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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

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Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In Pasadena Officials say that a 21-year-old Pasadena man with peculiar sexual proclivities will spend years behind bars for collecting and discussing child porn depicting toddlers getting sexually abused. Raymond Martin Shamer III was sentenced to 50 months in prison, followed by 45 years of supervised release for the possession and distribution of child pornography over the course of several months while he was still a teenager. Shamer admitted that between July 2019 and late June 2020, he took to the Internet to talk about, distribute, and collect child porn, some of which showed adults sexually abu…

05/30/2023

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Man Randomly Going Door To Door With Assault Rifle In Germantown Facing Charges: Police The man who put a scare into a Montgomery County neighborhood when he went door to door while carrying an assault rifle last month has been hit with multiple weapon offenses, authorities announced on Tuesday. Police say that Trevor Copeland, 30, of Silver Spring, has been arrested and charged following an incident where he was caught walking around Germantown while openly carrying an assault rifle, causing concern for some area residents. Montgomery County Department of Police personnel received a report late last month regarding a man - later identified as Copeland - walking around an apar…

05/30/2023

Police & Fire

Sword-Wielding Suspect Accused Of Killing District Heights Man In Area Apartment, Police Say Police say that a man who was caught red-handed in the lobby of a Maryland apartment building while brandishing a sword is facing multiple murder charges for allegedly killing someone who lived in the same District Heights complex. Aaron Bynum, 33, has been charged with first-degree and second-degree murder for his alleged role in the death of 63-year-old neighbor Anthony Cunningham over the holiday weekend. Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 26, members of the Prince George’s County Police Department were called to an apartment in the 2100 block of Brooks Drive to investigate a report…

05/29/2023

Police & Fire

Too Hot To Handle: Several Boats Catch Fire At Columbia Island Marina Overnight Questions are being raised after several boats went up in flames at the Columbia Island Marina overnight. The holiday weekend got off to a fiery start for several boat owners when fires were reported at approximately 1 a.m. on Monday, May 29, according to DC Fire and EMS personnel who were called to the marina that sits in the Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Grove. Box Alarm Columbia Island Marina. Several vessels on fire. #DCsBravest — DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) May 28, 2023 The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the agency. Update Columbia Island Marina. 3 vessels well…

05/29/2023

Police & Fire

Fishing Trip Turns To Rescue Mission For Fire Fighting Family In Cecil County What was supposed to be a holiday fishing trip for a group of Good Samaritans in Maryland took a strange turn for a bunch of heroes who jumped into action and may have saved a Cecil County business from burning to the ground. The Maryland State Fire Marshal says that disaster was averted at the Bakset Case Crab in Conowingo early on Monday morning when a family spotted smoke and flames coming from a shed outside the business. The situation played out shortly before 5:45 a.m. on Monday, May 29 on Conoqingo Road. According to officials, a family was en route to go fishing when they spotted…

05/29/2023

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Third Person Dies After Quadruple Shooting In Woodbridge Home: Police (UPDATED) The Prince William County Police Department has identified the three men who killed in what they say was a targeted shooting during a gathering in Woodbridge over the weekend. Edwin Geovanny Salmon, 37; Luis Alonzo Salgado-Rivas, 41; and Kevin Josue Vallecillo Mendoza, 23, were killed in the 2:30 p.m. incident on Friday, May 26 on the 14700 block of Birchdale Avenue in Woodbridge, county police announced Monday, May 29. Two of the victims died that day while a third died hours later at a local hospital. A fourth man was wounded. The investigation found that one of the party-…

05/29/2023

Police & Fire

Police ID Suitland Teen Gunned Down In Prince George's County Over Memorial Day Weekend New details have been released by the Prince George's County Police Department as detectives continue investigating the murder of a teen over the holiday weekend. Police have identified Suitland resident Kaden Askew, 18, as the victim of a late-night shooting on Sunday, May 28. According to officials, shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunday night, officers from the Maryland-National Capital Park Police were called to the 6100 block of Summerhill Road in Camp Springs to investigate a report of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers were met by Askew outside of a building suffering from a gunsho…

05/29/2023

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Cellmate Under Investigation For Homicide At Maryland Prison: State Police An investigation has been launched after an inmate was found dead in the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. Maryland State Police issued an alert on Sunday, May, 28, advising that Nicholas Joseph Delfosse, 27, a state prison inmate serving time for a burglary, was found dead inside the facility. Police say that an inmate has been identified as a suspect. He’s being held in a separate part of the prison and possible charges are pending. According to state police, on Saturday, May 27, investigators were notified about an inmate’s death inside the facility, and upon arrival found De…

05/28/2023

Police & Fire

Two Dead, Two Hospitalized In Quadruple Prince William County Shooting: Police New details have been released after two men were killed and two others hospitalized in Prince William County on Friday afternoon to kick off the holiday weekend. Shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Friday, May 26, officers were called to a home in the 14700 block of Birchdale Avenue in Woodbridge to investigate a quadruple shooting that left four victims with gunshot wounds. According to police, the shooting is now being investigated as a double homicide after two of the victims involved in the shooting died from their injuries. The initial investigation determined that a group of people were i…

05/26/2023

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Separate Juries Convict Man For Murder, Assault During Stabbing Spree In Rockville: Prosecutors A man with a name familiar to fans of the Baltimore-based “The Wire” may spend decades behind bars following a trial for separate stabbing attacks in Montgomery County. Two separate juries convicted Scorpio Alexander Stanfield, 32, who has an unknown address, of second-degree murder and first-degree assault for two stabbing incidents in Rockville, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney announced on Friday, May 26. Officials say that on Monday, May 22, a jury convicted Stanfield for the assault of Alhajie Keita, 46, who was stabbed, but ultimately survived. Days later, on Thursday, May 25…

05/26/2023

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