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Instead of trying him for a third time, the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office on Monday dropped the case against a Baltimore Police officer who had been accused of taking a swing at a man while off-duty in the entrance of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Officer Troy Anthony, 44, a more than eight-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, had been scheduled to stand trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on a charge of second-degree assault. He had been accused of attacking Dustin Jackson Sr. on May 19, 2020.
Anthony previously testified that he went to the hospital to check on a boy with whom he was close and that Jackson punched him first.
In 2022, Anthony was found not guilty at his first trial of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer and misconduct in office, but the jury deadlocked on a charge of second-degree assault. The jury in his second trial later in the year could not reach a unanimous verdict and voted 11-1 in favor of acquittal on that offense.
In an unrelated case, Steven Kroll, a specially assigned assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore, dropped the charges against Sgt. Robert Dohony, 54, a more than 30-year veteran.
Dohony had been awaiting a second trial on charges of attempted theft and misconduct in office involving allegations that he claimed 10 hours of overtime for listening to 1 1/2 hours of jailhouse phone calls on March 20, 2018, and March 22, 2018. A jury found him guilty in 2022 on both counts.
But Senior Judge Steven I. Platt later awarded Dohony a new trial instead of proceeding to sentencing, stating that the sergeant had been “indisputably working every minute of the overtime he claimed” and that his actions “did not come close to constituting the elements of either of the crimes with which he was charged.”
Chaz Ball, the attorney for Anthony and Dohony, declined to comment.
In an email, Lindsey Eldridge, a police spokesperson, said both of their police powers are suspended pending ongoing internal investigations.
Anthony made a total of $155,528.05 in fiscal year 2022, while Dohony earned $116,608.82, according to the city’s salary database.
dylan.segelbaum@thebaltimorebanner.com
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Dylan Segelbaum is the courts reporter at The Baltimore Banner.
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