Fatal shooting case ends with sentence for gun, drug charges

Acquitted of murder, a Pasadena man was sentenced Wednesday to about six months in jail for drug and gun charges stemming from the fatal shooting on his property.

The sentence brings to a conclusion the court cases resulting from a deadly encounter in September 2019 that claimed the life of Jeffrey Dickinson.

After an Anne Arundel County jury determined in October that Gregory Korwek acted in self-defense when he fired a shotgun at the 44-year-old, all that remained to be resolved were the drug and gun charges resulting from the pills and arsenal of guns which investigators retrieved from Korwek’s house in Pasadena. Because of a previous conviction, he was not allowed to have the guns.

Having pleaded guilty in October to illegal possession of the shotgun he used to kill Dickinson, Korwek, 41, struck a deal with prosecutors in a separate set of charges stemming from the shooting. He pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to two counts of drug possession, two counts of possessing a rifle or shotgun despite being convicted of a disqualifying offense and three counts of illegal possession of a handgun.

Circuit Judge Donna Schaeffer sentenced him to seven years incarceration and suspended all but 18 months behind bars. She credited him for about a year of pre-trial detention, muchof which he spent on house arrest. Schaeffer tacked on five years of supervised probation upon his release. If Korwek violates probation, she