ELKTON â A North East man was sentenced to time served â slightly more than 15 months â after a jury found him guilty of three counts of simple drug possession at the conclusion of a half-day trial on Wednesday.
During his testimony on Wednesday morning, the defendant, Lamont E. Hall, 47, admitted ownership of a bag of crystal meth, a baggie of raw heroin and nine bundles of heroin mixed with fentanyl â all of which investigators had found during a pat-down search of him in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in the 200 block of East Pulaski Highway (Route 40) at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, 2020.
ELKTON â In December 2004, Pennsylvania State Police Det. John J. Comerford swore out an arrest warrant charging former Port Deposit-area resident Joseph Dwayne Griest with first-degree rape and related sexual assault offenses in that state.
Comerford did so even though Griest, who was 33 at that time, already was serving a 65-year prison sentence in Maryland in a related 1999 kidnapping case that had been handled in Cecil County.
His decision to secure that Pennsylvania arrest warrant more than 16 years ago loomed large on March 16.
Thatâs when Griest, now 49, received a 35-year prison term after pleading guilty to kidnapping and carjacking in his latest successful appeal of that dual-jurisdiction case relating to a 1999 abduction that started in Elkton and ended several hours later in Pennsylvania.
ELKTON â A woman is back in custody after she failed to appear for sentencing last week in a criminal case relating to her causing a chain-reaction crash that killed two Cecil County men near Chesapeake City in October 2018, according to the Elkton Police Department and court records.
EPD officers and members of the agencyâs Street Crimes Unit captured the defendant, Kimberly Ann Morgan, 30, of Chester, Pa., on Thursday while raiding a residence in the unit block of Hollingsworth Manor, police said. The court-approved search yielded two loaded handguns, one of which had been reported stolen in Wilmington, Del., police added.