Crime Scene: June 6, 2010 - June 12, 2010
Sexual assaults in Annandale
Fairfax County sex crimes detectives are investigating three incidents in which a man grabbed or inappropriately touched women after quickly approaching them at night as they walked in the Avant Apartment Complex in Annandale....
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June 11, 2010; 11:29 AM ET |
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Arrest in Northeast D.C. killing
Reginald Vernell Cullen, 59, of Northeast, has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Reginald Taylor, 69, of the 1100 block of 16th St NE, District police said. Taylor was assaulted on Nov. 4 near Bladensburg Road...
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June 11, 2010; 9:56 AM ET |
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Copper copped from Md. churches
Is nothing sacred? Montgomery County detectives are searching for a suspect caught on a security camera May 6 carting away copper downspouts police say he pulled off the United Church of Christ at 1 Westmoreland Circle in Bethesda....
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June 11, 2010; 7:01 AM ET |
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Driver in ditch cites 'alligator'
A Texas man charged with drunk driving in Florida says he drove into a ditch because he was "distracted by an alligator in his headlights," according to this report: He also said he'd had "six beers or so." The first...
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June 11, 2010; 6:11 AM ET |
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Maryland state trooper shot, killed
A Maryland state police officer was shot and killed early Friday in the parking lot of a Forestville-area restaurant, Maryland state police said.
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June 11, 2010; 4:59 AM ET |
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Ex-U-Md. student dies in plunge
Last Saturday, Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, held off Los Angeles police SWAT team members for eight hours, standing at the edge of a cliff and brandishing a samurai sword, threatening to turn the blade on himself. Then he jumped, plunging 50 feet to his death, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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June 10, 2010; 5:07 PM ET |
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Seeking suspects in armored car heist
Prince George’s County police are looking for two people who robbed a woman as she was transporting money from a bank to an armored car in Fort Washington, authorities said Thursday. The incident occurred just after 2 p.m. on May...
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June 10, 2010; 2:40 PM ET |
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Missing D.C. boy found unharmed
An 11-year-old boy who D.C. police said went missing Saturday was found earlier this week unharmed. Police reported Sunday that Anthony Thomas was last seen Saturday at about 3 p.m. in the 100 block of Ivanhoe Street, SW. He was...
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June 10, 2010; 12:59 PM ET |
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Camera charge for ex-AOL exec
An original employee of and software developer for America Online has been arrested by Fairfax County police for allegedly placing a hidden camera in a changing room next to the pool at his home in Centreville and secretly filming teenagers.
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June 10, 2010; 12:18 PM ET |
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Man cleared in bank robbery
A Centreville man who was arrested for a January bank robbery in Manassas was released from jail earlier this year after police determined that he was not connected with the crime....
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June 10, 2010; 12:10 PM ET |
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Honors for slain museum guard
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is marking the first anniversary since one of its security guards was gunned down by a white supremacist. Thirty-nine-year-old Officer Stephen T. Johns of Temple Hills, Md., was shot and killed by James von Brunn...
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June 10, 2010; 12:09 PM ET |
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DUI charge for Md. official
Anne Arundel County police say the director of the Maryland attorney general's civil rights office is facing drunken driving charges. Carl O. Snowden was arrested early Tuesday in Crownsville after police say an officer saw his car veer across the...
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June 10, 2010; 9:20 AM ET |
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Woman calls 911; wants hubby
An Ohio woman spent three days in jail for calling 911 repeatedly, saying she wanted a husband. The 57-year-old Audrey Scott blames the incident on alcohol....
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June 10, 2010; 9:17 AM ET |
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Second teen arrested in D.C. killing
A second teenage boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a Capitol Heights man, D.C. police said. The victim, 29-year-old Manuel D. Sanchez, was working with a cleaning crew behind a property in the...
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June 10, 2010; 8:24 AM ET |
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Feds go after Nigerian scam profits
An e-mail that lands in your inbox explains that the victim of a tragic plane crash left behind cash and you’re the beneficiary. If the story sounds unbelievable, that’s because it was. We’ve all heard about so-called "Nigerian scams," and...
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June 10, 2010; 8:18 AM ET |
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Cop shoots dog, Md. teen hit
Baltimore police say a 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg when an officer fired at a dog attacking a group of youths. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi that officers came across a group of youths being attacked by a pit...
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June 10, 2010; 8:11 AM ET |
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Three men shot in Oxon Hill
Prince George’s police are investigating a triple shooting outside a residence in Oxon Hill early Thursday.
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June 10, 2010; 5:15 AM ET |
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Woman killed in St. Mary's crash
A D.C. woman was struck and killed by a vehicle in Charlotte Hall Tuesday night, Maryland State Police said. Doria M. Bethea, 42, was entering the street from a median at about 10:47 p.m. when she was hit by a...
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June 9, 2010; 3:03 PM ET |
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18 mos. in fake hostage incident in Md.
A former waiter in Frederick is spending 18 months in jail for robbing his workplace by pretending to take an alleged accomplice hostage. Twenty-one-year-old Zachary Saltzman was sentenced Tuesday in Frederick County Circuit Court....
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June 9, 2010; 2:51 PM ET |
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Silver Spring death ruled a homicide
The death of a 25-year-old man who was found in a Silver Spring alleyway early Monday has been ruled a homicide, Montgomery County police said.
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June 9, 2010; 1:20 PM ET |
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Man charged with pimping girl, 12
A 42-year-old Glen Burnie man is jailed in Anne Arundel County on charges he trafficked and prostituted a minor after a federal and state task force on human trafficking on Monday removed a 12-year-old girl from the suspect's motel room...
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June 9, 2010; 10:25 AM ET |
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Ex-Va. teacher admits sex with teen
A former Winchester teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old female student. Adrian A. Ellis of Waynesboro pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a child while serving in a custodial role....
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June 9, 2010; 10:15 AM ET |
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Treat, don't jail in Baltimore: Group
An advocacy group says Baltimore needs to change its approach toward those accused of nonviolent crimes and emphasize treatment instead of jail. The Washington-based Justice Policy Institute says in a report released Tuesday that Baltimore is the nation's most active...
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June 9, 2010; 10:13 AM ET |
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Md. escapee caught with gun
Maryland State Police say an escapee from the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland was carrying a loaded, .22-caliber handgun when he was caught. Trooper First Class Jason Langley tells the Cumberland Times-News that Kevin Corcoran broke into an unoccupied...
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June 9, 2010; 8:34 AM ET |
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Utah prepares firing squad
Barring a last-minute reprieve, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, a hood will be placed over his head and a small white target will be pinned over his heart. The order will come: "Ready, aim..." The 49-year-old...
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June 9, 2010; 8:29 AM ET |
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Man found shot in D.C. park
District police were called to Fort Dupont Park in the 3400 block of Minnesota Avenue SE at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after U.S. Park Police discovered the body of a black male, possibly in his 40s, whose identity police have...
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June 9, 2010; 8:20 AM ET |
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Police: Mom left girl to use heroin
A Virginia woman is accused of leaving her 3-year-old daughter in a car outside a motel in Frederick while she used heroin inside. Frederick police say officers were called to the motel about 7 a.m. Tuesday, where they found the...
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June 9, 2010; 8:16 AM ET |
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Official Colombia residence burgled
The ambassador of Colombia was awakened early Monday by a burglary at her official residence in a Dupont Circle mansion. Two people were later arrested and charged in the incident, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, which...
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June 9, 2010; 8:13 AM ET |
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Immigrants found in band's speakers
Members of an English rock band were stopped and arrested after authorities found illegal immigrants in their speakers as they returned from a European tour, according to this report: Customs officers discovered four Vietnamese immigrants hiding inside their speakers and...
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June 9, 2010; 8:03 AM ET |
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Howard Co. crash kills Md. woman
A 30-year-old Baltimore woman died in a Tuesday morning crash in Howard County, according to police. A Dodge Neon traveling west on Scaggsville Rd. in Fulton stopped in the roadway to turn left onto Fulton Estates Court, according to a...
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June 8, 2010; 3:53 PM ET |
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Video: Son accused of killing mom
A Michigan mom is dead and authorities accuse her teenage son of beating her to death with a frying pan....
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June 8, 2010; 3:39 PM ET |
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Woman dies after Pr. William crash
A Prince William County woman died Monday from injuries sustained during a June 2 crash, according to police. Police responded to 2300 Opitz Blvd. at around 12:20 p.m. on June 2 to investigate a two-vehicle crash. The driver of a...
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June 8, 2010; 3:34 PM ET |
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Police investigate D.C. stabbing
D.C. police are investigating a Monday stabbing that killed a 36-year-old Southeast man. Officers responded to the 1700 block of Trinidad Ave. NE at around 8:06 p.m. in response to a report of a stabbing, authorities said. They found an...
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June 8, 2010; 3:15 PM ET |
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Killer wants off Va. death row
Lawyers for a death row inmate asked the Virginia Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn his sentence because a juror's co-workers urged her to give him death. Joshua Andrews, 27, was convicted in a 2002 shooting spree that left two dead...
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June 8, 2010; 2:58 PM ET |
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2 years for former Md. prison worker
A former correctional officer who funneled drugs and cell phones to an inmate will be experiencing prison life from the other side. Twenty-one-year-old Lynae Chapman was sentenced Monday to two years in prison. She pleaded guilty to six charges, including...
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June 8, 2010; 2:52 PM ET |
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Natalee Holloway Center opens
Five years have passed since Natalee Holloway became one of the nation's most publicized missing persons, vanishing on the Caribbean island of Aruba during a trip with classmates from her Alabama high school. On Tuesday, her mother was in Washington...
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June 8, 2010; 2:19 PM ET |
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Va. man charged in sex extortion plot
An Alexandria man has been charged with extortion after allegedly threatening to destroy a married man's life with photos of him involved in homosexual acts, according to an FBI affidavit filed in a federal court in Michigan. The victim was...
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June 8, 2010; 2:01 PM ET |
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W.Va. murder suspect sought in D.C.
Authorities say a Berkeley County, W. Va., woman whose body was found in a burned apartment along with her young son may have owed a suspect money. Authorities continued their search Tuesday for Antonio Prophet, of Lorton, who was charged...
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June 8, 2010; 11:39 AM ET |
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Hearing for George Huguely delayed
A hearing for George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of murdering fellow student and lacrosse player Yeardley Love, has been reset for Oct. 7, Huguely's defense lawyer said Tuesday. Huguely, 22, of Chevy Chase, remained...
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June 8, 2010; 10:49 AM ET |
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Family members of Colonial Parkway killing victims plan more searches
Family members of presumed victims of a serial killer on the Colonial Parkway say they plan to conduct more searches of the roadway for remains after a weekend search was unsuccessful. Cadaver dogs and volunteers searched Saturday for the remains...
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June 8, 2010; 8:52 AM ET |
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Video: Dutchman van der Sloot confesses to murder in Peru
Peruvian police say the Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week. Van der Sloot confessed during an interrogation. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of...
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June 8, 2010; 8:15 AM ET |
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Former CIA station chief pleads guilty to sex abuse
A former CIA station chief who allegedly raped an unconscious Algerian woman pleaded guilty in a D.C. courtroom Monday to abusive sexual contact and use of cocaine while possessing a firearm. Andrew Warren, 42, faces up to 10 years in...
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June 8, 2010; 8:10 AM ET |
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Ex-D.C. cop guilty of weapons charges in man's 2008 shooting death
A former detective with the D.C. police department has been found guilty for his role in the 2008 shooting of a man in Southeast D.C. Prosecutors said in D.C. Superior Court that 52-year-old Sheldon Hargrove, of Camp Springs, responded to...
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June 8, 2010; 8:02 AM ET |
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D.C. man gets 21 years in beating death
A Washington man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after admitting that he beat a man to death in a Southeast D.C. parking lot. Davon Ellis, 20, and two other men attacked Gerard Monk during a money dispute...
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June 8, 2010; 7:54 AM ET |
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Four months for Md. man who threw Chihuahua off bridge
A man who threw a stranger's 4-pound Chihuahua off a bridge to her death in a fit of anger told the owners Monday that he “was wrong, plain and simple,” before a judge sentenced him to four months in jail....
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June 8, 2010; 7:48 AM ET |
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Armored car courier held up in Hyattsville
An armored car courier -- the one who carries the moneybags -- was held up at gun point Monday as he carried a deposit from a Safeway supermarket in Hyattsville, the Hyattsville police said. The courier was leaving the store...
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June 8, 2010; 6:21 AM ET |
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Police identify girl slain in Greenbelt
Police on Monday identified the 16-year-old girl shot and killed late last month in Greenbelt as Jericka Chambers of Landover, and said for the first time that they think her shooting was “not random.”
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June 7, 2010; 6:49 PM ET |
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Police probe man's death in Silver Spring
Montgomery County police are investigating a suspicious death in Silver Spring as a homicide. Police got a report of an injured man in the 800 block of University Avenue East shortly after 1 a.m. Monday, said Capt. Paul Starks, a...
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June 7, 2010; 4:00 PM ET |
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Attack on pregnant woman in Montgomery induced labor
The Friday attack on a pregnant woman in Montgomery County induced labor, authorities said Monday, but both the mother – who is more than 35 weeks pregnant – and child are now safe and healthy. Christine Devaux, 38, faces attempted...
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June 7, 2010; 2:31 PM ET |
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Terminal mom kills disabled son and herself
A woman in her 60s recently diagnosed with terminal cancer apparently shot and killed her disabled son, then killed herself, and detectives suspect the woman feared that her disease would leave her unable to care for her adult son, authorities...
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June 7, 2010; 2:30 PM ET |
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"Dead man" pleads guilty to attempted fraud in Fairfax
Rodney Newsome, whose last court case in Fairfax was dismissed when the judge was informed he had died, pleaded guilty Monday morning to an unrelated case of attempted fraud, committed seven months after his alleged passing. His request to be released on bond was then summarily rejected by Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Williams.
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June 7, 2010; 12:55 PM ET |
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Fairfax man sought after W. Va. fire kills woman, 3-year-old
The bodies of a woman and her 3-year-old son have been found in a burned home in Berkeley County and authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Fairrfax County man. The badly burned bodies were found inside the home...
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June 7, 2010; 11:34 AM ET |
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Balt. officer suspected in nightclub shooting shot man while drunk in 2005
Baltimore police say an officer suspected of killing a man outside a nightclub over the weekend was disciplined by the department five years ago for shooting a man while intoxicated. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says 36-year-old Gahiji Tshamba shot a...
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June 7, 2010; 8:25 AM ET |
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Frederick Co. woman charged in attack on pregnant woman in Montgomery
Montgomery County police say a Frederick County woman is accused of attacking a pregnant woman in her home near Damascus. Police say 38-year-old Christine Renee Devaux, of Monrovia, was arrested late Friday night at a Frederick motel....
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June 7, 2010; 7:57 AM ET |
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Sentencing for Md. man who threw Chihuahua off bridge
A Brunswick man who threw a stranger's teacup Chihuahua off a bridge, apparently to its death, faces sentencing in Frederick. Prosecutors are seeking jail time for 35-year-old David Beers at his sentencing Monday....
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June 7, 2010; 7:53 AM ET |
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Pair sought after Chesapeake Bay boating hit-and-run
A 55-year-old Northern Virginia man was injured Saturday in the Chesapeake Bay in what authorities described as a hit-and-run incident. Maryland Natural Resources Police said Mark Gentile, a resident of the Alexandria area, was hit by a boat while in...
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June 7, 2010; 7:45 AM ET |
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Man who tried sneaking pot into Okla. courthouse arrested
A man was arrested after he put marijuana in the security tray at an Oklahoma City courthouse security checkpoint, according to this report: Cleveland County Deputies Steve Lucas and Jacob Wheeler said when Vaughn Ray Jones Jr. first went through...
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June 7, 2010; 7:39 AM ET |
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