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A Prince George's County Circuit Court judge sentenced a former Maryland State Trooper assigned to the Forestville barrack to nine months in jail for felony theft and misconduct.
A jury found Andrew Mohan, 36, guilty on Dec. 10 of working two private security jobs while on the clock as a trooper — resulting in the theft of $3,200 in wages he collected during that time from the state — and abusing his power by accessing restricted criminal and motor vehicle records for personal use, according to a release from the Maryland Attorney's General's office, which prosecuted the case.
He was sentenced Friday by Judge Albert W. Northrop. On the felony theft charge, Mohan was sentenced to three years in jail, with all but three months suspended; on the misconduct charge, he was sentenced to two years in jail with all but six months suspended, according to the release.
The judge also ordered that Mohan pay $3,330 to the Maryland State Police and also serve three years of supervised probation.
Mohan filed a motion Dec. 22 for a new trial. A hearing on that motion is scheduled for Feb. 19.
Mohan's Upper Marlboro-based attorney, Don Edward Ansell, declined to comment on the sentence.
Prosecutors alleged that while performing his duties as a trooper between March 2006 and June 2007, Mohan took jobs as a private security guard at the Rivertowne Commons shopping center in Oxon Hill and Heather Hill apartment complex in Temple Hills, said Raquel Guillory, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Attorney General's office.
Separate from those two jobs, he also accessed restricted information from criminal and motor vehicle records, she said, although it is unclear why he wanted that information outside of his duties as a trooper.
Court records indicate Mohan was indicted on the charges of theft and misconduct in December 2008, which Ansell said was around the same time he was suspended without pay from his job as a trooper.
His last known address was in Hyattsville, Guillory said.
Assistant Attorney General Kate O'Donnell prosecuted the case.
Greg Shipley, a spokesman for Maryland State Police, declined to comment on the case.
E-mail Zoe Tillman at ztillman@gazette.net.