A 29-year-old man was sentenced last week to eight years in prison, with all but one year and one day suspended, for stealing copper wire from Delmarva Power numerous times to subsidize his heroin addiction.
“If you had taken the effort you put forth in breaking into these [electrical substation] yards into rehabilitation, you’d be better off,” Judge Thomas C. Groton III told Timothy Hughes of Ocean Pines in Circuit Court in Snow Hill on Aug. 1.
Hughes had pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to steal items with a value of a least $10,000, but less than $100,000. In exchange for that guilty plea, many charges against him were not prosecuted.
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God forbid the news report all these copper thefts and drug relations. Its bad PR and all the locals can continue to dream about how this place is supposedly some kind of "utopia". lol. Ignorance is bliss on the shore.
ReplyDeleteI blame it on poor upbringing and a lack of God in ones life.
ReplyDeleteI think the judge should have to do time for his verdict.give me a break! 1 Year out of 8. No wonder there are repeat offenders.
ReplyDeleterates are going up b.c DP gotta replace the wire, funny.
ReplyDeleteserious consideration to longer sentencing is a good idea if it weren't for the fact that overcrowding is so bad that they would have to let someone out that committed far worse to let him stay. Besides...the real crime is learned in prison.
ReplyDeleteMake it so you have to have a permit to sell copper and register all sales.
ReplyDeleteIf people truly knew what was going on with the "system" there would be a huge outcry. How about serving only 4-5 months on an 18 month sentence? Even a 10 year mandatory no parole sentence is maybe about 6 years.
ReplyDeleteUtopia my a..! The liberal judges here are a joke! I lived right around the block from we're this moron was arrested. Tried to hide in his daddies house while the police roamed outside knowing he was in there the whole time. He was a useless piece of crap the whole time he lived there. I am sorry at 28 you can't blame the parents he's a grown adult. Sadly he deserved a lot more time than he got! He will be a repeat offender no doubt.... shame he has a very cute little daughter who deserves much more......
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