Report: Rodney Getlan Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud

Getlan was accused of stealing more than $100,000 from his victims.

Rodney Getlan, a Baltimore  County resident, faces decades in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud. Getlan was sentenced to 35 years in prison with 10 years suspended this week, according to a report by WBAL-TV. He defrauded as many as 48 victims in the Baltimore area and elsewhere, it states. In September, he pleaded guilty to nine counts of mortgage fraud, according to another WBAL-TV report. Court records showed that Getlan is accused of stealing mortgage payments from customers of a loan modification business he ran between January 2009 and January 2012, according to a Patch report. The alleged thefts resulted in two homeowners losing their homes to foreclosures. What do you think of the length of his sentencing? Tell us in the …

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Pikesville Man Gets Prison for Armed Robberies, Drugs

Brian Johnson was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to drug offenses and conspiring to commit six armed robberies through December 2009.

District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced a Pikesville resident to prison on Tuesday for conspiring to commit six armed robberies and to distribute drugs. According to a news release from the U.S. District Court of Maryland in Baltimore, Brian Johnson, 35, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and five years of supervised release for crimes he committed through 2009. Johnson conspired to commit six armed robberies in 2009, including at fast food restaurants along Reisterstown and Liberty roads, the news release states. Those robberies took place in Milford Mill, Owings Mills, Baltimore City and Cockeysville. And from 1996 to 2009, Johnson conspired to distribute heroin, cocaine, cocaine base (crack) and marijuana to prisons or in …

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Pikesville Man Sentenced for Smuggling Drugs to Dad

Herald Mail: Family friend tells judge "He was seeking his father's love."

Edward Dennis Dorsey, 20, of Pikesville, was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling drugs to his father, a convict, the Herald Mail reports. According to court records, Dorsey, Edward Dennis Dorsey IV, resides in the 8100 block of Scotts Level Road. On June 27, Dorsey was being searched at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, before he visited his father there, when "a plastic package fell from his boxer shorts," the article states. Inside it were morphine, Suboxone and marijuana, it states. According to the article, "He was seeking his father's love," a friend of Dorsey's family told Circuit Court Judge Donald E. Beachley during the sentencing Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court.

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Jewish Leaders in DC Hold Vigil for Alan Gross

Milford Mill Academy, University of Maryland grad imprisoned for 15 years for bringing in cell phones, computers to Cuba.