Monday, July 24, 2006

Salisbury, MD news story with reference to Meroney at WMAR/2 in Baltimore

Memphis Anchor Returns To MD To Face 1974 Rape Charge -
7/14 -
From the Salisbury Daily Times:

A Memphis television anchor indicted last year for statutory rape was officially charged in Maryland Thursday. Ronald Meroney (right), 69, of Arlington, Tennessee, turned himself into the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office for one count of statutory rape dating back to 1974. He had been indicted by a Wicomico County grand jury in late 2005. Meroney - who lived in Maryland in the 1970s and 1980s and worked at Baltimore's Channel 2/WMAR - was serving as a anchor on "Good Morning Memphis," via a Fox affiliated television station, when he was arrested by Tennessee police for the Wicomico warrant in May. He then elected to fight extradition back to Maryland. Now in the custody of Maryland authorities, Meroney's next court appearance will be at a bail hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.....

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