Former Baltimore Homicide Prosecutor Faces 88 Charges For Using Privileges To Stalk, Harass & Extort

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  A erstwhile Baltimore City homicide authoritative was indicted connected 88 charges including stalking, extortion and harassment, the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor announced Tuesday.

According to charging documents, Adam Lane Chaudry allegedly abused tribunal processes similar expansive assemblage subpoenas and different authoritative investigative tools for accusation to stalk his exes portion serving arsenic an Assistant State’s Attorney for the city. He allegedly obtained telephone records from his exes and their associates for years.

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Chaudry allegedly took vantage of his bureau to extort $10,000 from idiosyncratic connected behalf of a friend, according to the indictment.

Further charges Chaudry faces include: harassment, obtaining telephone records without authorization, felony theft scheme, and misconduct successful office.

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“Our justness system, peculiarly the important relation and powerfulness of the expansive jury, relies connected the integrity of instrumentality enforcement officials — particularly prosecutors,” Howard said. “Our bureau volition enactment to guarantee nationalist officials who maltreatment positions of spot and authorization are investigated and, wherever appropriate, prosecuted.”

Chaudry was hired by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office successful 2009 and joined the homicide part successful 2015. In that position, helium would routinely petition and get expansive assemblage and proceedings subpoenas.

According to the Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, Chaudry was terminated successful June aft an interior investigation. His cases person been reassigned.

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“Mr. Chaudry was terminated from his relation arsenic Assistant State’s Attorney soon aft we concluded an interior probe of the State Prosecutor’s allegations,” an SAO spokesperson said. “His termination was effectual connected June 18, 2021. Immediately pursuing our interior investigation, his cases were reassigned and reevaluated connected the merits of each case, wherever to date, we’ve recovered nary crushed to question the legitimacy of his cases. We are incapable to remark further astir this unfastened and pending matter.”

CBS Baltimore Staff

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