Crack

A Hagerstown woman was sentenced to four years in state prison after pleading guilty Tuesday in Washington County Court to distribution of crack cocaine. Judge W. Kennedy Boone III sentenced Linda Carol Knapp, 36, of 139 Summit Ave., Apt. 3, to 10 years in prison, but suspended six years. “You’ve been to the women’s prison before. Guess what? You’re going back,” Boone told Knapp, who reminded the judge that he had sentenced her in 2003 to eight years in prison with five years suspended.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. - The Hagerstown Suns took advantage of four Lakewood errors for three unearned runs Friday in an 8-4 victory. Hagerstown starter Jonathan Niese (6-1) notched his league-leading sixth victory. Nick Evans had two hits and drove in two runs for the Suns.

Police to crack down on cruising Motorists seen cruising in downtown Hagerstown will be ticketed beginning today, according to Hagerstown City Police Chief Arthur Smith. Smith said signs warning people against cruising will be up by today and officers will be on the lookout. Cruising is prohibited along East Franklin and East Washington streets between Potomac Street and Cleveland Avenue from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Cruising is defined as driving past a point in the designated area three or more times during a two-hour period.

Pleading guilty to two counts of felony theft, Laura Renee Hade blamed her crack cocaine habit for the pawning of new and antique handguns belonging to her live-in companion last summer. Hade, 37, of the 13000 block of Kenneth Street, was given a three-year suspended prison sentence by Washington County Circuit Judge Donald Beachley. He also suspended a concurrent three-year sentence for the second count of felony theft. "We're back together now," said Calvin Hartman, of the same address.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. Lakewood scored four runs in the sixth inning, keyed by back-to-back doubles by John Castellano and Clay Harris, to notch a 5-4 victory Friday over the Hagerstown Suns. The BlueClaws came back from a 4-1 deficit by gettiing to reliever Ryan Meyers (0-3). The Suns scored two runs in the fourth and sixth innings to grab the 4-1 lead. The Suns scored on a pair of infield plays in the fourth to take a 2-1 lead. Leivi Ventura singled home one run in the sixth and Johnathan Sanchez scored when Jose Castro reached on an error for the three-run lead.

Four half dollar-size pieces of crack and a dozen baggies of suspected marijuana were found in a condom hidden in the underwear of a teenage girl stopped for speeding Friday morning, Hagerstown City Police said. Stacey Anita Freeman, 19, of 202 Jonathan St., was charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of both illegal drugs, according to Hagerstown City Police. Capt. Robert Hart, acting police chief, said a woman was driving a rental car in the 200 block of Jonathan Street at 6:37 a.m. when she was stopped for speeding.

A preliminary hearing for a Summit Point, W.Va., man on charges of possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine is scheduled for April 5 at 11 a.m. before Jefferson County Magistrate M.P. Rissler, according to court records. Julio Cesar Torres, 34, of 472 Shirley Road, was arrested March 18 during an investigation of the theft of a flat-screen television from a residence and a power tool from Lowe's, court records said. Police said they found 218 pieces of crack cocaine with an estimated street value of $11,000 in Torres' bed, according to court records.

Following in the footsteps of his grandfather whose life as a CIA agent was portrayed in the Academy Award winning film “Argo,” 17-year-old Phil McField proved how to crack online passwords in fewer than five minutes Friday at Washington County Technical High School's inaugural Cyber Security Awareness Day. “In the art of infiltration, in stealing data (and) bringing it back to a secure location, my grandfather did that for about 30 or 40 years, and I'm kind of following in his footsteps involving technology and computers and cyber security,” said McField, a WCTHS senior who served as an extra in the film based on Antonio “Tony” Mendez's experience during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979.

Antrim Township is cracking down on delinquent sewer customers. Over the last four years, sewer customers not paying their bills on time has become a growing problem in the township, township administrator Brad Graham said. At least 45 of the township's 3,500 customers were 120 days behind on their sewer bill and each owed $1,000 or more, Graham said. The average residential quarterly sewer bill is $115.50. Graham said the township board of supervisors discussed tightening the township's current collection policy at its Jan. 28 worksession and at several recent meetings.

A Hagerstown man with three previous felony drug convictions was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a fourth conviction last week in Washington County Circuit Court. Judge Dana Moylan Wright told Shamar Tahi Anderson on Thursday that he will not be eligible for parole until he has served the first 10 years of his sentence for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Anderson, 33, of 241 Prospect St., was scheduled for a jury trial Thursday, but entered into a plea agreement after a bench conference.

A Washington Township, Pa., lake popular for fishing might have gone down the drain. “The lake is almost dry. ... You can see the whole bottom now,” Jeff Geesaman, chairman of the Washington Township Supervisors, said of Red Run Lake. Two concrete pipes travel from the lake, beyond Skiway Avenue and into a box at Red Run Creek. At Wednesday night's township supervisors meeting, Township Manager Mike Christopher speculated a slide on one side of that box might have rusted at the bottom, allowing water to run through.

Martinsburg police arrested a man early Friday morning after a foot chase and seized about 29 grams of crack cocaine from him, according to the Martinsburg Police Department. Derrick S. Spencer, aka Fat Head, was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, Martinsburg police Detective J.D. Luciano said in a news release. Spencer, 34, was detained in the area of Carroll  and Vicky Bullett streets just after midnight, the release said. The arrest was the culmination of drug investigations  Thursday night by the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and Martinsburg police, the release said.

A Hagerstown man was charged with possession of crack cocaine after he was pulled over during a traffic stop Wednesday night in Frederick, Md., the Frederick Police Department said. Eddie Paul Jouvert, 43, of 50 Summit Ave., also was charged with possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, according to a police news release. Officers said a K-9 unit detected the drugs after Jouvert was pulled over at 9:37 p.m. in the area of Key Parkway and Bel Air Lane.

The Hagerstown Suns proved that clutch hitting is sometimes overrated. The Suns used an RBI single, two run-scoring groundouts and a bases-loaded walk to get all the offense they needed on Friday to post a 4-2 victory over Lakewood for their third-straight win. Adrian Nieto had one single, but drove in two runs - one with a groundout in the fourth and the other with a walk in the eighth - to pace Hagerstown (27-19). Hagerstown starter Kylin Turnbull (2-3) allowed a run on five hits with six strikeouts to get the victory.

As the fog lifted Friday morning, Bill Jordan highlighted the trouble-spots along his bus route for Jefferson County Schools. His stops along Jefferson Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard to pick up school children are a few of the more prominent places where motorists in Charles Town, W.Va., have ignored his bus' flashing red lights and extended stop arms. “It's kind of a regular thing,” Jordan as he made his first stop of the morning to pick up a boy along Cattail Run Road.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners Tuesday approved two contracts totaling about $3 million to repair and maintain about 50 miles of the county's 840 miles of roadway, although rising oil prices could affect the list of roads to be treated. The commissioners awarded a $1,730,220 contract to Craig Paving Inc. of Hagerstown to repair and maintain 26 roads totaling 10.72 miles, with hot-mix asphalt applications. Robert Slocum, deputy director of county public works, told the commissioners about six miles of roads will be repaved.