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Serial Arsonist Telling Tall Tales Admits To Setting Montgomery County Fires: State's Attorney Serial Arsonist Telling Tall Tales Admits To Setting Montgomery County Fires: State's Attorney
Serial Arsonist Telling Tall Tales Admits To Setting Montgomery County Fires: State's Attorney A firebug responsible for a series of arson incidents in Montgomery County has copped to the crime and faces up to 80 years in prison, according to the state's attorney's office. Fernando Herrera-Rivera, 24, pleaded guilty this week to four counts of second-degree arson in connection to multiple incidents reported in September 2023. Specifically, Herrera-Rivera admitted to lighting fires involving:  A vehicle along Russell Avenue; A Gaithersburg Police Department building on Fulks Corner; A beer and wine store in the 400 block of South Frederick Avenue; A market in the 400 block…

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Naked, Covered In Blood: Virginia Navy Corpsman Fesses Up To DC Businessman's Slaying Naked, Covered In Blood: Virginia Navy Corpsman Fesses Up To DC Businessman's Slaying
Naked, Covered In Blood: Virginia Navy Corpsman Fesses Up To DC Businessman's Slaying A Virginia man who was found naked and covered in blood after dragging his victim’s dead body out of his own Washington, DC apartment in 2019 has admitted to his crime, authorities said.  Collin Potter, 30, of Quantico, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed for the butchering of Vongell Lugo on Jan. 6, 2019, in which Potter stabbed his victim 42 times, federal officials said. The incident began at approximately 4 a.m. when the two were together in Lugo’s Garfield House apartment on Wisconsin Avenue, police said. Potter — who according to NBC Washington and the Navy Ti…

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