A former member of Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane’s command staff was sentenced Wednesday to serve 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to a series of thefts as well as removing at least one lewd photograph of an underage girl from an official police file and transferring it to his personal computer.

Mark Bennett Forwood, 43, of Bel Air, was scheduled to begin serving his sentence Thursday, but as of Thursday afternoon it was unclear if he did because he was listed in the Baltimore County Detention Center’s system as being on home detention.

In April 2010, Forwood, a major with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office and a member of the sheriff’s command staff at the time, was suspended with pay after allegations of misconduct were made against him. His salary was $107,660 a year.
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