Ex-cop ran gambling ring A former D.C. police officer has admitted to running an illicit gambling operation out of his St. Mary’s County home. Darrell Alphonso Carter pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Greenbelt to one count of conducting an illegal gambling business, court records show. Plea documents say he hosted dice games, charged people to participate and made more than $2,000 on days he ran the games. Carter ran the games from January 2008 to September 2009, according to court records. He and 11 others in the gambling and drug ring were charged in September 2009. A search of Carter’s home uncovered dice, a ledger with gambling information and six firearms. Court documents say they kept the guns to protect the operation.
Hospital worker gets jail
A former employee of Georgetown University Hospital was sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing more than $86,000 from a nonprofit organization at the hospital. Frankie Renee Kennedy, of Largo, worked at the hospital from 1998 to 2010, and was responsible for the operations of the Transplant Institute Foundation, which provided financial assistance to patients for medication, housing and other needs. In 2005, Kennedy began to write checks to herself from the foundations bank account, and used a doctor’s signature stamp without the doctor’s knowledge.
Md. man indicted by FBI
A federal grand jury has indicted a Maryland man accused of duping law enforcement and educational institutions by posing as an expert in terrorism and human trafficking. Prosecutors say William G. Hillar, 66, of Millersville, had been conducting training under fraudulent pretenses for at least the past 12 years. Hillar ran a business called Bill Hillar Training and purported on his Web site and in other materials to be a retired Army colonel who served overseas and had received a doctorate from the University of Oregon. He also boasted in his appearances that he was the inspiration for the 2008 action movie “Taken.” – Scott McCabe
Scott McCabe
