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This page is dependent on a working relationship with the Carroll County (MD) Sheriffs Department for Internet Safety and the dangers of cell phone use to our youth.   

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Corporal Worthington I. Washington; Carroll County Sheriffs Department 

Training & Certifications:

I have attended and successfully completed a seventeen (17) week Entrance Level Training Course at the Western Maryland Police Training Academy, with the Hagerstown City Polic Department. During my career I have worked in Patrol and the Criminal Investigation Division but have spent one year with the Sheriff’s Office Drug Strike Force and seven years with the Carroll County Drug Task Force as an Under Cover Drug Investigator. I was sworn in as a U.S. Customs Officer to do a case that included "Wire Taps" and surveillance while working out of the U.S. Custom House in Baltimore. I am currently assigned to teach the Drug Education Programs and Internet Safety in the high schools, middle schools and elementary schools as well as the D.A.R.E. program in the middle schools in Carroll County. I have successfully completed training in the following areas:

Drugs and Racketeering that was presented by the Maryland Community Crime Institute, a seminar on Concealed Compartments that was provided by Special Agent Angel Caldrone of the New York City Police Department Drug Enforcement Division, the Maryland State Police Drug Diversion School which dealt with the diversion of pharmaceuticals from legitimate sources to the illegal market, a five day Multi-jurisdictional Counter Drug Task Force Training course provided by the Southeastern Public Safety Institute from St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg Florida.

 This course included instruction from the Maryland State Police, St. Petersburg Florida Police Department, St. Petersburg Junior College and the Pinellas County Florida Sheriff’s Office. This course dealt with drug identification, drugs on the street, basic undercover aspects, undercover techniques and weapons, advanced undercover operations,  weapons, criminal street gangs and their involvement in the drug culture, a completed a five day Criminal Investigators Course provided by the Maryland State Police and also a three day Criminal Investigators Course provided by the Frederick City P.D. which included instruction in reference to the drug culture and the use of technical surveillance equipment, a three day conference called “ Heroin, No Simple Solution “provided by the National Drug Intelligence Center which dealt with the current trends of heroin, prices, sources, purity, distribution and availability, a 40 hour “Technical Surveillance Officer I “course provided by the Maryland State Police, a 6 day Top Gun Undercover Drug Investigation School conducted by the Northeast Counter Drug Training Center at Fort Indian Town Gap Pennsylvania, a three day course in Air Smuggling Investigative Techniques provided by St. Petersburg JR. College Multi Jurisdictional Counter- Drug Task Force Training

I have written numerous Search and Seizure Warrants and have been on the entry teams as these warrants were executed utilizing our body bunkers for protection during entry. In addition to assisting Local and State Police agencies with numerous Controlled Dangerous Substance arrest, Search and Seizure Warrants. I have also made numerous hand to hand controlled purchases where I have had the opportunity to identify and examine, first hand the Controlled Dangerous Substances seized. I have been qualified by the Honorable Judge Marc Razinsky, Judge of the District Court for Maryland to testify as an expert witness for Marijuana, cocaine cases.

 I have also been in charge of Forfeitures of seized monies and property for the Carroll County Drug Task Force. I have attended and completed a seven day Grant Writing Class provided by the

Northeast Counter- Drug Training Center, conducted at Fort Indian Town Gap in Pennsylvania.

I have attended a five day Latent Fingerprint Workshop of Cyanoacrylate Techniques sponsored by Detecto Print.

I am a certified Doppler Radar Operator, a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, a

certified State of Maryland First Responder, a certified Preliminary Breath Test Operator (PBT), certified in the ASAP Expandable Baton, certified in the Horizontal Gaze and Nystagmus.

I am a certified D.A.R.E. instructor who also teaches 2^nd , 4^th , 8^th , and 9^th . grade Drug

Education classes that have been approved by the Carroll County Board of Ed. I also have given classes on Internet Safety at Carroll Community College.

1. I have received a Certificate of Recognition Unit Citation from the Superintendent of the Maryland State Police due to our unit conducting 188 criminal investigations resulting in 92 arrest for controlled dangerous substances and the seizure of 204 pounds of marijuana, 424 marijuana plants, 6.25 pounds of cocaine, 46 firearms and $295,929.00 in currency and assets related to controlled dangerous substances arrest. This made our Task Force the number one unit in the state for the year in 2002.

2. I received a plaque from the Carroll County Drug Task Force Advisory Board for my

supervisory and investigative contributions in the Carroll County Drug Task Force.

3. I was the keynote speaker at the Job Corps Graduation Commencement Exercises on

August 5, 2004 and received a plaque for my services.