Ex-fire company volunteer charged with sex abuse

A Baltimore man who once volunteered for a fire company in Anne Arundel County was arrested Wednesday on multiple sexabuse charges, county police said. Preston Lamont Scott II, 31, is accused of abusing two children he knew. To protect their identities, police did not release the children’s ages, gender or relationship to Scott. The investigation began in August. Charges against Scott include second-degree child abuse, sex abuse of a minor and child pornography. Scott organized monthly dances for teenagers as fundraisers for the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Company, police said. Police Department spokesman Lt. T.J. Smith said detectives have no evidence indicating that he abused children at the dances, but asked anyone who might have been a victim to call police. Fire company president Joseph Wojtowycz said Scott volunteered there from November 2006 through May 2013. Scott, of the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave., is being held on $22 million bail at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center. —

Corrections official to become Roxbury warden

A deputy secretary for the state’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will become warden of the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, officials announced Friday. Deputy Secretary of Operations J. Michael Stouffer will take on the new position at the medium-security prison Oct. 30, they said. He previously worked at Roxbury in various roles from 1983 to 1994, including as assistant warden. State officials said Stouffer asked to return to the field and that they would begin recruiting for his position immediately. The former warden of the facility, Gregg Hershberger, recently became executive director of the department’s North Region. —