Christopher Southerland 43, of Glen Burnie, worked as a system administrator for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from April 2020 through July 2023—an IT role that included the ability to request mobile phones for staff.
Prosecutors say he exploited that access by ordering roughly 240 new government phones and having them shipped to his home in Maryland. At the time, the committee had only about 80 staff members, investigators noted.
Southerland, allegedly, sold more than 200 of the phones to a nearby pawn shop, a volume investigators say was far beyond any normal device replacement cycle.
Prosecutors claim he also told a pawn shop employee to break the phones down and sell them “in parts,” allegedly to avoid detection through the House’s mobile device management software.
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