Ex-Police Chief in Maryland Gets Multiple Life Terms in Series of Arsons
A former police chief in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life sentences for setting fires to the houses, garages and cars of people who prosecutors said he felt had slighted him.
Judge Richard S. Bernhardt of Howard County Circuit Court sentenced David M. Crawford, 71, a former chief of the Laurel Police Department, to eight life sentences plus 75 years in prison, according to the Howard County state’s attorney’s office.
Several of the terms are to run concurrently, but the sentence will keep Mr. Crawford off the streets for the rest of his life, Richard H. Gibson Jr., the state’s attorney, said.
“He was a law enforcement official,” Mr. Gibson said. “He should have been someone who understood justice, empathy and order. Instead, he acted in a violent way.”
Source: The New York Times
