Possession Of Marijuana

A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man convicted of dealing drugs to an undercover Carroll narcotics officer was sentenced last week to two years in state prison.Carroll Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. sentenced Joseph A. Parker to four years each on three counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, then suspended all but two years of each and ordered the terms to be served concurrently. The judge ordered Parker to serve five years' supervised probation after his release.Parker pleaded guilty to the three counts July 1. In a plea bargain, prosecutors dropped more than a dozen other charges and agreed to a two-year cap on prison time, said Judith S. Stainbrook, Parker's attorney.

Four arrested, suspected drugs seized by police Anne Arundel County police said they seized suspected marijuana worth more than $5,000 and arrested four people yesterday when they executed a search-and-seizure warrant on a residence in the 1600 block of Fairhill Drive in Edgewater. Residents Gerald Scott Debronkart, 39; William Bolyard, 32; and Richard Dale Hardesty, 23, were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, police said. Debronkart and Bolyard also were charged with possession with intent to distribute, police said.

An Anne Arundel County grand jury indicted yesterday four alleged members of a drug ring that police say formed the biggest marijuana distribution network in the county.The four were indicted under the Maryland drug kingpin statute.Patricia Emory, 45, principal of Severna Park Elementary School, was not indicted yesterday. Sources said Friday that her case was to be postponed.Mrs. Emory's husband, James Emory, 47, of the 1200 block of Villa Isle Court in Pasadena, was also indicted on charges of intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana and smuggling it into the state.

An Elkridge woman whose house alarm sounded Monday returned home to find police waiting -- to arrest her.Howard County officers charged 55-year-old Lucille Ballard of the 6400 block of Elibank Drive with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, among other charges. They said they found marijuana in plain view when they responded to the alarm call at her home.Police aren't sure how Ms. Ballard's alarm was activated, but it rang at a private alarm company about 11 a.m., said Sgt. Gary Gardner, a police spokesman.

A watchful Linthicum resident followed a man who was pushing his neighbor's lawn tiller down Patapsco Road Wednesday, then summoned county police, who caught a suspected thief in woods near the Nursery Road light rail station.Thomas Walsh told police he saw a man pushing the tiller past his house in the first block of Patapsco Road about 8 p.m. Walsh recognized the tiller -- it belonged to a neighbor, Diana Koltz -- but not the man, police said.Walsh ran to Koltz's house, and the two of them followed the man to the light rail station where they called police after they saw him push the tiller into the woods, police said.

An Elkridge man pleaded guilty yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court to one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.Jason W. Lewis, 19, was arrested on drug charges outside a Hampstead fast-food restaurant on April 22, court records show. Hampstead police said they found marijuana in Lewis' pockets and a marijuana pipe in his vehicle.Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. ordered a presentence investigation and set sentencing for Nov. 4.FireLineboro: Firefighters responded at 2: 24 p.m. Friday to an auto fire in the 3300 block of Meadow View Drive.

Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Raymond E. Beck yesterday found a 40-year-old Taneytown man guilty of one count of battery and one count of possession of marijuana.Judge Beck ordered Robert Lee Hicks, of Courtland Drive, to undergo a presentencing investigation and a psychological evaluation.On June 13, Mr. Hicks attacked his girlfriend, Sherry Lee Tyler, in her home in the 4000 block of Francis Scott Key Highway near Taneytown.The marijuana charge stems from a search of that home on Jan. 13 in which officers turned up one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana, two partially smoked marijuana cigarettes, some rolling papers and a .38-caliber handgun.

County police arrested a 20-year-old Severn man on drug charges Tuesday after stopping his at Ritchie Highway and Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard in Glen Burnie.Police said yesterday that Officer David K. Frendlich stopped the car shortly after 1:30 a.m. because it had only one working headlight.The officer smelled marijuana as he was speaking to the driver and searched the car, police said. He found a multicolored pipe and a substance that tested positive as marijuana in the ashtray on the dashboard and a package of smoking screens and rolling papers, police said.

Carroll County sheriff's deputies arrested a 23-year-old man yesterday and charged him with six counts of contributing to the condition of a child after a late-night party with alcohol and marijuana in Hampstead, authorities said. When sheriff's deputies arrived at the 1700 block of Fairmount Road, they found several intoxicated youths, ages 16 and 17, along with open beer cans, liquor, marijuana and a smoking pipe, police said. Charles Garard Schwing III of the 600 block Skyline Way in Westminster, the only adult at the party, was arrested and taken to the county detention center.

Two Baltimore County teen-agers were released on their own recognizance after they were charged with drug-related offenses Friday.Tfc. Leonard A. Lucas said he found two 18-year-old women in a car at the rear of Carroll Community College in Westminster about midnight Thursday, smelled the odor of marijuana and saw a smoking pipe in the open glove compartment of a 1982 Chevrolet.Mary Kathleen Roerty of the 9500 block of Axehead Court in Randallstown and Kelly Lynn Duvall of the 9200 block of Wright Mills Road in Woodstock were charged with possession of marijuana.