Drug Counselor Indicted For Faking Drug Tests, Having Sex With Client

SEVERN, MD — A Severn drug counselor allegedly used drugs and had sex with a probation client and tried to conceal the man’s pretrial release violations, according to federal charges. A grand jury on Thursday indicted licensed drug counselor Jennifer Hamersky, also known as Jennifer Maroney and Jennifer Hurt, 33, of Severn, for conspiring to conceal alleged violations of pretrial release by one of Hamersky’s clients. Anthony Evans Owings Seen, also known as Tony, 31, of Glen Burnie, was also indicted.

According to the seven-count indictment, Hamersky is a licensed clinical professional addictions counselor contracted to provide mental health and substance abuse assessments and counseling, and urinalysis testing, for pretrial offenders and supervised release defendants under the supervision of the United States Probation and Pretrial Services Office in Maryland. Seen, who is on supervised release under the supervision of USPO, met Hamersky in August 2015, when she conducted Seen’s initial substance abuse diagnostic assessment for the probation office.

Hamersky served as the pretrial release substance abuse and mental health counselor for an unidentified man from September 2015 through February 2016, and again from August 2016 through February 2017, with a break due while the prisoner was incarcerated. Hamersky was responsible for communicating the man's compliance with pretrial release conditions of counseling and urinalysis testing to the probation office.

The indictment alleges that Hamersky and Seen conspired to, and obstructed justice in an effort to conceal from probation officers and federal and district court judges, the man’s violations of his conditions of release. The violations alleged in the indictment include: use of narcotic drugs or other controlled substances; failure to appear for urinalysis testing; and failure to appear for counseling sessions.

Prosecutors say that Hamersky included false information and omitted details in the subject’s monthly treatment reports which were submitted to the probation office, and that she provided false information to the subject’s attorney and probation officials about the subject's compliance with conditions of release.

The Department of Justice says that Hamersky forged or caused to be forged the initials of the company urinalysis collector on reports in order to make it appear that the person on probation had participated in urinalysis testing, when in fact, he had not. In addition, the indictment alleges that Hamersky falsely represented to the company urinalysis collector that the unidentified man's probation officer had authorized his removal from the urinalysis testing list, and had authorized Hamersky to collect urinalysis samples from the man. Seen also obtained the man's signature on reports to make it appear that he had attended urinalysis testing and counseling sessions, when he had not attended the testing or sessions, authorities said.

According to court documents, from October 2015 through at least February 2016, while the man was under Hamersky’s supervision, the pair engaged in repeated sexual encounters, and used narcotic drugs or other controlled substances together.

While the man was incarcerated, Hamersky allegedly purchased, and delivered to the detention facility electronics, clothing, and other items for the man's benefit. The indictment claims that Hamersky also paid for and had money orders sent to buy narcotic drugs or other controlled substances used by the man while he was incarcerated.

After the man’s release from detention in May 2016, Hamersky and the man ended their sexual encounters, although she continued to counsel the man as part of his conditions of pretrial release. The indictment also alleges that from September 2016 through February 2017, Hamersky and Seen had a sexual relationship.

Hamersky and Seen each face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy; a maximum of 20 years in prison for each count of obstruction of justice; and a maximum of five years in prison for each count of making a false document. Hamersky also faces a maximum of five years in prison for making a false statement.