Unsupervised Probation

A former nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to one count of abuse of a vulnerable adult for slapping a resident at Millennium Health and Rehabilitation Center at Liberty Heights in Northwest Baltimore, the Maryland Attorney General's office announced yesterday.Polla Darlene Bagwell, 41, of the 3400 block of Reisterstown Road slapped a 66-year-old man when he pulled away from her while she was assisting him, according to Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr.Bagwell pleaded guilty Thursday and city District Judge Norman E. Johnson Jr. ordered her to serve 12 months of unsupervised probation, perform 50 hours of community service and take no part in hands-on care at the nursing home for one year.

Illegally hunting deer about a quarter-mile from their Mount Airy homes on Oct. 26 has cost two hunters a total of $1,470 and their shotguns.At a hearing in Carroll District Court on Wednesday, Timothy Adam Lewis Nash, 30, was fined $1,080 for hunting out of season, failure to tag a deer, hunting without a license and hunting on property without written permission of the landowner.Steve Anthony Richardson, 29, was fined $390 for hunting out of season and hunting without written permission of the landowner.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge John G. Turnbull II put himself Monday in the shoes of a defendant charged with beating up a young man he had found hiding almost naked in his daughter's bedroom closet. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing," Turnbull said. "In some houses he would have been shot." Arlen Turpin, 53, was accused of administering such a severe pistol-whipping to Andrew Taylor, 19 - who admitted to having conducted a "risky" sexual relationship with Turpin's 16-year-old daughter - that he fractured his skull.

Baltimore police executing a search warrant seized a semiautomatic rifle and arrested a felon who was using a valid driver's license with a fake name, police said. The Police Department's computer crimes division, investigating child pornography, conducted the search about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 4900 block of Greencrest Road in the Frankford neighborhood, police said. Inside, officers recovered a Hi-Point 9 mm rifle and "various digital media," police said. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said child pornography was not recovered.

Harford's Mothers Against Drunk Driving group is upset that a convicted drunk driver who killed two police officers has been allowed unsupervised probation and that a woman charged six times with drunken driving was not sentenced in five of the cases.MADD members say they are worried the two cases mean Harford's judges have lax attitudes about the danger drunk drivers pose to the community."It's incredibly frustrating," Kimberly Schaffel, coordinator of the county MADD group, said of the two cases.

A Frederick County woman accused of stealing more than $6,000 from a Mount Airy automotive repair shop pleaded guilty to felony theft yesterday in Carroll Circuit Court.In return for her plea, Anne Marie Delligatti, 30, of the 2800 block of Hawks Hill Lane in Keedysville was granted probation before judgment by Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. She was placed on three years of unsupervised probation, was ordered to make $2,424 in restitution within 90 days and agreed to perform 125 hours of volunteer community service within the next year in Washington County.

A Carroll County judge found Leroy Michael Buccini, 25, of Reisterstown, guilty yesterday of conspiracy to commit robbery in the theft of $200 from Sally Beauty Supply at the Cranberry Square shopping center.Buccini was sentenced to 18 months in the Carroll County Detention Center, where he has been detained since Westminster police arrested him after the incident Feb. 5.Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. suspended all but 18 months of a five-year sentence. At the end of the 18-month period, retroactive to Feb. 5, Buccini will begin three years of unsupervised probation.

A 31-year-old city man has received an 18-month suspended jail term and 18 months of unsupervised probation for beating a handicapped man.Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Thomas J. Bollinger last week found Charles A. Monroe, 31, of the 1100 block of Ashburton St., guilty of one count of vulnerable adult abuse and one count of battery, the Maryland attorney general's office said.Monroe was working as a bus driver for United Cerebral Palsy of Central Maryland on May 31 when he beat a 57-year-old patient during an argument.

A Westminster man charged with raping a female companion in October was found guilty of battery in Carroll County Circuit Court and given a suspended sentence yesterday. Judge Francis M. Arnold sentenced Gary Lee Grimes, 48, of the first block of Pennsylvania Ave. to three years in state prison, then suspended all but 182 days, the amount of time the defendant has spent in the Carroll County Detention Center since his arrest. He had been held on $100,000 bail. The judge also placed Mr. Grimes on five years of unsupervised probation and ordered him to have no contact with the victim, who is not being identified by The Sun to protect her privacy.

A suspended Anne Arundel County police officer pleaded no contest yesterday to a charge that he wrongly collected his county salary while not coming to work under the pretense of having been activated for Army Reserve duty in Iraq. Andrew Barnett Jr., 49, did not acknowledge guilt in the unusual agreement that included county prosecutors and the Police Department. Under the deal, prosecutors reduced a felony theft charge to a misdemeanor, the department accepted the resignation Barnett submitted a year ago and the county is deducting about two months of pay from the value of leave he was owed.