A New York man made hundreds of crank calls to Maryland police agencies because he was angry over a two-year-old speeding ticket he received while in the state, his lawyer said Monday.

Bobby Collins, 32, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to time served Monday in Baltimore County District Court by Judge Barbara Jung. He was arrested April 29 shortly after he called the Baltimore Police Department to make a false report of a crime.

“How do we get this to stop?” Jung asked. “He’s making all these phone calls because he’s angry about a ticket from two years ago.”

Those comments caused Collins’ attorney, Mark Van Bavel, to turn and berate his client.

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“What you did was one of the most irrational things I’ve ever seen someone do,” Van Bavel said.

“It’s over,” Collins assured the judge.

In late March, Collins began making repeated rude and abusive calls to law enforcement agencies in Maryland. He demanded to talk to police officers, then threatened the officers with bodily harm, according to state police.

On April 2, Collins called the Howard County 911 Center, falsely claiming he had just seen a trooper get shot on Interstate 95 near Route 175 — the same intersection where Cpl. Theodore D. Wolf Sr. was killed March 29, 1990.

“This was very unnerving for those of us who were working the night Trooper Wolf was killed,” Maryland State Police 1st Sgt. Russell Newell said at the time of Collins’ arrest. “He was just being vicious.”

Newell said Collins repeated the hoax in two other Maryland jurisdictions.

From March 29 to April 2, Collins placed 84 calls to 911 centers in Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. He also called the Baltimore City 911 Center 253 times between March 31 and April 22, according to state police.

Collins also was sentenced to time served in Howard County and received two years of probation in Baltimore City.

lbroadwater@baltimoreexaminer.com