{"id":12243,"date":"2016-12-13T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:04:08","slug":"natural-resources-police-charge-annapolis-man-for-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/12\/13\/natural-resources-police-charge-annapolis-man-for-forgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources Police Charge Annapolis Man for Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping a scheme to defraud the state and nabbing a man\u00a0who shot at a deer decoy highlighted recent enforcement activities by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/nrp\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Natural Resources Police<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Frederick-Vallette-Hanlon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12244\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Frederick-Vallette-Hanlon.jpg\" alt=\"Frederick Vallette Hanlon\" width=\"250\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>An Annapolis man has been charged with 11 counts of forgery, perjury and tax evasion in connection with the sale of a boat to a local sailing school.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Vallette Hanlon, 53, is accused of falsifying state documents when he sold a boat to the Annapolis Sailing Center in order to pocket $600 in state excise tax.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in Anne Arundel County District Court Jan. 9 for a preliminary hearing, according to a criminal summons signed Wednesday by a court commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Charging documents say the sailing center found a classified listing July for a 20-foot inflatable boat owned by Hanlon. He agreed to sell the boat, outboard engine and trailer for $17,000.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer wrote a $1,000 check for the down payment. Later that month, a center official wrote a check for the balance, which included $850 for the excise tax and $26 for the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> title fee and annual boat registration, charging documents say.<\/p>\n<p>Despite persistent requests from the center, it took Hanlon nearly four months to send the new title and registration sticker for the boat, which are required to operate a vessel on state waters. When the documents arrived in early November, a sailing center official noticed numerous errors and that his signature was forged.<\/p>\n<p>The most glaring error, however, was that the boat\u2019s sale price was listed as $5,000 instead of the actual amount paid, which reduced the state excise tax from $876 to $276.<\/p>\n<p>The center contacted state officials, who alerted investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Perjury and forgery each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Evading the state excise tax is punishable by a $10,000 fine and up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An Allegany County man was charged Saturday after he shot at a deer decoy set up by officers.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Leslie Pannone Jr., 47, of Cumberland, received citations for shooting across a road and failing to wear fluorescent orange in <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/publiclands\/western_greenridgeforest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Green Ridge State Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At about 7:20 a.m., a white truck drove slowly by where the officers were positioned and stopped. When the officers heard a shot, they approached Pannone, who was standing along the road near the decoy.<\/p>\n<p>Pannone is scheduled to appear in Allegany County District Court Feb. 21. If found guilty of both violations, he could be fines as much as $450.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping a scheme to defraud the state and nabbing a man\u00a0who shot at a deer decoy highlighted recent enforcement activities by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}