Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Derrick Hill was the ringleader of an identity theft scheme that claimed 250 victims, including fellowship applicants at Johns Hopkins Hospital and clinic patients in Highlandtown.
A Woodlawn man who federal prosecutors said was the ringleader of a large identity theft scheme was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison. Derrick Hill, 53, will also serve three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $191,180.26 in the ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein's office. Three accomplices—John Coffey, Tawney King and Hill's girlfriend Renee Cabell—have also pleaded guilty. Last week, a judge sentenced Cabell to 30 months and Coffey to 57 months in prison, and each was ordered to pay $191,180.26 in restitution, according to the U.S. attorney's office. King will be sentenced Thursday. The total value of damages in the case, which had more than …
Monday, November 19, 2012
Naveed Sheikh could face up to five years in federal prison.
A Baltimore man faces up to five years in federal prison and millions of dollars in fines after pleading guilty Monday to distributing 1,000 copyrighted software programs, federal officials announced. In the plea agreement, Naveed Sheikh admitted conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 copies of software like Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Quicken and various operating systems using several websites, server space in Scranton, PA and at a Bel Air home between February 2003 and April 2008. Sheikh allowed purchasers to either download the software or have it shipped to them. Sheikh informed customers that the software had been "cracked"—illegally circumventing copy protection, according to prosecutors. He accepted payments via a P.O. box …
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Court action delays changes to state's law that would have gone into effect next week until a hearing in October.
A federal ruling striking down part of Maryland's requirements to obtain a permit to carry a handgun won't go into effect next week after all. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Wednesday granted the state's request to delay an order issued last week by U.S. District Court Judge Benson Everett Legg. The appeals court ordered that state requirements on those seeking a permit to carry a gun must have "a good or substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such as a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger" remain in effect until an appeals hearing the week of Oct. 23. Legg struck down the requirement earlier this year and on July 24 denied a state's request to stay his…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
State sought delay in implementing ruling that declared Maryland's "good and substantial reason" requirement for a gun permit was unconstitutional.
UPDATED (4:16 p.m.)—A U.S. District Court judge has lifted a stay on a federal court ruling that declared Maryland's permitting process to wear and carry a gun unconstitutional. The order, issued by Judge Benson Everett Legg, lifts a stay sought by the state as it appeals the decision made last year. Legg's ruling, which goes into effect in 14 days, lifts the stay sought by the state after a federal court ruled that the law requiring those seeking a permit to carry a gun must have "a good or substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such as a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger." David Paulson, a spokesman for Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, said the ruling "is…
Ken Jennings
8:49 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
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