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BALTIMORE, MD (March 19, 2025) – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced today
that Cheryl Leigh Gray, 50, of Middletown, Maryland, was sentenced by the Honorable Julia A.
Minner in the Circuit Court for Frederick County to one count of felony theft $25,000- $100,000
and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution. The investigation was led by the Attorney General’s
Fraud and Corruption Unit and the Maryland Insurance Administration.
On April 5, 2024, Attorney General Brown announced that Gray was convicted in an earlier,
separate Frederick County felony theft scheme case related to her work as an insurance producer.
When sentenced, Gray had already repaid $305,995.55 in restitution. Gray gathered some of the
money she used to pay part of the restitution by engaging in a new theft scheme.
In the new scheme, for which charges were announced in February 2025, Gray stole $65,000
from a friend by falsely claiming that she needed the money for medical treatment when she
really needed the money to pay her restitution. On February 10, 2025, Gray pleaded guilty to
felony theft $25,000-$100,000 for stealing the $65,000 from her friend.
On March 17, 2025, Judge Minner sentenced Gray to five years of incarceration, suspending all
but 60 days. Gray will also be on five years of supervised probation. She is required to pay
$65,000 in restitution to the friend.
In making today’s announcement, Attorney General Brown thanked his Criminal Division,
specifically Division Chief Katie Dorian, Fraud and Corruption Unit Chief Alex Huggins, and
Senior Assistant Attorney General Timothy Lake, who prosecuted these cases. Attorney General
Brown also thanked Maryland Insurance Administration Forensic Auditor Suzzanne Jones and
Investigator William Wagner. Finally, Attorney General Brown thanked State’s Attorney for
Frederick County J. Charles Smith III for his assistance with this prosecution.
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