Metro Briefs

MARYLAND

PRINCESS ANNE

UMES police arrest four in campus thefts

Campus police at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) have made four arrests and expect to make more in connection with a series of thefts.

The thefts include $20,000 worth of computer equipment taken last summer from the Hazel Hall education building. Four former students were charged in that case.

The items were recovered last fall at an address in Bowie. Three men are awaiting trial and a fourth, Byron Stoddard, 20, of Landover, has been found guilty and has agreed to pay $5,000 restitution.

SALISBURY

Woman enters plea to letting teens drink

A Pittsville woman will avoid jail time on charges that she hosted a drinking party for teenagers in her home.

Janet Lane, 44, entered an Alford plea Monday on a charge of having a disorderly house. The plea was a concession that there is sufficient evidence for a conviction but is not an admission of guilt.

In exchange for the plea, multiple charges of reckless endangerment and contributing to the condition of a child were placed on the inactive docket.

Mrs. Lane was ordered to pay $357 in fines and costs.

Court documents say five persons who attended the September party had blood-alcohol levels above the legal limit, including a 15-year-old boy who was taken to a hospital.

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