilty in June to stealing credit cards from a vice principal at Long Reach High School and a principal at Laurel Woods. Prosecutors said Murray, who was an assistant principal at Howard High School, made eight purchases worth nearly $1,800 on Dec. 15 of last year using the vice principal’s card. In another instance, Murray used a credit card from the principal to “obtain gifts for her family.” Judge Dennis Sweeney Thursday sentenced Murray to five years in prison, suspending all but 90 days. According to Howard …

Kelley Pitts

12:17 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012

I believe she met the Laurel Woods principal while at Harper's and another charge that seems to have disappeared, perhaps from the plea deal was a victim while at Harper's. I do have children at Harper's and I am glad to know the outcome!   more ›

Monday, June 4, 2012

Columbia Man to Serve 280 Days for Infant Assault

The 19-year-old Columbia man admitted to throwing his 10-week-old son to the ground and stomping on him during an argument in July of 2011.

  Tre C. Jackson, 19, who pled guilty to second-degree child abuse and second-degree assault in April for throwing his infant son to the ground during an argument with the baby’s mother was sentenced to 280 days in prison on Thursday. The Howard County Circuit Court judge sentenced Jackson to 8 years for the second-degree child abuse charge, but suspended 7 years, 2 months and 24 days, leaving 280 days to serve in prison. On July 10, 2011 Jackson, of the 6900 block Deep Pasture Drive in Columbia, was reportedly arguing with the mother of his son when he took the 10-week-old baby from the mother’s arms and threw it face down into the pavement and stomped on him three times, according to the statement of facts report from the case. Jackson …

People Make Me Sick

5:44 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012

This whole case was a lie and I really don't appreciate any of your comments if you don't know the whole story that means what really happened and not what was "presented" in the court room and if you didn't sit in the court room, know the person and family keep your comments to yourself.   more ›

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