Crime & Safety

Woodbridge, Maryland Metro Employees to Plead Guilty in Coin Theft

Police officer, Metro employee charged by criminal complaint.

officer from Woodbridge accused and charged in January of systematically stealing thousands of dollars in coins from Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland are scheduled to take guilty pleas in federal court, said WTOP. 

John Vincent Haile, 54, of Woodbridge and Horace Dexter McDade, 58, of Bowie, MD were "charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to commit theft from programs receiving Federal funds," said the United States Attorney's Office. 

The two men were arrested late last night and face a maximum sentence of five years in prison, if convicted.  

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