Md. House speaker's wife is charged with DUI
The wife of House Speaker Michael E. Busch has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after her arrest early Wednesday in Annapolis, Maryland State Police said yesterday.
Cynthia A. Busch, 51, of Annapolis was driving north in an 2008 Mitsubishi Endeavor on Bladen Street about midnight Tuesday. She was pulled over after a state trooper observed her driving through flashing red lights at an intersection without stopping, police said.
When the trooper, Walter Johnson, approached Busch, the sole occupant of the vehicle, he smelled a strong odor of alcohol and initiated an investigation for driving under the influence, state police said in a statement. Busch was arrested shortly after midnight, police said.
She was taken to the state police barracks in Glen Burnie for processing and, after signing citations, was released about 2 a.m., police said.
"This is a regrettable incident that is being dealt with as a family matter," Michael Busch, an Anne Arundel Democrat, said in a statement. "Mrs. Busch accepts responsibility for her actions and she will cooperate fully as the legal process moves forward."
Josh Mitchell
Anne Arundel
NSA
Ex-employee sentenced in fraud
A federal judge has sentenced a former National Security Agency employee, who pleaded guilty to falsifying time sheets, to three years' probation, including six months of home detention.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake also ordered Robert W. Lucas, 50, yesterday to perform 100 hours of community service and to pay $37,000 in restitution to the agency, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced.
Lucas worked as a computer scientist at the agency's Fort Meade and Annapolis Junction headquarters, according to a plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
Between March 2006 and March 2007, Lucas submitted false time sheets claiming to have worked 786 hours more than he actually worked, prosecutors said.
The $37,000 in pay for those hours added up to about 37 percent of Lucas's salary for that period, prosecutors said.
Josh Mitchell
Annapolis
Fatal shooting yields 45-year prison term
A 22-year-old Annapolis man was sentenced to 45 years in prison yesterday after admitting that he fatally shot a 44-year-old man during an argument in Eastport.
