Daily Record

The state prosecutor’s office says a Baltimore housing official has pleaded guilty to the theft of gift cards also mentioned in the indictment of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.

The prosecutors office announced Thursday that Lindbergh Carpenter Jr. of Owings Mills stole seven Toys R Us gift cards worth $140 that he had bought in December 2007 for use during the Mayor’s Holly Trolley Charitable Tour. Prosecutors say the cards were used to pay for part of the purchase of a $265 Nintendo Wii video game.

Carpenter is an assistant commissioner in the Community Action Partnership office of the Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development. The prosecutors office says he pleaded guilty to theft of less than $500.