House Arrest

About five days into testimony during Lamont Davis' attempted-murder trial last month, attorneys on both sides agreed — and told the jury — it was a fact that the defendant had violated terms of his house arrest, ordered during an unrelated case, more than 100 times.   About five days into testimony during Lamont Davis' attempted-murder trial last month, attorneys on both sides agreed — and told the jury — it was a fact that the defendant had violated terms of his house arrest, ordered during an unrelated case, more than 100 times.

Justin Matthew Beaumont, the 25-year-old Glen Burnie man who was charged with trespassing at an Anne Arundel County school — and who police said was later found to have a stash of legal, high-powered weapons at his home — has been ordered onto house arrest with electronic monitoring. On Wednesday, Annapolis District Court Judge Shaem Spencer ordered Beaumont released from the Anne Arundel County Detention Center, according to a spokeswoman for county prosecutors. Terms of his release include supervision, mental health care, taking medications, staying away from all school properties and prohibition from owning guns or being in a home where there are firearms.

The Baltimore woman who drove the getaway car from a double homicide outside an Odenton bar was placed on house arrest Thursday in exchange for pleading guilty to a role in the crime for which her boyfriend is serving five life sentences. Kecia M. Liverpool, 33, maintained her innocence in an Alford plea to one count of being an accessory after first-degree murder. The single mother of six boys did not know that her boyfriend, Russell "Yummy" Harden, 27, and two of his friends had just shot four men, two fatally, in a parked car early Nov. 16, 2008, defense attorney Carroll McCabe told Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II. In an Alford plea, a defendant acknowledges that prosecutors have evidence sufficient for a conviction, but does not admit guilt.

Dan McIntosh, one of the owners of Sonar, has been named in a federal indictment alongside some 14 individuals for participating in a cross-country drug distribution ring, City Paper reported today citing court documents filed in Florida in December. Over the phone, McIntosh responded to the charges by saying he intends on pleading "not guilty," and that Sonar, which closed temporarily in May, is not in any danger of shutting down again. The drug ring lasted for eight years and involved distributing California-grown marijuana in Maryland, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

Justin Matthew Beaumont, the 25-year-old Glen Burnie man who was charged with trespassing at an Anne Arundel County school — and who police said was later found to have a stash of legal, high-powered weapons at his home — has been ordered onto house arrest with electronic monitoring. On Wednesday, Annapolis District Court Judge Shaem Spencer ordered Beaumont released from the Anne Arundel County Detention Center, according to a spokeswoman for county prosecutors. Terms of his release include supervision, mental health care, taking medications, staying away from all school properties and prohibition from owning guns or being in a home where there are firearms.

The Baltimore woman who drove the getaway car from a double-homicide outside an Odenton bar was placed on house arrest Thursday in exchange for pleading guilty to a role in the crime for which her boyfriend is serving five life sentences. Kecia M. Liverpool, 33, maintained her innocence in an Alford plea to one count of being an accessory after first-degree murder. The single mother of six boys did not know that her boyfriend, Russell "Yummy" Harden, 27, and two of his friends had just shot four men, two fatally, in a parked car early on Nov. 16, 2008, defense attorney Carroll McCabe told Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge William C. Mulford II. In an Alford plea, a defendant acknowledges the existence of evidence sufficient for a conviction, but does not admit guilt.

A Severn man was sentenced to 15 months of house arrest Friday for an alcohol-related accident that killed a Crofton teen-ager last year.Michael Edward Shultz, 31, of the 1100 block Reece Road, was convicted in February of vehicular homicide while intoxicated in connection with an accident that killed 16-year-old Brian J. Haley, a baseball and football player at Arundel High School.Shultz, who told police he was unemployed when he was arrested, had faced a maximum penalty of five years in prison, said Assistant State's Attorney Kathleen E. Rogers.

An Anne Arundel County teenager who held up a Severn fast-food restaurant at gunpoint -- and left behind his cell phone -- was sentenced yesterday to a year of house arrest. Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer M. Alexander had requested 18 months of jail time for Michael Steven Williams, 19, of the 1500 block of Provincial Lane in Severn for the Oct. 27 robbery of Wings, Things & Pizza. Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II sentenced Williams, a Meade High School senior who netted about $270 in the theft, to a five-year sentence with all but one year suspended.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Robert H. Heller Jr. yesterday clipped short the house arrest of a man convicted of manslaughter in the July 1992 death of a homeless alcoholic.Adam Schlossman was convicted in 1994, along with friend Theodore Reshetiloff, in the death of Arch Baldwin, a 62-year-old Army veteran and former heavy equipment operator. According to testimony, the two 24-year-olds harassed Baldwin, poured beer and trash on him, pelted him with stones, urinated on him and shoved him into a gully in the first block of Jefferson Place in Annapolis, near Schlossman's home.

As the citizen task force considers alternatives to jail sentences to reduce the detention center population, two county council members say house arrest may be an option.Under house arrest, the inmate must remain at home unless the court authorizes travel, usually for work, school or a medical appointment. An electronic monitoring device assures compliance.Council members Edward Middlebrooks and George F. Bachman said they are especially interested in a sophisticated electronic monitoring system the county considered buying last year.

This is what happens when you reduce your big international trade mission to a tweet, as Maryland Economic Development Secretary Christian S. Johansson did: "Key take away from Governor and Madame Liu mtg at Chinese 'White House': 'There is more that unites us than divides us.'" Really? I can think of a few differences right off the bat: 1. In the U.S., we celebrate our Nobel laureates. In China, they imprison them. And their wives . 2. In China, the military massacres unarmed civilians . In the U.S., not so much.

A hearing is scheduled Tuesday morning to consider whether the Baltimore teen convicted of shooting a 5-year-old girl deserves another trial based on incorrect information lawyers told the jury. If he doesn't win a new proceeding, Lamont Daviscould spend the rest of his life in prison. A hearing is scheduled Tuesday morning to consider whether the Baltimore teen convicted of shooting a 5-year-old girl deserves another trial based on incorrect information lawyers told the jury. If he doesn't win a new proceeding, Lamont Davis, who turned 18 in April, could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Lamont Davis, the Baltimore teenager convicted in April of shooting two minors, including a 5-year-old girl, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus 30 years. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Gale E. Rasin denied a request by Davis' attorney, Assistant Public Defender Linwood Hedgepeth, for a new trial, a motion based on incorrect information lawyers told the jury. Hedgepath vowed to appeal. Davis, who turned 18 in April, faced a maximum term of life plus 61 years, according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office.

About five days into testimony during Lamont Davis' attempted-murder trial last month, attorneys on both sides agreed — and told the jury — it was a fact that the defendant had violated terms of his house arrest, ordered during an unrelated case, more than 100 times.   About five days into testimony during Lamont Davis' attempted-murder trial last month, attorneys on both sides agreed — and told the jury — it was a fact that the defendant had violated terms of his house arrest, ordered during an unrelated case, more than 100 times.

A Baltimore jury convicted teenager Lamont Davis on Thursday of attempted murder and handgun charges for the 2009 shootings that disabled Raven Wyatt, now 6 years old, and injured a teenager. It was Davis' 18 t h birthday. The case shocked the community both because of its disturbing content — children shooting children — and the circumstances under which the crime was committed. Davis, who has a long juvenile arrest record, was under house arrest at the time of the shooting.

The Baltimore woman who drove the getaway car from a double homicide outside an Odenton bar was placed on house arrest Thursday in exchange for pleading guilty to a role in the crime for which her boyfriend is serving five life sentences. Kecia M. Liverpool, 33, maintained her innocence in an Alford plea to one count of being an accessory after first-degree murder. The single mother of six boys did not know that her boyfriend, Russell "Yummy" Harden, 27, and two of his friends had just shot four men, two fatally, in a parked car early Nov. 16, 2008, defense attorney Carroll McCabe told Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II. In an Alford plea, a defendant acknowledges that prosecutors have evidence sufficient for a conviction, but does not admit guilt.

An article in the same section contained incorrect information about a plea agreement for a Mount Airy youth involved in a car crash that killed three people. The charges prosecutors dropped were less serious than the counts on which he was convicted.The Sun regrets the errors.In a voice punctuated by quiet sobs, Donny Eugene Simms stood before a Carroll Circuit judge yesterday and apologized for killing his sister and two of his best friends in a car accident last June."I never meant to hurt anybody," the 17-year-old South Carroll High School student said after he pleaded guilty to three counts of automobile manslaughter.

A former Magothy Middle School teacher was sentenced to six months of house arrest yesterday for conspiring with convicted drug trafficker James Todd Hibler to sell marijuana.Thomas Russell Rubins, 46, whose 25-year teaching career ended after his arrest last May, was placed under house arrest after Circuit Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr. suspended a one-year jail sentence. Thieme also placed Rubins on five years' probation.Prosecutors have said Rubins bought 2 pounds of marijuana a week from Hibler from December 1988 until Hibler's arrest in November 1989.

The Baltimore woman who drove the getaway car from a double-homicide outside an Odenton bar was placed on house arrest Thursday in exchange for pleading guilty to a role in the crime for which her boyfriend is serving five life sentences. Kecia M. Liverpool, 33, maintained her innocence in an Alford plea to one count of being an accessory after first-degree murder. The single mother of six boys did not know that her boyfriend, Russell "Yummy" Harden, 27, and two of his friends had just shot four men, two fatally, in a parked car early on Nov. 16, 2008, defense attorney Carroll McCabe told Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge William C. Mulford II. In an Alford plea, a defendant acknowledges the existence of evidence sufficient for a conviction, but does not admit guilt.

Michael Sidney Guest Jr. shot Jamal Taylor above the right eye with a .38-caliber revolver on Aug. 8, 1993. The killing occurred during an argument among teenagers inside an apartment on Forest Park Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. Both Taylor and Guest were 15. But Michael Sidney Guest Jr. didn't spend a lot of time in prison. His case file is convoluted, but boiled down, it shows he served just five years behind bars for second-degree murder. Sounding a familiar refrain, court records show Guest spent his short life ricocheting from the streets to drugs to police to judges to prison cells - and back to the streets again.