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Charges of endangerment against woman dropped
Investigation stemmed from damaged Freon lines
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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St. Mary's prosecutors have dropped felony endangerment charges filed last winter against a Charles County woman and five relatives in an investigation of damaged Freon lines at a house she co-owns with a former boyfriend.
In advance of a preliminary hearing scheduled for last week in the case, a prosecutor filed court papers stating a "review by this office" prompted the motion to dismiss the charges filed against Melody Bridget Thompson, 49, of Pomfret; her sons Toby Clayton Thompson, 31, of Glen Burnie; Travis Roy Thompson, 27, of Lexington Park; 19-year-old Terrcell Ernest Thompson of Pomfret; and family members Nakisha Marline Thompson, 20, of Glen Burnie and Allie Michael Richardson, 46, of Pomfret.
Roland Louis Fenwick, 45, told police last February that he and Melody Thompson ended their relationship earlier that month, court papers state, and that she left their "mutually owned" house on Courtneyville Road in Park Hall.
She returned there a couple days later with the five other family members to get her belongings, court papers state, and Fenwick left. He told police that when he returned, the six people were gone, two jackets and a bench were missing and that heating and air-conditioning cables and Freon pipes leading from an external unit into the residence had been damaged. He said the missing clothes later were returned.
A remaining misdemeanor theft charge against Melody Thompson is scheduled for trial in July, and the other five suspects also face trial on the misdemeanor theft charge and an additional misdemeanor offense of property destruction.
In a separate matter, prosecutors have dropped all assault and weapons charges filed against Reginald Wayne Banks, 43, of Lexington Park from an April 3 confrontation between him and people yelling outside his residence.
Police alleged in charging papers that Banks displayed a pistol as a neighbor in the crowd approached him in an aggressive manner. A judge released Banks on a $500 bond deposit after noting that the evidence indicated that Banks might be the actual victim in the matter.
