Correctional Employees Convicted On Theft Charges Of Over $400,000

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland State Prosecutor announced that Kimberly Brown, a erstwhile Correctional Officer, pleaded blameworthy connected September 23 connected charges of Felony Theft Scheme and Misconduct successful Officer.

Brown was formerly assigned to the Metropolitan Transition Center (MTC) successful Baltimore.

Shantil Carter, a erstwhile Fiscal Technician assigned to MTC, plead blameworthy the aforesaid time to charges of Conspiracy to Commit Theft and Bribery. Six different erstwhile Correctional Officers person been convicted of akin charges successful the past 5 months.

In their pleas, some women acknowledged that they were adding other hours to their timesheets that they did not enactment during their clip arsenic Correctional Officers. Carter conspired with different officers to usage her entree to the Workday strategy to illegally inflate their enactment hours. In exchange, she received payments of respective thousands of dollars.

Brown improperly inflated her ain enactment hours connected astatine slightest 31 occasions, claiming an further 2,470 hours that she did not work. Her reporting resulted successful a corporate theft of $79,857.69 from the State of Maryland.

Carter improperly inflated the documented enactment hours for different Correctional Officer connected astatine slightest 163 occasions, resulting successful a corporate overpayment to the Correctional Officer of $33,858.00 from the State of Maryland. As a result, Carter was paid astir $4,910 by the Correctional Officer.

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“Ms. Brown and Ms. Carter abused their positions of spot to bargain wealth from Maryland taxpayers,” said Maryland Prosecutor Charlton Howard. “They, arsenic good arsenic six different Correctional Employees engaged successful akin acts astatine MTC, person present been held accountable. In summation to different penalties, the 8 individuals progressive person orders of restitution totaling $443,625.40. Our bureau volition proceed to analyse and wherever due prosecute immoderate allegation of transgression behaviour by authorities oregon section nationalist officials.”