Maryland man gets six years for receiving stolen property

By Linda Cicoira

A Maryland man was sentenced to six years of active time in prison on Monday in Northampton Circuit Court for charges involving stolen property that occurred in 2020.

A jury found 40-year-old Gerald Jermaine Pearson, with addresses in Baltimore and Westover, guilty of seven felonies earlier this year.

He was sentenced to 10 years with eight years suspended for each of the two counts of receiving or buying stolen property worth more than $1,000. Pearson was also sentenced to five years, with three years suspended, for illegally obtaining money.

Five-year suspended terms were handed down for the defendant for altering or forging a title, receiving stolen property, forging a public record, and illegally obtaining money.

All the terms were set to run consecutively. The jury acquitted Pearson of illegally obtaining a vehicle. A charge of possessing a stolen vehicle from that incident was also not prosecuted.

In another case, 19-year-old Johnathan Cole Stiles, of Fox Court in Eastville, pleaded guilty to petty larceny and received a 12-month suspended term for the offense. He initially was indicted on a count of grand theft of property belonging to Scott Jones on May 14, 2025. Misdemeanor counts of having improperly marked buoys and obstructed cull rings on more than 10 of 25 crab pots were not prosecuted.