A Montgomery County police officer is facing cocaine-trafficking and computer-fraud charges for allegedly helping her drug-dealing fiancé get information about associates and hide his assets.
A criminal complaint was filed against 37-year-old Delores Culmer in federal court in Greenbelt on Wednesday.
The complaint alleges that she accessed law-enforcement databases to help her fiancé obtain information about drug associates. In one instance, the complaint says, she checked vehicle-registration records for the girlfriend of a drug customer who owed her fiancé money. Those records gave Culmer and her fiancé the current address of the drug customer, and the two vehicles were later vandalized and targets of arson, the complaint says.
Culmer is also accused of putting assets, including two homes, in her name to hide her fiancé’s ownership of them. Her fiancé gave her $30,000 in cash from drug proceeds to buy her Silver Spring home, which he then used as a safe haven from drug activities, court documents say.
U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a statement that no other police officers are believed to be involved in the scheme. Culmer has served on the Montgomery force since July 2003, police spokeswoman Lucille Baur said. She was working as a patrol officer in the fourth district.
