CECIL COUNTY MAN CONVICTED OF OPERATING ALARM SYSTEMS COMPANY WITHOUT REQUIRED BUSINESS LICENSE
(Pikesville, MD) – A Maryland State Police Licensing Division investigation into an unlicensed Cecil County security alarm company has resulted in the criminal conviction of the company’s owner.
Lawrence E. Echols, Jr., 29, of the unit block of Sweet Gum Lane, Elkton, Maryland, pled guilty on February 26, 2009 in Cecil County Circuit Court to operating a securities system business without a license. He was sentenced to probation before judgment, six months unsupervised probation, and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
The investigation began early in September 2008 when a trooper assigned to the Maryland State Police Licensing Division received a complaint reporting that Alarms Systems, Inc., located in the 2400 block of Theodore Road, North East, Cecil County, Maryland, was operating in Maryland without the required license issued by the Maryland State Police and employing unlicensed technicians.
Two days after receiving the complaint, the investigator assigned to the case responded to the company and contacted Echols, who identified himself as the owner. Echols advised the investigator that he took over ownership of the company from his father approximately eight years ago, and that he was aware of the requirements that mandate the licensing of Alarm System Agencies in Maryland. While at the company, the investigator explained the licensing requirements to Echols, and provided him with the required Maryland State Police application for an Alarm System Agency. He was instructed to promptly complete and submit the application.
As of October 29, 2008, an application for an Alarm System Agency from Echols had not been received by the Licensing Division. The investigating trooper immediately contacted the Cecil County State’s Attorney’s Office. After being briefed on the investigation, the State’s Attorney recommended that Echols be charged criminally.
On October 30, 2008, the investigating trooper served Echols with a criminal summons, charging him with engaging in a business without a license and misrepresentation- security systems technicians.
Any concerns Maryland citizens may have regarding the licensing of securities systems agencies or their technicians can contact the Maryland State Police Licensing Division at 410-653-4500.
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6 comments:
Great Investigation, however I'm sure the complaint to the state trooper came from a competing company.
Why are stories about Cecil County and Wilmington on sbynews? We want to read about and know about things in Salisbury and surrounding Wicomico...maybe some Somerset and Worcester, Sussex perhaps. Not so far away. Let those areas get reported to those people by THEIR bloggers!
Good idea to run this guy out of business and let him suck on the government teet! The state is simply concerned about getting license monies from people. I have a family member that owns an electrical business (legal that is). Not only is he required to hold a MD state license, he must also pay a fee to work in each city.
This is your liberal government working for you!
If he were an illegal alien they wouldnt of done a thing.
Alarming!!
It's really better for the dude to go out-of-business because after it is all said and done he would have been better off on food stamps.
My daddy used to always say,
'Better to lay down and
die than to die working'
In Maryland, there is more incentive to go out of business rather than to stay in business.
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