Two Baltimore women admitted Wednesday to intimidating a witness in a discreet place: The parking lot of a police station.
Janice Jones, 27, and Dakia Frazier, 23, pleaded guilty to witness intimidation and were sentenced to time served in Baltimore City Circuit Court by Judge Roger Brown.
Officers didn?t have to look far to arrest the duo.
Jones and Frazier drove a female witness in an attempted-murder case to the Eastern District Police Station at 4:40 p.m. on Aug. 17 and demanded she recant a previous incriminating statement made against Frazier?s live-in boyfriend, Kevin Jackson.
Jackson is being held without bail on armed robbery and attempted first-degree murder charges.
“She [the witness] advised me of the situation and began to cry,” Detective Dawnyell Taylor wrote in a report. “I immediately was alarmed that something was wrong. I began to investigate and determined that the two women were waiting outside next to the police station for the witness to complete her task.”
Taylor arrested Jones and Frazier and learned they had repeatedly attempted to persuade the witness to change her statement.
After being arrested Aug. 14, Jackson contacted Frazier, who sought the witness, the police report states.
The two women then approached the witness three times; she eventually agreed to let them drive her to the police station, according to charging documents.
“The witness was supposed to come inside and ask detectives to free Kevin Jackson,” Taylor wrote.
