ELKTON — A man who broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Elkton residence in April while she and her new boyfriend were sleeping and stabbed the new boyfriend several times, including in the neck and in the face, received a 10-year prison term Wednesday.
Cecil County Circuit Court Judge Cameron A. Brown imposed a maximum 25-year sentence on the defendant — Tahmir Lowrie, 27, of Elkton — for first-degree assault and then suspended 15 years of the penalty, leaving Lowrie with a 10-year prison term. The judge credited Lowrie for 223 days that he served in jail as a pre-trial inmate after his arrest.
In addition, Brown ordered Lowrie to serve five years of supervised probation after completing his 10-year term in a Maryland Department of Corrections prison. Lowrie must under drug and alcohol evaluation, counseling and treatment; forfeit the knife that police seized from him after the assault; and successfully complete an abuser intervention program, in accordance with probation conditions set by Brown…