Former State Employee Charged With Stealing on the Job

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler today announced that Danielle Selena Blue, 31, of Barrett Road in Baltimore, Maryland, was charged (on January 17, 2007) with the crime of felony theft of approximately $7,414.00 from the State of Maryland, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The charges further allege that the theft occurred from October 15, 2005 until May 16, 2006, while Danielle Blue was employed by the State to work at the Board of Audiologists, Hearing Aid Examiners and Speech-Language Pathologists. No trial date has been set by the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

The pending case will be prosecuted by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. While a criminal charge is merely an accusation of wrongdoing and every individual is presumed innocent unless the State proves the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, felony theft is punishable by a maximum sentence of fifteen (15) years or a fine of $25,000.00, or both.