A former Maryland Division of Corrections lieutenant has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for obstruction of justice. Edwin Stigile III, a former lieutenant at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar.
Stigile pleaded guilty to a charge of destruction of records in 2014. In connection with his guilty plea, court documents revealed that Stigile intentionally erased surveillance video footage related to the RCI officers’ assaults of an inmate, Kenneth Davis, in March 2008.
According to court documents, RCI officers from three different shifts assaulted Davis in retaliation for a prior incident in which Davis struck an officer. Stigile also instructed an officer to hide the magnetic device after the surveillance footage was destroyed.
In September 2012, Stigile made false and misleading statements to federal authorities and a federal grand jury in an attempt to obstruct the federal investigation related to the assaults.
“The defendant participated in the cover-up of the assaults suffered by Mr. Davis, and then he lied to cover up this crime,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department will continue to vigorously prosecute those officers who, like this defendant, try to cover up the misconduct of other officers.”
To date, 16 current or former officers at RCI were convicted in connection with the series of assaults that Davis suffered on March 8 through 9, 2008. One former officer still awaits sentencing.
The case was investigated by the Frederick Resident Agency of the FBI, and prosecuted by Special Litigation Counsel Forrest Christian and Trial Attorney Sanjay Patel of the Civil Rights Division, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Cunningham for the District of Maryland.
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Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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