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| Officer Sentenced In Inmate Drug Sales |
| By Washington Post |
| Published: 11/06/2000 |
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A correctional officer who was convicted of smuggling heroin to inmates at the Patuxent Institution was sentenced recently by a Howard County Circuit Court judge to three years in prison. Calling his crime 'particularly egregious,' Judge Diane Leasure gave Frederick Leon Burchfield, 29, the maximum term under state sentencing guidelines. Burchfield told police that on 30 occasions, he acted as a runner for Patuxent inmates, picking up drugs and delivering them inside the walls, according to his attorney and Assistant State's Attorney Lara Weathersbee. His fee usually was $50. An April 6 incident, in which Burchfield bought drugs from an undercover officer posing as a dealer, was the only crime with which he was charged. Richard T. Rosenblatt, the director of Patuxent, testified that the institution's role as a treatment facility makes the crime especially troubling. 'Inmates, virtually to a man or woman, come in with a substance abuse problem,' he said. Burchfield had been a correctional officer for three years. His personnel record was otherwise clean. |
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