Ex-Baltimore County Paramedic Gets 25 Years for Contamination

Christopher M. Carroll reached for a tissue in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in Towson on Tuesday and wiped tears from his face. He wore an orange jumpsuit. The 36-year-old former paramedic stood to address the court on the day of his sentencing.

“I’m truly sorry to everyone who has been involved,” he said. “I’m absolutely ashamed that I caused so much hurt.” He stopped more than once as he spoke, wiped his face, and kept going.

About a dozen uniformed Baltimore County Fire Department employees sat silent in the gallery. Three who had worked alongside him delivered victim impact statements. They described anger, humiliation, and disgust. His conduct felt deeply personal, they told the court. It had taken place in the stations and offices where first responders are supposed to feel protected. Some described ongoing anxiety. One said Carroll had “preyed on the very people who trust him most.”

In August he had pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of causing another person to ingest bodily fluids. The plea fixed the legal charge.

Investigators found 64 videos uploaded to Carroll’s account on the pornography site JustForFans. Many had been filmed at work, at Baltimore County Fire Station 2 in Pikesville and at the Baltimore County Public Safety Building in Towson. Items shown in the footage were tested afterward. They held his bodily fluids and DNA.

One recording captured him masturbating into a coffee creamer bottle that he then returned to a shared refrigerator. He put bodily fluids inside an ambulance and in food cooked at a firehouse. He urinated into an ice machine used by more than a dozen employees. He ejaculated onto a female supervisor’s keyboard near where she ate breakfast and lunch.

“I wanted to be some sort of porn star,” Carroll said.

He had filmed the acts and posted them for monetary gain. The investigation began in November 2025, stemming from allegations reported between September and December of that year. Carroll most recently lived in York County, Pennsylvania. He was arrested in February on 23 misdemeanor counts, a total also reported as 20 counts of causing another person to ingest bodily fluid plus three counts of malicious destruction. The fire department suspended him pending the investigation. Hazmat cleaning followed at the stations and offices.

The courthouse sits in Towson, inside Baltimore County, a jurisdiction that partly surrounds the independent city of Baltimore without including it and that holds more than 850,000 residents of its own. Major sectors there include education, government, and health care. Carroll had served as a paramedic in that system.

Defense attorney Seth Okin told the court that Carroll had no prior criminal history. Okin described him as a Christian, a former Boy Scout, and a Maryland Army National Guard veteran. “He has mental health issues,” Okin said. “It doesn’t serve as an excuse, but it does serve as a rationale.”

Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. went past the term prosecutors had sought. They had asked for 10 years. The state’s attorney’s office had separately described a 30-year request. Robinson pointed to the camaraderie Carroll had shattered among the people who worked beside him, to the public trust the acts had broken, and to the number of people the crimes had reached. Fire employees, he said, should not have to worry about their safety inside their own workplace.

“This case begs the question: Who does things like this?” Robinson said.

Deputy State’s Attorney Lisa Dever put the harm in plainer terms still. “That is what this defendant brought to a community of people who only want to serve,” she said.

Robinson sentenced him to 25 years in prison, the terms to run consecutively on the three counts. Carroll sat with his head bowed as the number was read. He showed no visible reaction.

Steve Redmer, president of the Baltimore County firefighters union, IAFF Local 1311, answered the sentence in a statement. “I thank Judge Robinson for recognizing the profound impact of these crimes and imposing a sentence above the recommendation,” he said. “Today’s 25-year sentence represents meaningful accountability for the harm inflicted on our members.” He added, “While today’s sentence cannot undo what happened, I hope that today’s decision provides some measure of closure for those affected.”

Okin said Carroll’s appellate rights were limited by the guilty plea. Carroll was considering a request for review by a three-judge panel, which could reduce, uphold, or increase the term. “This was a very harsh sentence for someone who has mental health issues,” Okin wrote. “Jail will never heal that, or Christopher.”