A former Montgomery County police officer has pleaded guilty to using law-enforcement databases to help her drug-dealing fiance operate a cocaine ring.
Prosecutors said 37-year-old Delores Culmer admitted that she used her police powers to get unauthorized information at least 20 times between August 2008 and April 2010. She pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Greenbelt.
A criminal complaint was filed against Culmer last month, accusing 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.
Culmer was still on the Montgomery force when she was charged, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office identified her Wednesday as a former officer. A police spokeswoman said she didn’t know when Culmer left the department.
Culmer faces up to five years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced June 13.
