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District Man Convicted Of Kidnapping Ex, Sexually, Physically Abusing Her For Days In DC: Feds
A District man may spend the rest of his life in prison after holding his partner hostage in his Northwest DC apartment, where he repeatedly physically and sexually abused her, federal authorities announced.
Bryant Phillips, 53, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday to multiple criminal charges after terrorizing a former lover over the course of several harrowing days nearly two years ago.
According to court documents, between June 5, 2022 and June 8, 2022, Phillips held his intimate partner hostage at his apartment in Northeast Washington DC. While there he physically and sexually as…
Georgia Man Groomed, Sexually Assaulted 12-Year-Old Maryland Girl For Months, Sheriff Says
A Georgia man who headed north across state lines to sexually abuse a young girl in Maryland who he took time grooming could spend decades in prison, according to the Calvert County State's Attorney's Office.
Marietta native Jonathan Santos, 24, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 10 years active, for sexually abusing a minor and raping a 12-year-old girl, authorities announced on Friday.
In April last year, officers from the Calvert County Sheriff's Office were tipped off about Santos, who allegedly groomed and sexually abused the girl.
Investigators say that the abuse began in 2020…
District Man Faces Life In Prison For Kidnapping, Repeatedly Raping Maryland Woman: Feds
A District man has been convicted of the kidnapping, robbery, and repeated rapes of a Maryland woman years ago, federal authorities announced on Wednesday.
Mark A. Blue, 34, was found guilty of the December 2018 assault of a woman who they targeted as she walked home from the Naylor Road Metro Station in Prince George's County.
The woman was abducted while walking from the Naylor Road Metro Station in Temple Hills Wikimedia Commons/Ben Schumin
Prosecutors say that Blue and a second man, Nick Savoy, forced her into a car, threatened to kill her, covered her eyes with her own shirt so she…
Urgent Care Doctor Convicted Of Raping, Groping Women During Exams In Silver Spring
An urgent care doctor who groped, inappropriately touched, and sexually abused patients during routine exams is facing more than four decades in prison, according to officials.
Dr. Ishtiaq Malik, 59, of Lanham, was convicted by a jury for targeting at least two patients in his care at the Advanced Walk-In Urgent Care at 10800 Lockwood Drive in Silver Spring, where he was arrested last year.
Malik was taken into custody on Feb. 16, 2023 outside of his practice, and since then, eight additional victims came forward.
Malik was found guilty on Friday of two counts each of second-degree ra…
Maryland Man Charged With Inappropriately Touching 10 People In DC: Police
A Maryland man who touched at least 10 people inappropriately before fleeing on a bicycle in DC has been apprehended, police say.
Riverdale resident Daniel Adam Grob, 46, has been arrested for a series of exchanges when he engaged in unwanted sexual contact.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Grob has been charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse offenses over the course of more than a year, including:
On Thursday, June 16, 2022, at approximately 7:40 pm in the 2100 block of K Street NW;
On Monday, August 15, 2022, at approximately 9:55 am in the 1800 block of New Hamps…
Man Wanted For Sexual Assaults In Maryland, DC Charged After Nine Years: DOJ
A man with a checkered criminal past has been charged with sexual assault in Washington, DC and Maryland, federal authorities announced.
District resident Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 37, who also calls Prince George's County home in Maryland, was arraigned on a 2014 cold case involving a sexual assault involving a stranger at a DC Metro station in 2014.
According to court documents, on July 6, 2014, Spriggs approached a stranger near the Minnesota Avenue Metro station at approximately 1 a.m., following her before physically and sexually assaulting her in an alley.
Once the assault was over, th…
