BALTIMORE MAN RECEIVES 60 YEAR SENTENCE IN THE DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS FOR FELONY WITNESS INTIMDATION (4 COUNTS), AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, COMMITTED WHILE ON PROBATION FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
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JUNE 27, 2025
BALTIMORE MAN RECEIVES 60 YEAR SENTENCE IN THE DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS FOR FELONY WITNESS INTIMDATION (4 COUNTS), AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, COMMITTED WHILE ON PROBATION FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
Frederick, MD – Yesterday, in Frederick County Circuit Court, The Honorable Judge Julia Martz-Fisher sentenced Milton Stewart, 58, of Baltimore to a total of 60 years in the Division of Corrections for four counts of felony witness intimidation and one count of obstruction of justice. A jury found the Defendant guilty of those offenses on March 20, 2025. The Defendant received a total sentence across the five counts of 85 years, with 25 years suspended.
On March 28, 2024, Sergeant Welsh of the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 70. The Defendant, Milton Stewart, nicknamed “Silk” was one of four occupants inside the stopped car. After a positive K9 alert, deputies searched the car and recovered a significant amount of controlled dangerous substances. The Defendant was charged with felony drug offenses as a result of the investigation.
During the traffic stop, one of the other passengers provided information to Sergeant Welsh about the Defendant relevant to the drug investigation. The information provided by that witness was included in the statement of probable cause submitted in the District Court with the drug charges against the Defendant.
The Defendant, while in custody at the Frederick County Detention Center pending trial for the felony drug offenses, then committed several acts of witness intimidation against that witness over the course of several months. In Maryland, if someone commits or attempts to commit witness intimidation in connection with felony drug offenses or a crime of violence, the acts of intimidation (or corrupt means to influence a witness) then constitute felonies.
Evidence admitted at trial showed that the Defendant, from the detention center, sent threatening and corrupting text messages to the witness’s daughter, addressed to the witness and intended to be seen by the witness.
Evidence reviewed by the jury also included a birthday card the Defendant sent to the witness from the detention center. That card had a handwritten message with phrases including “I LOVE YOU TO DEATH” (with an angry face drawn next to it), “SHH” (also with an angry face), and “Bodymore Murdaland.” On the back of the envelope for the card, the Defendant wrote “I NEVER FORGET” and “ANYTHING.”
“While witness intimidation rarely occurs with disinterested or unrelated witnesses,” said State’s Attorney Charlie Smith, “we do see it in cases of domestic violence, or with cooperators as it was in this instance. In any event, prosecutors and judges take a very dim view of those who intimidate a witness, which is why this deserving sentence was so long.”
The Defendant was on probation for First-Degree Murder at the time of these offenses. He was found guilty of First-Degree Murder in Baltimore City in 2006 and was then released in November 2021.
Assistant State’s Attorney Paul Tumulty of the Felony Narcotics Division represented the State of Maryland.
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