Police Chief Gets Jail Time for Snooping on Parker-Broderick Surrogate

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Dec 30th 2009 01:31PM

Former Ohio police chief Barry Carpenter was sentenced to prison Wednesday in connection with a break-in at the home of the surrogate who bore twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. Carpenter was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. He was convicted last month on charges of receiving stolen property, theft in office and evidence tampering but acquitted of other counts, including burglary.

Carpenter resigned two weeks ago as chief in Martins Ferry, where the celebrity couple's surrogate lived. Prosecutors said he broke into Michelle Ross' home in May, took items related to her pregnancy and the surrogacy and conspired with police Chief Chad Dojack of neighboring Bridgeport to sell the items to celebrity photographers.

He testified that he saw a door to the home open and went in to check it out. He said he photographed a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach, but did not remove anything from the house.

Ross said during the trial that she was staying in a West Virginia hotel at the time and later returned home to find that ultrasound photos, surrogacy files and tax information were gone. She also testified that someone had apparently rummaged through some photos and that the plaster cast, made when she was pregnant with her own son, was misplaced.

Belmont County Common Pleas Judge John Solovan called prison time a "must" in the case, and Carpenter was immediately taken into custody after the hearing. A special prosecutor had said Carpenter could have received up to six years in prison.

The judge noted that he had received letters in support of Carpenter from members of the former chief's family, friends and police officers.

Ross gave birth to the twin girls June 22 at an Ohio hospital. Messages seeking comment on the sentence weren't immediately returned by Carpenter's attorney, Special Prosecutor T. Shawn Hervey, and Parker-Broderick spokesman Simon Halls.

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Wednesday 30 December

By cqdeed

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Two years eight months. He got off lucky. I don't know much about the law but I sure hope he was convicted of felonies at least. They might also have added abuse of his office. What is amazing to me is that a police officer was actually convicted of wrong-doing. Never would have happened in a big city with a big police force to stand behind him.

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