Dirtbag Roundup: Matthew Scanlon sentenced to prison for attempting to buy sex with a child

According to the government’s evidence, on July 10, 2013, Scanlon contacted an undercover officer with the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force, who had posted an ad on a social networking site. Over the next few days, Scanlon engaged in e-mail and text message conversations with the undercover officer, whom the defendant believed was the father of an under-aged girl. During this period of time, Scanlon arranged with the undercover officer to meet for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with the child.

Murder USA: Who iced the cleaning lady? Cop say it was her drug biz partner

Upon arrival, officers found a deceased adult female victim inside of an office inside of the building. An employee, who works in the office building, found the victim. The female had obvious signs of upper body trauma. The office that she was found in was determined to be a gynecologist office. The victim, identified as Christie Lynn Pelland, worked as a cleaner for Spiritual Cleaning.

Two deputies injured during confrontations with dangerous criminals; two different outcomes

This point in the story of Deputy Greb and Deputy George is where the similarities end.
Deputy Greb, now a civilian St. Mary’s Sheriff’s employee, works as a background investigator collecting an annual salary of $31,640, likely less than half of what he would have been making had he not been shot. He also collects his disability retirement.
Deputy George had to use his own leave until it was exhausted, as after working for about a month, he had to admit he was a physical wreck with the intestinal uproar of a chronically ill person, making it impossible to work. He was diagnosed with classic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

Court official allowed to retire after sexual predator trial; now disbarred

Following three years of court actions after he was discovered to have been soliciting sex from who he believed were minor females, the Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Deputy Clerk, Robert John Greenleaf has been disbarred.
In the criminal charges brought in Caroline County by States Attorney Jonathan Newell, Greenleaf was accused of multiple communications with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, from a computer located in his home.
In the series of internet communications, Greenleaf repeatedly attempted to get the “girl” to leave her home and meet him for a sexual encounter and to produce a sex video.

Spring shoplifting season underway at Lowes: Drilling for pills in all the wrong places

Make that his ex-girlfriend after he called the cops and allegedly told them that his girlfriend had stolen his cell phone and his wheels. Police say that on May 15, 2014, Corporal Connelly responded to a residence on Sea Side View Road in Ridge, for a reported theft. The victim alleged his girlfriend, identified as suspect Rosilee Mary Bryant, 52, of Ridge, had taken his cell phone and vehicle, while he was asleep and without his permission

Druggies will be scurrying for new suppliers as cops disrupt multi-level marketing of cocaine on Eastern Shore

A combined local, state and federal law enforcement partnership has led to the disruption of a cocaine distribution network operating throughout the Upper Eastern Shore and the arrests of two dozen suspects.
Police believe three suspects were involved in directing the operation. The first suspect is identified as Adrian L. Reed, aka “Slick,” 37, of the 2200-block of Pondtown Road, Chestertown, Md.