A Harford County Sheriff’s Office corrections officer has been charged with five misdemeanor offenses including theft under $1,000 and making a false statement to an officer, the agency said Thursday.
The Sheriff’s Office did not disclose specifics behind the charges against Senior Deputy Carlos Jusino, a Corrections Deputy at the Harford County Detention Center and 16-year veteran of the agency, other than saying that they did not involve inmates. Jusino faces three counts of theft under $1,000, one count of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer, and one count of theft scheme under $1,000.
Following what the agency described as “parallel investigations” by the Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Division and its Office of Professional Standards, Jusino was served with a criminal summons on Nov. 9. According to the Sheriff’s Office, pursuant to state law, Jusino has been suspended with pay since Sept. 15 amid an internal investigation into his actions; that investigation is ongoing.
“Credibility is one of the most important elements that define the effectiveness of a law enforcement agency,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said in a statement. “The Harford County Sheriff’s Office understands the community we serve deserves transparency and accountability and the actions taken in this case demonstrate our commitment to earn and maintain our communities trust.”
“While I cannot comment any further, as it could jeopardize the integrity of the administrative investigation, I believe strongly that the community deserves to know when a member of this agency has been criminally charged,” Gahler added.
Jusino and another Sheriff’s Office deputy were at the center of a debate within the agency about freedom of speech more than four years ago, when a rap video made by the pair surfaced online.
The video, made by Jusino and fellow corrections officer Larry McFarland under the name 80 Proof, depicts the two picking up cars from Adams Chevrolet in Havre de Grace, and driving them to the long-defunct DC V 2.0 club at what is now the Comfort Inn & Suites in Aberdeen. Their roles as Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies were not mentioned.
Then-Sheriff Jesse Bane told The Dagger he was “not happy” with the deputies’ appearance in the video, but that their involvement was protected by their First Amendment rights and did not create a cause for concern about their duties with the agency.
“I can tell you that those two corrections officers do a good job,” Bane said at the time. “They went through the same rigorous screening that every member of this department goes through when we hire them.”
Suspended with pay? What the hell is going on around here? You can steal and still get paid for it,that sends a message…
A lot of times with internal employment investigations, if a person is suspended during the actual investigation, they are suspended “with pay” until the investigation is complete. (Think “innocent until proven guilty.”) And then, if the person is found to be guilty, their pay is discontinued and they are fired. Usually, if something is controversial, that is when they are suspended with pay because it is better to have them not working while the investigation is on-going.
Typically Felony charges will make it suspended without pay, misdemeanor charges are leave with pay. The LEO bill of rights dictates certain things and I think this is one of them. This guy Carlos is a joke. Scary thing is he was one of the highest Majors boyfriend in Jesse Banes Administration. She was racist and targeted several people just because she could.
Presberry got my brother fired.
But the Karma here was she was essentially fired as well. She use useless since the day she started as a dispatcher all through here little affairs with white men and members of authority. What goes around comes around.
Yep he voted for the sexual predator Trump.
He should have voted for Hilliary! You dems wouldn’t want anyone ever charged with a crime.
Isn’t this Retired Major Presberrys boyfriend?
Yes. This is the same person.
Does anyone know if HCSO investigated an apparent note left on a vehicle outside the Planet Fitness in Abingdon from an “emboldened” Trump supporter? It is circulating on Facebook . Personally, I am confident it is staged/fake, which is why I am curious if it was investigated. If it hasn’t, it should be. I think a lot of the “incidents” being reported as Trump-related violence and threats are actually fake.
The note says, with mis-drawn swastikas:
“Nigg*ers not welcome here! Go back to Africa b*tch! You better watch your back! Trump 2016 Make America WHITE AGAIN”
That had nothing to do with this article, but the answer is yes, it’s being investigated. Any incident that might be a hate crime is thoroughly investigated if it gets reported as required by law and policy.
Beyond that I don’t know anything and even if I did I wouldn’t say anything else about it in public forum, and especially not here.
How do you know it was from an “emboldened” Trump supporter???? Perhaps it was penned by a dumbed down, disappointed HRC supporter????? I so dislike generalizations…
…and so if it’s on the internet or FB it must be the truth???? Sheesh, give me a break.
Its about time Jusino gets whats coming to him. He has had people keeping him out of trouble for years.
Got caught years ago having sex in a state park and lied about who he was and of course his girl Presbury took care of him.
He should have been gone long ago
She has protected him for a long time. This is the same major who could have cared less about CO’s. She felt that she was better then everyone else and could do what she wanted. She was useless at training and useless in every position that she held. Isn’t Karma a B—- for both of them. He thinks that he is a LE deputy and always thought he was one. I’m sure that if it was anyone else, they would have gotten fired. I sure hope that he gets what’s coming to him and glad she is gone. She thought she was the cats meow.
I been trying to tell you. They are all the same. From the half ass inept judges to the killer, theif pigs. Harford Co government, you are a worthless piece of putrid shit. The only thing your good for are destroying citizens lives, and stealing everything they worked for…Please, pretty please die a slow miserable death and take your families with you, like you did mine….you nazi scum