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Predator In Maryland Used Hidden Camera To Film Underage Girls In His Bathroom, Feds Say Predator In Maryland Used Hidden Camera To Film Underage Girls In His Bathroom, Feds Say
Predator In Maryland Used Hidden Camera To Film Underage Girls In His Bathroom, Feds Say A predator in Maryland will spend more than a decade in prison after admitting to using a hidden camera in his bathroom to peep on underage girls. Charles Wheat III, 38, pleaded guilty in federal court to producing sexually explicit images of at least five minors while they used the bathroom in his Bel Air home, authorities announced. According to the plea, between April and November 2020, What used the hidden camera to produce sexually explicit imagery of five girls who used a bathroom in his home, while also cooperating with sex traffickers in the Philippines who he paid for videos of min…

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by Zak Failla
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Winning $1M Maryland Lottery Ticket Sold To Lucky Door Dash Driver At Area 7-Eleven Winning $1M Maryland Lottery Ticket Sold To Lucky Door Dash Driver At Area 7-Eleven
Winning $1M Maryland Lottery Ticket Sold To Lucky Door Dash Driver At Area 7-Eleven One lucky Maryland Lottery player couldn’t help but to dash straight to the Winners Circle to claim a million dollar prize. An Anne Arundel County Door Dash driver turned $20 into a seven-figure windfall after buying a “Million Dollar Mega Multiplier” scratch-off ticket that was a top prize winner. The 47-year-old woman, who opted not to disclose a name, said on Monday, June 12, that she frequented 7-Eleven on Donaldson Avenue in Severn, where she spotted the ticket and “immediately grabbed it,” according to Lottery officials. She went back to her car and didn’t wait long to scratch it ou…

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by Zak Failla
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Purple Heart Marine Was DWI In Crash That Seriously Injured 14-Year-Olds In VA: Police Purple Heart Marine Was DWI In Crash That Seriously Injured 14-Year-Olds In VA: Police
Purple Heart Marine Was DWI In Crash That Seriously Injured 14-Year-Olds In VA: Police A US Marine sergeant awarded the Purple Heart was being held in the Rappahanock County Jail on drug and DWI charges for a Stafford crash that sent two 14-year-olds to the hospital via medevac, authorities confirmed. Beth Ellen Abbott is being held on a $6,000 bond for two counts of DWI with serious injury and drug possession, according to jail records. Abbott's photo had been removed from the Marine Corps website as of Friday, June 2. Deputies from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, and officers from the Aquia Harbour Police Department responded to the 2100 block of Aquia Drive for a re…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ
Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ A former state department employee admitted in court to having sexual conduct with Philippine minors, authorities said. Dean Edward Cheves, 63, pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Cheves met multiple minors over the Internet while serving at the US Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021, federal officials said. From Dec. 2020 to March 2021, the man communicated online with a then 15 to 16-year-old Philippine juvenile, who he paid …

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom
Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom A 36-year-old government attorney from the Philippines was shot in the head and killed during a trip to Philadelphia this weekend, the country's consulate general confirmed. John Albert Laylo was in the back of an Uber with his mom when nearly 15 shots were fired into the rear window and driver's side of the car at 38th and Spruce Streets around 4:10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, police said. Laylo was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition, and died Sunday morning after being on life support, police said. The incident was random and possibly a road-rage inciden…

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by Cecilia Levine