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Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor
A Maryland drug and sex trafficker who ferried a young girl from Mexico into the DMV region will spend decades behind bars for his role in a nefarious scheme, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced. Gaithersburg resident Francisco Barahona, 46, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with all but 30 years suspended after pleading guilty last year to sexually abusing a minor. According to prosecutors, in 2019, Barahona was in the middle of serving a 10-year sentence for federal drug trafficking charges when the victim in the second case came forward to the police to …
Obituaries
Community Rallying To Send Body Back To Guatemala After Fatal Hit-Run In Maryland
Friends and family of a 50-year-old man who was killed by a hit-and-run driver on New Year's Day are rallying the community for support as they hope to send his body back to his native Guatemala. Marcial Gregorio Tom was struck at around 8:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 1 at the intersection of Landover Road and Neighbor Lane in Cheverly by an unknown driver who fled the scene after the fatal strike, police say. According to a department spokesperson, officers were called to the intersection when passersby found the unresponsive man in the roadway. Investigators say that the driver was trave…
Police & Fire
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot
The US Marshals have widened a search for a Maryland woman who they say was involved in an interstate murder-for-hire plot with her husband, reports Fox Baltimore. Jessica Erazo-Rosa, 36, is wanted on federal charges and has been on the run for more than a year since the arrest of her husband Rudy Adonaldo-Chaves following a 2019 undercover investigation into an international drug trafficking ring, continues the outlet. Erazo-Rosa is said to have been intimately involved with the plot, which was uncovered after an undercover agent set up an undercover buy. During the operation, he reportedl…
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Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.
Police & Fire
Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip
A pair of Baltimore sisters away on a girls trip were among eight victims of an unprovoked attack on the Las Vegas strip last week. Gabby and Cassy Hewes and the six other people were stabbed near the Wynn Las Vegas around 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, according to loved ones and local police. Two of those victims died. The suspect has been identified as Yoni Barrios, a 32-year-old Guatemalan native who carried out the attack to "let the anger out," abc7 reports. More than $16,000 had been raised for the Hewes sisters on a GoFundMe page as of Tuesday, Oct. 11.
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