Terrance Marquis Savoy
Leonardtown and La Plata, MD — A local man’s accumulated criminal troubles came to a head in both St. Mary’s and Charles county circuit courts this week. The result when the dust settled for Terrance Savoy, 23, is five years of jail time in the state penal system. Savoy has various addresses of Indian Head, Lexington Park and Ridge listed in court records.
Savoy was sentenced Nov. 30 in St. Mary’s County Circuit Court by Judge Michael Stamm to a total of four years in jail on three separate indictments alleging second-degree assault, fourth-degree burglary of a dwelling and attempting to elude a police officer.
When those indictments from St. Mary’s County were handed down in 2014 and 2015 Savoy was on probation for a 2010 conviction in Charles County for first-degree burglary. In that case Savoy was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but 18 months suspended.
So when Savoy appeared for the probation violation Dec. 1 in Charles County Circuit Court before Judge Helen Harrington, he faced a total of eight-and-a-half years of back up time. Judge Harrington sentenced him to five years and made the sentence concurrent with the sentence he had received the day before in St. Mary’s.
One of the indictments against Savoy in St. Mary’s involved a strong-arm robbery at the A&E Motel in Lexington Park. Robert Harrod and Adam Kelson Jr. were also arrested last year in connection with that incident.
Kelson, 30 of Lexington Park was sentenced Oct. 16 to five years in the Maryland Department of Corrections by Judge Karen Abrams. The judge suspended three years of the total eight-year sentence.
Harrod, 28, also of Lexington Park was sentenced to five years in jail by Judge Stamm, but all but one year, two months and eight days of that sentence was suspended. But the judge made the sentence concurrent with a three-year jail sentence Harrod is already serving for drug distribution conviction in Calvert County.
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