Stacy Ann Greenfield

La Plata, MD – It’s been a long road for Stacy Ann Greenfield, 26 of Port Tobacco.

She has resided in the Charles County Detention Center since her arrest Sept. 16, 2015 on first-degree burglary charges.

Another of Charles County’s citizens with an opiate addiction, she went into a neighbor’s house “looking for food.”

The problem was, she was looking in his dresser drawers, not the kitchen cabinets.

On Monday, May 16, she accepted a plea from the Charles County State’s Attorney’s Office, amended down from first-degree burglary to conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary.

Assistant State’s Attorney Constance Kopelman told Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West that Greenfield went into a neighbor’s house Sept. 15, 2015.

Kopelman said that when the neighbor returned home he found the front door to his residence open.

“When he went into his bedroom, he saw the defendant run out of the house,” Kopelman said. “He saw some of his dresser drawers were open. He suspected the defendant had opened them.

“The defendant returned and apologized,” she added. “She said the door was open and that she was looking for food.

“She does have a minor record,” Kopelman stated. “She is on probation in two theft cases. This is a drug-related case. The defendant has a heroin addiction.”

Charles County Assistant Public Defender Michele Harewood admitted her client has a drug problem.

“I’d like to get her into treatment,” she told West. “She is extremely remorseful.”

“I’ve definitely learned my lesson,” Greenfield told the court. “I know I need treatment. I’m trying to get my life back.”

West told Harewood, after sentencing Greenfield to 10 years with all but one year suspended (giving her 67 days credit for time already served), “If you can get her into treatment, I won’t put her in jail.”

Harewood said she would work to that end.

“She has been doing well in jail-based treatment so far,” Harewood noted.

West gave Greenfield five years of supervised probation, and said he would transfer probation to Virginia where Greenfield said she would live with her uncle, once she has completed treatment for her heroin addiction.

Contact Joseph Norris at joe.norris@thebaynet.com