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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

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Traffic

One Dead, One Airlifted After Being Rear-Ended By Tractor-Trailer On I-95 In MD: State Police One person was killed and a second had to be airlifted to Shock Trauma in Baltimore after they were rear-ended by a tractor-trailer early on Saturday morning. Maryland State Police have launched an investigation in Baltimore County after city resident Denzel Butcher, 31, was killed and a 28-year-old man was hospitalized in a two-vehicle crash that was reported on I-95. At around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, police say that troopers were called to the southbound lanes of I-95 near Chesaco Avenue, when a Nissan Altima was possibly disabled and rear-ended by the truck driver, accordi…

09/30/2023

Police & Fire

Stripping Serial Sex Offender Caught On Camera Busted Fleeing From Police In Fairfax County A serial sexual offender who was spotted on a surveillance camera was swiftly apprehended by officers in Fairfax County. Felix Antonio Mejias Vigil, 35, who is well-known to police in Virginia, is facing a host of charges after being connected to several sex offenses over the past several months, authorities announced. On Thursday, Sept. 28, detectives from the Fairfax County Police Department were alerted to a man who was caught on camera who fit the description of a suspected wanted for indecent exposure. The video can be seen here. According to police, Mejias Vigil was caught in a park…

09/30/2023

News

Abductor Who Raped Child Walking To School At Gunpoint In Southeast DC Sentenced: DOJ Justice has been served after a malicious rapist who taunted his prepubescent victim after sexually abusing her while she was walking to school in Southeast DC. District resident Marquette Johnson, 42, a convicted felon, was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to first-degree sexual abuse while armed and first-degree child sexual abuse while armed, authorities announced. In November 2005, prosecutors say that Johnson approached a 12-year-old girl as she was walking to school, pointing a weapon at her and ordering her to get into his minivan while threatening to kil…

09/30/2023

Business

Company Won't Offer Fix For Bassinets Sold That Pose Strangulation, Suffocation Risks: Cpsc Federal officials are warning parents to immediately stop using a specific bassinet sold nationwide online that could pose a host of hazards for infants. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued an alert advising that Missouri-based Rev Grace Import is not cooperating with the agency, which is cautioning that the "5in1 Rocker Bassinets" pose a suffocation, strangulation, and fall risk. 5in1 Rocker Bassinet (Packaging)CPSC According to CPSC officials, the bassinets do not meet their requirements for their "infant sleep products rule," though the company refuses to offer a r…

09/30/2023

News

District Man Admits To Violent Murder Of Single Mom, Ex In Northwest DC District resident Carson Posey is facing a long stay behind bars after being identified by his dying ex-girlfriend following a fatal shooting three years ago. Posey, 24, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree murder while armed for the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Shantal Hill in April 2020 near the Tyler House Apartments in the 1200 block of North Capitol Street NW, federal authorities announced. According to court documents, shortly before 10:50 p.m. on April 15, 2020, Posey shot Hill nine times in the leg, buttocks, and chest, though she did not go down before flagging down her kille…

09/30/2023

Police & Fire

Pick-Up Truck Reported Stolen Out Of Delaware Torched In Maryland: Fire Marshal Truck thieves in Northern Maryland seemingly destroyed any evidence after stealing a pick-up in Delaware and bringing it across state lines. Crews from the Singerly Fire Company were called to the 300 block of Muddy Lane in Elkton earlier this week, where there was a report of a 2016 Ford F-150 that was fully engulfed in flames. It didn't take long for firefighters to control the fire, though the truck was destroyed and caused an estimated $35,000 in damage. Investigators say that the vehicle was reported stolen by the Wilmington Police Department in Delaware on Sunday, Sept. 24, and it is…

09/30/2023

News

Emmy-Nominated Producer From Arlington Gets Six Years For Child Porn Scandal James Gordon Meek is going from rubbing elbows with Hollywood's elite to doing the same with inmates wearing prison blues. The 53-year-old Emmy-nominated journalist from Virginia will spend years behind bars after admitting to child porn charges following a raid of his home that led to unsettling discoveries. Meek was sentenced to 72 months in prison for transporting photos that showed the sexual abuse of children, federal authorities announced, who previously said that he had corresponded with others who "expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children." According to…

09/30/2023

Obituaries

Baltimore Man Accused Of Murdering Sheriff's Deputy In Maryland: Police A suspect is in custody after an off-duty Howard County Sheriff's deputy was shot and killed in Baltimore on Friday morning. City resident Jewel Crowder, 40, has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of 23-year-old Deputy Ryan Alexandr Demby, authorities announced. The Baltimore Police Department announced the arrest on Saturday. Demby was in a bar shortly after midnight when an argument broke out between patrons, during which, Crowder allegedly pulled out a gun and began firing, striking the deputy several times. It was later determined that the incident began at W…

09/30/2023

Police & Fire

Man Arrested After Double Fatal Shooting At Jimmie's Paddock Bar in White Plains: Sheriff New details have emerged after a shooter was arrested in connection to the fatal double shooting of two people on Friday morning in Charles County. White Plains resident James Fred Coffen, 45, is facing multiple murder charges following a shooting shortly after midnight that killed two people following a bar fight at Jimmie's Paddock. Mariah Termetrice Logan, 27, of Waldorf, and Indian Head resident Paul Ernest Fleming, 36, have been identified by the Charles County Sheriff's Office as the two people who were shot and killed on Friday, Sept. 29 in White Plains. Investigators say that there…

09/30/2023

News

'Obsessed' Jilted Lover Sentenced After Flying To DC To Murder Ex: Feds If she couldn't have him, nobody could. A PhD student and employee of the University of Notre Dame will have time to think about her decisions in prison after she was found kneeling at the foot of the body of a recent divorcee she was seeing while holding a murder weapon in DC, federal authorities announced. Nijinsky Dix, 40, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fatally shooting 44-year-old Terry Hickman in Southwest DC while the pair was casually dating. According to prosecutors, on Nov. 14, 2020, Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to the 1000 b…

09/29/2023

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