Article: MARYLAND TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON IN ARSON, INSURANCE FRAUD SCHEME

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives Baltimore Field Office issued the following press release:

U.S. District Judge Andre M. Davis sentenced a police officer for the Maryland Transit Administration ("MTA"), James Walthall, age 41, of Randallstown, Maryland, today to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with a scheme in which he arranged for the burning of a vehicle he owned and two vehicles owned by other MTA employees, in order to avoid repossession and further loan payments, and to have the car insurance companies pay the outstanding loan balances on the vehicles, announced United ...

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