Home Detention

A 46-year-old Columbia woman was sentenced to 10 months of home detention and four additional years of probation Friday for inflating the hours she worked as a contractor to overbill the National Security Agency by nearly $109,000, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Ann Warwick worked for Business Consulting Technology LLC, a subcontractor providing intelligence analyst services for the NSA, from August 2009 to July 2010, when she's accused of adding 836 hours to her time sheets, at a rate of more than $100 per hour.

Saying the offenses strike at the "values of this nation," a judge sentenced Paul E. Schurick, the campaign manager of former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., to home detention and community service Thursday for approving automated Election Day telephone calls to keep black voters from the polls. The sentencing went forward even as Schurick's attorneys sought a new trial, alleging that the credibility of a key prosecution witness has been undermined. Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill spared Schurick prison time by suspending a one-year sentence and forgoing fines.

Anne Arundel County Police Lt. James B. Cifala was released from federal custody Tuesday, his lawyer said, after having been previously ordered held without bail on charges he received child pornography in the form of sexually explicit text messages from a teenager. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake put Cifala, 47, on a home detention program pending trial, said his attorney, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. White. Cifala was arrested this month after FBI agents alleged he had had an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl.

Gale Terera Roland, a Baltimore woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 shaking death of 10-month-old Micha Crane, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week, with all but two years of the term suspended. Roland, 53, is to serve her time on home detention, according to the infant's mother, Danielle Crane, who said she was disappointed by the sentence. "I'm very frustrated," Crane said. "I think that the court system had no regards for my child's human life. " Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, called Micha's death "a terrible tragedy and an enormous loss.

A Baltimore teenager nicknamed "Murder" was facing new assault charges Monday, three days after he was placed on house arrest and equipped with a tracking monitor to deter criminal activity. The case is raising more questions about whether home monitoring, particularly that backed by an ankle bracelet global positioning device, can keep the public safe from potentially violent juvenile offenders. Last month, another teen, Lamont Davis, was convicted of attempted murder while on the same GPS system.

A 44-year-old Ellicott City man who operated what police described as a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation discovered after a sports car crashed into his residence and caught fire will spend six months on home detention. Howard County Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure sentenced Richard Marriott on Tuesday to five years in prison, but suspended all but six months, and ordered him to pay a $1,500 fine. Marriott's attorney, Leonard Shapiro, said in court that his client was "certainly not living the lifestyle of a drug dealer.

Baltimore County jail inmates, following their own moral code, have made life hard for a former county recreation supervisor who pleaded guilty to fondling an 11-year-old boy who was on his soccer team.So the former supervisor, Ronald Kiewe, 35, traded the relative freedom of a 60-day sentence in a work-release program for the virtual isolation of "protective custody," where he spends 23 hours a day alone in a six-by-eight-foot cell at the county detention center.But Circuit Judge J. Norris Byrnes, who sentenced Kiewe on Nov. 29 after his guilty plea on a third-degree sex offense, refused to change Kiewe's sentence to home detention yesterday after a plea by the prisoner's lawyer.

A man accused of filming a teenage girl in a sex act at a Carroll County hotel was sentenced yesterday to six months of home detention. George William Curran III, 54, of Germantown was also placed on probation for two years and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service over the next year after being found guilty of one count of contributing to the condition of a child yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court. Curran was charged with three such counts, according to court documents.

WESTMINSTER -- Sheriff John Brown would like the county to start a home-detention program to ease overcrowding at the jail and reduce the cost of incarceration.On Friday, in an effort to move the project ahead, Brown invited county government and judicial officials to a briefing by BI Industries, a provider of home-detention services."We are now at capacity at the jail, and even with the new expansion we are not going to have enough space," Brown said.The jail's capacity is about 120 inmates, but Brown says inmates have had to sleep in the hall when there have been 112 inmates.

A man released from prison in September and put on a watch list of the state's most violent offenders has been arrested in the rape of a 14-year-old girl who police said was lured into a van in West Baltimore and attacked by five men. The suspect, 22-year-old Lucky Christopher Crosby Jr., was wearing a state prison-issued GPS monitor on his ankle when he was arrested this weekend, police said, allowing detectives to pinpoint his precise movements when...

A 46-year-old Columbia woman was sentenced to 10 months of home detention and four additional years of probation Friday for inflating the hours she worked as a contractor to overbill the National Security Agency by nearly $109,000, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Ann Warwick worked for Business Consulting Technology LLC, a subcontractor providing intelligence analyst services for the NSA, from August 2009 to July 2010, when she's accused of adding 836 hours to her time sheets, at a rate of more than $100 per hour.

A 44-year-old Ellicott City man who operated what police described as a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation discovered after a sports car crashed into his residence and caught fire will spend six months on home detention. Howard County Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure sentenced Richard Marriott on Tuesday to five years in prison, but suspended all but six months, and ordered him to pay a $1,500 fine. Marriott's attorney, Leonard Shapiro, said in court that his client was "certainly not living the lifestyle of a drug dealer.

A 27-year-old West Friendship man will spend six months in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to driving while impaired in the death of a 16-year-old Elkridge boy who had snuck out of his house around midnight with to bicycle to a local convenience store with two friends. Aaron Jacob Lorsong, a Ph.D. student and medical researcher, hit the rear of Benjamin Wortman's bicycle on Route 108 about a mile from the youth's home at 12:34 a.m. Aug. 28, 2009. Lorsong told police the boy was in the roadway in front of his Nissan Altima.

Typically, prisoners who are on work release get to leave the inside of the jail to work outside the fence, and then must return. David Newton, on home detention awaiting trial on drug and burglary charges, had an opposite course. He would leave his home to go to work inside the jail, and would then return to his house at the end of the day, as a condition of his pre-trial release. So prison officials were perplexed Wednesday afternoon when they said the 19-year-old Newton, who was not cuffed or shackled, ran from correctional officers who were escorting him to the laundry room at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, still serving a sentence for defrauding clients and conspiring to bribe public officials, has a new job: He's selling pizzas in Baltimore rather than influence in Washington. Abramoff, recently released from a federal prison camp in Cumberland to a halfway house in Baltimore, began working Monday at Tov Pizza on Reisterstown Road. "I think people get a second chance," said Ron Rosenbluth, owner of the shop, which boasts of the city's best kosher pizza — which means lots of veggie options but no meat.