An 18-year old Mt. Hebron High School student was indicted on sex offense charges Wednesday for allegedly sexually touching two female students in the school nurse's office in separate incidents June 14.
A Howard County grand jury also indicted a 50-year-old handyman on charges that he tried to rape a female client, and a 34-year-old man accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the county detention center in a body cavity during a weekend stay.
Trey Michael Murduck, of Ellicott City, is free on $15,000 bail in the Mount Hebron incident. A junior at the school, Murduck was accused by a 14-year-old girl of showing her a knife in the nurse's office, making provocative comments and inappropriately touching her. She told police he was waiting for her in a curtained area with a bed at 8:45 a.m. She fled but didn't report the incident until she told her parents.
About 90 minutes later, a 16-year-old girl sent to the nurse said Murduck made similar comments and also touched her sexually, but she resisted. She reported the incident to school officials, who called police. Murduck was arrested several days later in Woodbine.
Michael Anthony Harris, 50, of Ellicott City, was indicted for allegedly trying to rape a 48-year old woman on June 10 after she hired him to do painting and home repairs. She told police she had given him a key to the house after he requested one and she came home to find him shirtless at the bottom of her basement stairs.
According to police, he made suggestive comments to her and when she tried to leave the house he blocked her and made sexual advances. The woman persuaded him to stop but he said he'd return the next day, police said. When he did, police were waiting and arrested him.
In the third case, Daniel Lee Speirs of Elkridge was overheard on a jailhouse telephone conversation January 8 allegedly planning to bring drugs into the jail when he came to serve part of a weekend sentence, according to charging documents. Police were called and took him to Howard County General Hospital, where they said they found a balloon filled with prescription medicines in a body cavity. He's facing 10 drug counts.