OFFICE OF THE STATE’S ATTORNEY
FOR
208 THE CLARENCE M. MITCHELL,
JR. COURTHOUSE
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21202
State’s Attorney
For Information Contact: Margaret T. Burns
Office (443) 984-1121 or Cell Phone (443) 474-7479
Or
Joseph
Sviatko, Public Information Officer
Office
(443) 984-1122 or Cell (410) 790-3248
Baltimore,
MD – June 10, 2008 – Judge John Themelis sentenced Steven Norwood, 32, of the 1600
block of Moreland Avenue, to 11 years in prison following a plea agreement. Judge Themelis sentenced Norwood to 10 years
for possession with intent to distribute and 1 year for hit & run bodily
injury and ordered that the sentences run concurrent.
Norwood
plead to the following facts of the case.
On October 2, 2007 at approximately 10:45 p.m., Detectives observed a
black 2-door Acura matching the description of a vehicle used in a homicide in
the 1700 block of Pulaski Street. Later
they observed the same vehicle stopped in the middle of the street at the
intersection of Pulaski and Presbury Streets.
Detectives executed a traffic stop and the defendant presented his
driver’s license to Detectives while attempting to stuff an object into the
center console of the vehicle.
Detectives asked the defendant to exit his vehicle. The defendant placed the vehicle into
reverse striking the detective’s vehicle and one of the detectives present at
the scene. The detective suffered no
injuries.
The
defendant then fled in his vehicle and the detectives followed reaching speeds
of 70 mph in a residential area with a 25 m.p.h. speed limit. The defendant then ran a stop sign at
Presbury and Bentalou Streets and collided with a vehicle driven by Melvin
Horton and occupied by the front passenger Richard Jones. Both victims were transported to Shock
Trauma. Horton suffered a fractured
pelvis, lacerated liver, punctured lung, fractured ribs, and traumatic head
injury. Jones suffered a laceration to
the left hip and bruises. Horton
stopped breathing briefly but was immediately revived by Jones the passenger --
Horton’s friend of more than 10 years.
Both vehicles were totaled.
The
defendant fled on foot immediately after the accident and was caught and
arrested moments later. Detectives
recovered 123.7 grams of cocaine from the defendant. Upon returning to the defendant’s vehicle, detectives recovered
124.8 grams of cocaine from the front floor of the defendant’s vehicle and
$13,795 cash from the trunk. A search
of the defendant’s house located 2 blocks from where the defendant was arrested
revealed packaging material including a capper, quinine and mannitol. Also recovered from the defendant’s house
was $12,255 cash. The street value of
the cocaine was approximately $12,000.
Assistant State's Attorney Jerry E. Jones, of the Narcotics
Division, prosecuted this case.