La Plata, MD – Another in the growing number of heroin-related cases appeared in Charles County Circuit Court Tuesday, Jan. 12 when Darryn Paul Alley, 22 of Waldorf, was brought before Judge Helen I. Harrington on a violation of probation charge.
Alley’s agent from the Department of Parole and Probation noted that he failed to attend meetings and tested positive on five separate occasions from February to June of last year.
“Last month he tested negative for opiates,” Charles County Assistant State’s Attorney Jeremy Widder told Harrington. “He has a bed up north. Intake said it would be ready at 2 p.m. I would suggest postponing his sentencing to get him in the Mountain Manor program [in Baltimore].”
“Everyone recognizes he has a heroin problem,” Charles County Assistant Public Defender Elizabeth Connell said.
“I’ll postpone sentencing, but he has to go to the Mountain Manor inpatient facility,” Harrington stressed.
“I recognize I have a problem,” Alley told Harrington. “I’m willing to do whatever it is to get off it. I can’t do it by myself,” he admitted.
“It is a terrible addiction,” the judge responded. “I don’t have any magic trick. You simply have to do the hard work. I’m sorry, there are no short cuts.”
Harrington set sentencing for March 8 and said what happens from there depends on how he does in treatment.
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