A former D.C. police officer has been sentenced for providing security services to a woman who was injecting commercial-grade silicone into customers’ buttocks, court records show.
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Martin Freeman was sentenced in federal court in Baltimore to three months in prison followed by one year of supervised release, according to court records. He also was ordered to pay restitution of about $8,100 and a fine of $10,000.
Freeman’s co-conspirator, Kimberly Smedley, pleaded guilty in March and was sentenced to three years in prison on July 12. She admitted to performing silicone injections on customers in hotel rooms in the District, Baltimore and other cities between 2003 and 2011, according to court documents.
Smedley told customers that the silicone was medical grade, but in reality it was intended for metal or plastic lubrication, as an additive for paint or in furniture or auto polishes. She stored the liquid silicone in an unlabeled water jug, injected the silicone using medical-grade syringes and then used super glue and cotton balls to prevent the silicone from leaking out, according to court documents.
In April, Freeman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to introduce a misbranded device into interstate commerce.
At that time, he admitted that he provided security in hotel rooms from 2009 to 2011 and was paid about $5,000. He admitted he was present when Smedley was paid by customers and when she performed injections, according to his plea agreement.
But at Smedley’s sentencing, Freeman’s testimony “was in direct conflict with the executed plea agreement,” according to a court document from Damani Ingram, his attorney. This remark comes from a motion Ingram filed to withdraw his appearance as Freeman’s lawyer — which also stated that Freeman was uncooperative with him and had expressed dissatisfaction with his services.
Ingram’s motion did not specify what Freeman said at Smedley’s sentencing that contradicted his plea agreement, and it was unclear Friday whether any changes were made to Freeman’s plea agreement after his testimony in Smedley’s sentencing. Ingram was listed as Freeman’s attorney on the sentencing order that a judge signed Thursday.
Freeman was fired from the District’s Metropolitan Police Department in 2005, after he and other police officers informed city officials that the department had set up what they said was an improper arrangement to provide security in the Gallery Place area.
