From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office: Ralph Matthews, age 50, formerly of Dundalk, Maryland was sentenced May 24 by Judge Stephen M. Waldron of the Circuit Court for Harford County to serve 48 years in the Division of Corrections for two counts of child abuse and two counts of a third degree sex offense. […]
Baltimore City Police Officer Arrested for Sexual Abuse of a Minor at His Edgewood Home
From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office: On March 23, 2011, detectives from the Harford County Child Advocacy Center charged and arrested a Baltimore City police officer, Kevin Rowland, with sexual abuse of a minor, Fourth Degree Sexual Offense and Second Degree Assault. The alleged abuse occurred from September of 2010 until March of 2011 […]
California Woman Arrested for Sexual Abuse of 13-Year-Old Bel Air Boy She Met Playing XBox
From the Harford County Child Advocacy Center: Detectives from the Harford County Child Advocacy Center have charged Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, of Lake Forest, CA with two counts of Rape in the Second Degree and one count each of Sex Offense Second Degree and Sexual Solicitation. Hicks was arrested for the above charges by Orange […]
Bel Air Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison For Distributing Child Pornography Online
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore: U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Ronald Riggs, age 64, of Bel Air, Maryland, to five years in prison followed by supervised release for life for distributing child pornography. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special […]
Forest Hill Man Arrested On Child Sex Abuse Charges From Virginia
(Bel Air, MD) Troopers assist Virginia Beach (Va.) Police Department in child sex abuse investigation. On 09/02/09, troopers from the MD State Police- Bel Air Barrack arrested John David Wallace (Age 29) of the 1700 Block of Landmark Drive in Forest Hill on an out of state arrest warrant. The investigation began in mid June […]
Additional Indictment Of Fallston Middle Teacher/Coach Charged With Child Sex Offenses
Jonathan Stewart Dick, age 43, of Bel Air, Maryland, a physical education teacher at Fallston Middle School and high school lacrosse coach was indicted by a Harford County Grand Jury on July 28, 2009 on 18 counts involving Third Degree Sex Offense, Sodomy and Unnatural and Perverted Sex Practices involving a 14 year old male. […]
Convicted Sex Offender Formerly of Edgewood Hit With New Charges, Police Seek Other Victims
Irvine Gary Oelke, 74, formerly of Edgewood, Maryland was arraigned on 23 September 2008 in the Circuit Court for Harford County before Judge William O. Carr, on charges stemming from an indictment by the Grand Jury for Harford County on July 29, 2008. The Indictment charges Oelke with Sexual Child Abuse, Sexual Child Abuse/ Continuing […]