CECIL COUNTY, Md. — A former deputy with the Cecil County Sheriff's Office learned his fate Wednesday after pleading guilty to multiple counts of misconduct in office and unauthorized access to a computer.

Dontae Odom was sentenced to eight years in prison, with all but six months suspended, according to the Office of the State Prosecutor.

Court documents say Odom, who worked as a deputy from 2019 to August 2025, used his police database access to find information about seven different people, including his wife, romantic partners, relatives of his romantic partners, a hotel employee, and a woman who worked in his office building.

He even assured one of the victims that he was not looking for their information, but this was later determined to be false.

Odom began a relationship with o

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