Crime & Safety

Pikesville Man Sentenced for Smuggling Drugs to Dad

Herald Mail: Family friend tells judge "He was seeking his father's love."

Edward Dennis Dorsey, 20, of Pikesville, was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling drugs to his father, a convict, the Herald Mail reports.

According to court records, Dorsey, Edward Dennis Dorsey IV, resides in the 8100 block of Scotts Level Road.

On June 27, Dorsey was being searched at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, before he visited his father there, when "a plastic package fell from his boxer shorts," the article states.

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Inside it were morphine, Suboxone and marijuana, it states.

According to the article, "He was seeking his father's love," a friend of Dorsey's family told Circuit Court Judge Donald E. Beachley during the sentencing Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court.

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