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Predator Who Traveled From Maryland To West Virginia Expecting Sex With Child Sentenced: Feds Predator Who Traveled From Maryland To West Virginia Expecting Sex With Child Sentenced: Feds
Predator Who Traveled From Maryland To West Virginia Expecting Sex With Child Sentenced: Feds A Maryland man who crossed state lines to have sex with someone he believed was under the age of 12 in West Virginia will spend more than a decade behind bars, federal authorities announced. Gaithersburg resident Holden Borten, 25, was sentenced to 135 months in prison for traveling for sex with a minor after he took the trek from Montgomery County into Berkeley County, where he was met by police. According to court documents, Borten targeted what he believed to be his victim through social media, though when he traveled into West Virginia in December 2022, he was instead arrested by respon…

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by Zak Failla
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Max Sentence For Forestville Man Convicted Of Killing 53-Year-Old Man: State's Attorney Max Sentence For Forestville Man Convicted Of Killing 53-Year-Old Man: State's Attorney
Max Sentence For Forestville Man Convicted Of Killing 53-Year-Old Man: State's Attorney A man from Prince George's County with a lengthy criminal history is heading back to prison for several decades for the murder of a 53-year-old man in the summer of 2022, the St. Mary's County State's Attorney announced late on Wednesday afternoon. Forestville resident Malcolm Carl Young, 47, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, with 30 years of active incarceration, after being convicted convicted by a jury following the shooting death of Great Mills resident Anthony Charles Wright in August 2022. Specifically, he was convicted of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commi…

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Metro Bus Murder: DC Man Convicted Of Maryland Killing Caught On Video Metro Bus Murder: DC Man Convicted Of Maryland Killing Caught On Video
Metro Bus Murder: DC Man Convicted Of Maryland Killing Caught On Video A 35-year-old Washington DC man has been convicted of killing a 29-year-old man on a transit bus in Maryland last year, authorities said. Tyrone Curtis was found guilty by a jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court of first-degree murder for the April 5, 2023 killing of Amonte Cunningham on Jan. 24, before before the Honorable Jeannie Cho, the State's Attorney's Office said. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 5, 2024. Curtis and Cunningham had been arguing on a Metro Transit bus in Wheaton around 12:25 p.m., officials said. Cunningham got off the bus when it stopped in fr…

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Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds
Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds The 62-year-old Maryland man who paid to have child porn livestreamed from the Philippines and Madagascar has been sentenced after being busted by investigators. Severn native Carey Lee Sackmann has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after admitting to "the coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity in connection to his online sexual exploitation of multiple underage victims overseas," federal officials said. According to his guilty plea, beginning in 2015, Sackmann would join video chats with facilitators overseas who exploited minor children in…

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District Man Who Tried To Kill Roommate In Their Home Heading To The Big House District Man Who Tried To Kill Roommate In Their Home Heading To The Big House
District Man Who Tried To Kill Roommate In Their Home Heading To The Big House Jose Avelino Felipe has to be hoping that his new roommates treat him better than he treated his old one. The District man who violently assaulted his roommate after getting into a fight with her husband will spend years behind bars after being sentenced, the US Attorney's Office announced on Thursday. According to court documents, in December 2021, Avelino Felipe and his wife were living in the same apartment as his victim and her husband when a fight broke out. On Dec. 4, 2021, prosecutors say that Avelino Felipe and her husband got into a physical altercation inside the apartment before…

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Masturbating Man Gets Max Penalty For Trespassing At Maryland College (Again) Masturbating Man Gets Max Penalty For Trespassing At Maryland College (Again)
Masturbating Man Gets Max Penalty For Trespassing At Maryland College (Again) A serial flasher who was caught masturbating by students on a college campus in Maryland will spend years behind bars, authorities announced. Aaron Dunn, 52, pleaded guilty in Wicomico County to charges that include indent exposure and trespassing on school grounds following an incident earlier this year when he was caught enjoying himself too much at Salisbury University. On Tuesday, April 25, prosecutors say that Dunn walked into the third floor of the Academic Commons at the school and began masturbating next to a student at a desk who couldn’t see what was happening. According to the W…

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Accokeek Woman 'Sexually Attracted To Children' Gets Prison Time For Toddler Porn In MD Accokeek Woman 'Sexually Attracted To Children' Gets Prison Time For Toddler Porn In MD
Accokeek Woman 'Sexually Attracted To Children' Gets Prison Time For Toddler Porn In MD Federal officials say that a woman who claimed to be sexually attracted to children will spend years behind bars after being busted with a host of child porn files following an investigation that was launched by a man in Washington, DC. Shemara Shay Mack-Smith, 42, of Accokeek, was sentenced to 108 months in prison, followed by 120 months of supervised release for the distribution of child pornography, federal authorities announced. Mack-Smith set her own downfall in motion in late April 2020, when a concerned citizen who met her at a home in DC alerted the police that she had showed him c…

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Prince George's Duo Convicted Of Sex Trafficking Minors By DC Jury: DOJ Prince George's Duo Convicted Of Sex Trafficking Minors By DC Jury: DOJ
Prince George's Duo Convicted Of Sex Trafficking Minors By DC Jury: DOJ Two Prince George’s County residents were hit with lengthy prison sentences after being convicted by a jury in Washington, DC for their roles in a sex trafficking operation involving teens, federal officials announced. Willis Lewis, 49, of Oxon Hill, and Brittany Jones, 33, of Suitland, will both be spending years behind bars after being found of multime criminal charges for the illegal operation involving two minors. Specifically, Lewis was sentenced to life, while Jones got 14 years for trafficking a 15-year-old and 17-year-old girl between April and May 2019. According to prosecutors, J…

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by Zak Failla
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Maryland Man Sentenced To Max Prison Term For Shooting Victim Seven Times In Broad Daylight Maryland Man Sentenced To Max Prison Term For Shooting Victim Seven Times In Broad Daylight
Maryland Man Sentenced To Max Prison Term For Shooting Victim Seven Times In Broad Daylight A Maryland man received the maximum possible sentence for his role in a brazen midday shooting in. Baltimore in May 2021, the state's attorney announced. Andre Preston was sentenced to 75 years in prison with the first 10 to be served without the possibility of parole for the fatal shooting of Gary Wilson in the Rosemont neighborhood last year. Specifically, Preston was found guilty in April of: Second-degree murder; Use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence; Disqualified person in possession of a regulated firearm. Police responded to calls about gunshots in the 3000 bl…

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Three Men Found Convicted Of Double Homicide In Maryland: State's Attorney Three Men Found Convicted Of Double Homicide In Maryland: State's Attorney
Three Men Found Convicted Of Double Homicide In Maryland: State's Attorney Two people were found guilty on dozens of charges related to a 2019 double homicide in Baltimore and may spend the rest of their life behind bars, authorities say. Kiray Walker and Malik Brooks faced the charges after the murders of Aryanna James and Courtney Richardson on Nov. 14, 2019. Another accomplice, Devon Bynum who was a minor at the time of the killings pleaded guilty to minimal involvement, according to the State's Attorney for Baltimore City. Walker, Brooks, and Bynum reportedly shot the victims shortly before 3 a.m., Nov. 14, 2019, in the 1900 block of McHenry Street. Police arr…

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BF Sentenced For Strangling GF 'To Point Of Seeing Black' During Domestic Assault In Maryland BF Sentenced For Strangling GF 'To Point Of Seeing Black' During Domestic Assault In Maryland
BF Sentenced For Strangling GF 'To Point Of Seeing Black' During Domestic Assault In Maryland The man who assaulted his girlfriend and “strangled her to the point that she was seeing black and was concerned for her life,” in Maryland will spend years in prison, the Frederick County State’s Attorney announced. Frederick resident Jesse Cook, 44, has been sentenced to 25 years with all but 20 suspended to actively serve in the Division of Corrections, State's Attorney Charlie Smith said.  He was also ordered that Cook serve three years of supervised probation upon his release after he was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree assault by a Frederick County jury in Jun…

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Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…

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