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By
Andrew Michaels
- January 23, 2024
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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge agreed to defer the sentence of non-fatal shooting defendant Michael Crispino on Jan. 22 to give counsel time to finalize the treatment programs to be completed by the defendant per his plea agreement.
The 44-year-old Kingsville resident pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault and a single count of firearm use in a felony or violent crime before Judge Barry G. Williams Monday afternoon in connection to an incident on Aug. 29, 2021. The prosecutor’s plea offer included 15 years, suspending all but five years on home detention, for the assault charges and a concurrent five years for the weapons charge.
Under the terms of the plea, Crispino is also required to complete mental health treatment as well as alcohol and drug treatment screening. He must have no contact with the victims and will also serve five years of supervised probation following his release.
The prosecutor and Crispino’s defense attorney, Warren Brown, requested postponing the defendant’s sentencing to Feb. 16 to secure his place in the aforementioned the treatment programs, to which Judge Williams agreed.
According to charging documents, a private process server with Nationwide Professional Services was on his third attempt to serve Crispino with court documents at the defendant’s residence on the day of the incident on the 1500 block of Parksley Avenue. Crispino was described as becoming “irate” and told the victim to leave or else he would release his dogs on the victim.
The victim, whose wife was waiting nearby in their black 2021 Honda Civic, returned to his car when he heard a gunshot and saw Crispino pointing a handgun at his car. Neither victim was injured in the shooting.
After the victim called 911, a SWAT team, a Drug Diversion Unit, a District Action Team and a negotiation team responded to the residence where negotiators spoke with Crispino for about three hours before he turned himself in.