On July 8, 2025, Gwendolyn Persina, aged 49, of Chester, Maryland, was sentenced to 3 years of incarceration to the Division of Corrections, with all but 315 days suspended, which is the time Ms. Persina has served in jail from the time of her arrest. Ms. Persina received this sentence as a result of her Read More
On May 12, 2025, Drew Bernard Meyer, a resident of Chester, Maryland, formerly a resident of New Jersey, entered a plea of guilty to Second Degree Murder. This plea stems from an incident that occurred on May 16, 2024, at 1002 Auckland Way in Chester. On May 17, 2024, members of the Queen Anne’s County Read More
On February 4, 2025, Steven P. Debra, aged 42, of Stevensville, Maryland, was sentenced to 10 years to the Division of Correction with all after 61 days time served suspended, for his conviction for second degree assault. Deba was also sentenced to thirty months of supervised probation, ordered to have a mental health evaluation and Read More
On January 8, 2025, Harry Risdon Lister, III, aged 62, of Grasonville, Maryland, was sentenced to 10 years to the Division of Correction with all after 27 days, time served, suspended for his conviction for second degree assault. Lister was also sentenced to thirty months of supervised probation, ordered to have a mental health Read More
On November 15, 2024, Rebekah Lynn Chaffins of Millington entered a plea of guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl. Ms. Chaffins was sentenced by the Hon. C. Lynn Knight of the Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court to 20 years, execution of the sentence suspended as to all but ten years to serve. Read More
On October 2, 2024, Ta’Bron Latray Todd of Hurlock entered a plea of guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and the serious traffic offense of fleeing and eluding a police officer on foot. Mr. Todd was sentenced by the Hon. C. Lynn Knight of the Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court to 20 Read More
On August 28, 2024, David Delroy Jones, III of Brooklyn, Maryland entered pleas of guilty in the Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court to Illegal Possession of a Firearm and Two Counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute. The Hon. C. Lynn Knight sentenced Mr. Jones to the maximum sentence of three five-year terms, consecutive, suspending Read More
On June 27, 2024, The Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court Judge sentenced William White Snyder, Jr. of Stevensville to 25 years, execution of the sentence suspended as to all but 16 years of active incarceration, on the Sex Abuse of a Minor, consecutive to 20 years, execution of the sentence suspended as to all but Read More
Article is courtesy of Hannah Combs at Chesapeake Publishing (Record Observer/Bay Times) CENTREVILLE — Grief and remorse filled the courtroom Friday morning as Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court Judge Lynn Knight heard testimony from friends and family on both sides of the sentencing hearing of Yassin Alallaq who earlier pleaded guilty to criminally negligent Read More
On April 24, 2024, William White Snyder, Jr. of Stevensville entered a pleas of guilty in the Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court to Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine (Case No. C-17-CR-23-000473) and Sexual Abuse of a Minor (Case No. C-17-CR-23-000534). After a long-term investigation into Mr. Snyder’s suspected drug activity, the Queen Anne’s County Read More