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Cold Case Maryland Predator Tried To Rig The Justice System — His Plan Backfired Spectacularly
A DC-area rapist whose plan to bully witnesses, fake testimony, and cover his tracks blew up in spectacular fashion will spend nearly a decade in federal prison, prosecutors announced.
Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 35, of Washington, DC, and Prince George’s County, was sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 25, to nine years in prison for obstruction of justice and subornation of perjury, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Spriggs was indicted in 2023 for a July 2014 cold case sexual assault after detectives with MPD’s Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit used DNA evidence to tie him to two rapes — one at a D…
Maryland ‘Clown’ Who Scammed 80-Year-Old Virginia Woman Out Of $26K Busted In Sting: Sheriff
An 80-year-old Virginia woman was conned out of more than $26,000 by crooks posing as US Treasury agents — until detectives set a trap that ended with a Maryland man in cuffs, officials said.
The suspect, James Smith, 30, of Gaithersburg, was arrested after showing up to grab another $10,000 in cash from the victim, the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies were waiting.
Smith had already squeezed $26,000 from the woman over several days, investigators said.
He and others pretended to be Treasury agents, threatening the woman with “criminal charges” unless she handed…
