State v. Jermaine Robert Maddox, C-08-CR-18-000069
LA PLATA, MD—Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West sentenced Jermaine Robert Maddox, 30 of Nanjemoy, to 12 years in prison and an additional 10 years suspended time for two counts of Second Degree Assault and 2 counts of Obstruction of Justice.
On July 31, 2017, officers responded to the 3900 block of Boozer Place in Indian Head and spoke with the female victim present at the residence.
Their investigation revealed that earlier on the same day while the victim was at work, Maddox attempted to contact the victim via cell phone. Maddox made over 30 calls or texts within an hour trying to contact the victim. She did not answer or respond to Maddox. At least one of the texts was threatening the victim.
After work the victim returned to her residence on Boozer Place, where she found Maddox blocking the entrance to her driveway. Maddox approached the victim’s vehicle with a hammer and threatened to harm the victim if she did not open the vehicle’s door. When the victim refused, Maddox lit a cigarette and held it near the vehicle’s gas cap. At that time, the victim opened the door. Maddox forced entry into the vehicle and demanded that the victim unlock her phone, but the victim refused. Maddox eventually told the victim to enter her house.
The victim later fell asleep in her bedroom and woke up to find Maddox in her room holding her cell phone. Maddox again demanded the victim unlock the phone, but she again refused. Maddox then pushed the phone in the victim’s face and shoved the victim down on her bed, demanding that she open the phone. When the victim responded that she could not, Maddox took a pillow and put it over the victim’s face, prompting her to call out for help to her 8-year-old daughter, who was also in the house during the incident. Maddox then used his whole body weight to cup the pillow around the victim’s head in an attempt to suffocate her. The victim went limp and played dead. Eventually, Maddox released the pillow and got off of the victim. The victim then escaped to an upper level in the house where her and her daughter hid for safety and called the police.
Maddox was located and apprehended by officers a few days later. While incarcerated, Maddox made calls in attempt to get family members and friends to threaten to kill the victim and her mother if the charges against him were not dropped and the victim did not change her story to the police.
On February 5, 2018, Maddox entered a guilty plea in Circuit Court in front of the Honorable Judge H. James West to the above listed charges.