A former Montgomery County police officer has been sentenced house arrest for using law enforcement databases to look up information for her fiance.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow ordered 38-year-old Delores Culmer to serve five months of home detention with electronic monitoring. She pleaded guilty in April, admitting that she used her police powers to get unauthorized information at least 20 times between August 2008 and April 2010.
A criminal complaint filed against Culmer in March accused her of accessing law enforcement databases to help her fiance — who is a convicted drug dealer, court records show — obtain information about drug associates, which he used to track down customers who owed him money. Her plea agreement says she used the databases to do wanted-persons checks on her fiance and someone her sister was having a dispute with, as well as vehicle-records checks on her fiance’s brother and a person her fiance had a dispute with.
The maximum penalty for her offense was five years in prison.
