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Rapist Dead-Bolted Facebook Date Inside Her Own Maryland Apartment - Now He's Locked Away
A man who preyed on a woman he met through social media will spend decades in prison after raping his would-be date, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday. Silver Spring resident Rome Hill, 32, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison with all but 30 years suspended after persuading his victim to meet him after just two days, then assaulting her at gunpoint in September 2020. At the time Hill reached out to his future victim, she was a stranger to him, prosecutors said. According to court documents, on Sept. 9, 2020, "CC," the victim, and Hill were comple…
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Date From Hell: Maryland Man Robbed By Woman, Friends Hiding In Trunk, Police Say
An online dater in Maryland is wishing he swiped left after being robbed by a group of women in Anne Arundel County. Police say that a man reported a robbery this week that happened over the weekend after he had arranged to meet a woman that he met through a dating app that he planned to have a rendezvous with in the 600 block of Admiral Drive in Annapolis. He got more than he bargained for. According to investigators, the pair met, and the woman drove him to a nearby parking lot to "speak privately," at which point two more women suddenly emerged from the trunk and got into the car …
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Date Goes Wrong For Man Robbed At Gunpoint By Unexpected Visitor In MD: Police
A weekend date took a nasty turn for a Maryland man who was robbed at gunpoint when he only sought some love in Anne Arundel County, police say. Officers from the Anne Arundel County Police Department are investigating a reported robbery in the 100 block of Dunlop Road in Pasadena, when a man got more than he bargained for after using an app to request “a date.” The victim says that his “date” arrived at his home at approximately 6 a.m. on Sunday, June 25. During the visit, police say that the woman went downstairs to get a cup of ice, and when she returned with a Black man with a handgu…
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DNA Links Suspect To Murder Of Woman He Met Online In Prince George's County, Police Say
DNA evidence collected by police investigators in Prince George’s County led to the downfall of a murder suspect who allegedly killed a Baltimore man in Suitland earlier this year. Rickey Redd, 33, of Oxon Hill, is facing multiple murder charges in connection to the February death of 38-year-old Andra Sweeper, who was found dead in an apartment, according to investigators from the Prince George’s County Police Department. At approximately 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, officers were called to an apartment in the 3300 block of Curtis Drive, where there were calls regarding an unresponsive wo…
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Woman Slashed, Sexually Assaulted By Suspect She Met On Dating App: Police
Police in Montgomery County are investigating a reported sexual assault and cutting incident after a woman met up with a suspect she met on a dating app, according to authorities. An alert was issued by the Tacoma Park Police Department on Friday, March 17 advising of a recent incident involving a woman who was assaulted after a date gone wrong in Ward 5. At approximately 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, officers from the department were called to the 7700 block of Maple Avenue, where there was a report of a cutting incident, a spokesperson for the agency said. Upon arrival, officers found …
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'You Have Good Birthing Hips,' Kohberger Allegedly Told PA TikToker On Bizarre Tinder Date
A former Pennsylvania student who claims she went on a Tinder date with accused "Idaho Four" killer Bryan Kohberger opened up about her experience in a series of TikTok videos. The woman, identified as "Hayley," told the New York Post she was a psychology student at Penn State Hazelton when she matched with the suspected killer seven years ago. She said her interactions with Kohberger were "brief", but that he acted a bit strange, inviting himself inside her dorm after their date. "I thought he was just going to drop me off but that was not the case he kind of invited himself inside", Hay…
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Former Virginia Tech Football Player Pleads Not Guilty In Tinder Date's Beating Death: Report
A former Virginia Tech football player pleaded not guilty to killing a man, who he thought was a woman, after meeting in person through an online dating platform Tinder, according to various news reports. Isimemen David Etute, 19, was indicted on a murder charge in the death of Jerry Paul Smith, a 40-year-old Blacksburg restaurant project manager, on May 31, 2021. The two met online and connected in person when Etute when to Smith's apartment for an encounter that included oral sex in April 2021. However, Etute was unsure if Smith was a male or female. Etute then planned a second enco…
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NJ Love Seeker Loses $450,000 To Scammer On Dating App For The Rich
It's heartbreaking to learn that someone you've become enamored with online isn't into you, but it's downright tragic to discover that person just made off with $450,000 of your money. That's right: A con artist collected nearly a half-million dollars in crypto from a Glen Rock, NJ resident who fell for an online romance scam. You could call it missed fortune. The victim met the imposter on Luxy, a dating app for millionaires -- and those looking to meet them -- that boasts of collecting "the most attractive and financially stable of dating applicants." Or, as the founders of the Hon…
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Feds: NJ Man Admits He Ran Guns From Georgia With Online Dating Match
An ex-con from New Jersey most likely didn't list "gun running" among his hobbies when he made an online love connection with a Southern woman. It'll be quite some time before Dylan Ianncelli, 28, of Gloucester County dates again -- either online or off -- after admitting in federal court on Wednesday, March 9, that he and his Georgia peach trafficked nearly a dozen firearms into New Jersey. Ianncelli went down to Georgia after meeting Jessy Hill, who authorities said bought 11 guns from a licensed dealer on Aug. 12, 2021. Hill "falsely indicated during the purchase that she was the actual…
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TikTokers Want Justice For Woman Who Died On Bumble Date
The family of a Connecticut woman who was found dead in her apartment is upset over the way her death was handled is being backed by TikTok users. Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, of Bridgeport, was found dead in her apartment on Sunday, Dec. 12 by Bridgeport police after a date with 37-year-old Matthew LaFountain, whom she met on a dating site. LaFountain was the one who called to report her death, the family said at a news conference on Sunday, Jan. 16. More than a month after Smith-Fields died, her family still doesn't have a cause of death and is frustrated with the way they are being treated …
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