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A former state corrections officer and an ex-lieutenant colonel for the Army Reserves was re-arrested on Friday on new charges.
Now, Dennis Dockery is being charged with “first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community and two counts of second degree forgery after he forged orders stating that he was still on active duty.
His original time in prison was 17 months in Fort Leavenworth prison, the military prison, that was regarding a sexual assault case against a female that he met online and traveled to see and then for a couple of inappropriate relationships with two subordinates while he was on active duty on tour in Iraq.
The warrant from his sexual assault case says that the lady claimed that Dockery’s travel to meet her and that their relationship was “Master Slave,” but his warrant charges say that he was charged with second-degree strangulation, third-degree assault and disorderly conduct charges too.
He apparently engaged in rough sex, slapping her around and pulling her hair while using degrading language towards her.
Since Dockery was legitimately on active duty, he was arrested by the Army and the state dropped the charges against giving the military control over his case. When the state did this, that man that Dockery’s job at The Dept. of Corrections was not made aware of the arrest or his charges.
Since he knew that the corrections had no idea, he decided to forge documentation while serving his time in Leavenworth that would state that he was still active and in Iraq on tour.
When doing this, it fooled the state into believing that Dockery was entitled to receive his salary of $5,182. He made sure to date the documentation for the stint of his time in prison and the end date of his fake Iraqi tour was really his release date from Leavenworth prison.
Since he forged his documents and the Dept. of Corrections had no idea he had been incarcerated for the 17 months, he was able to return back to work as a corrections officer.
At some point late last year, the dept. of corrections learned that he was really in Leavenworth and not in Iraq.
On May 25, the case was turned over to the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office and the DOC fired him just says before his scheduled retire date.
So, the charges new charges are because Dockery forged documents claiming that he was deployed so that his job would still pay him a salary.
The Judge in Superior Court in Harford set Dockery’s bail at $50,000 and is due back in court on Aug. 1.
Via:military
