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Man Sentenced To Double The Top Maryland Sentencing Guideline For Motel Rape: State's Attorney
The Maryland man who admitted to a motel rape earlier this year in Harford County, was handed a heavy prison term that exceeds the state's sentencing guidelines, prosecutors announced. In February, Whiteford resident Earl Samuel Jones, 44, pleaded guilty to the first-degree rape of a 36-year-old woman at a Red Roof Inn in Aberdeen in September 2022. According to the state's attorney's office, on Sept. 12, 2022, police were called to the motel when a woman reported being asleep in a room when she was awoken by a naked man she did not know after her boyfriend left the door open to use t…
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Shooter Who Killed Victim Holding GFs Hand At MD Motel Gets Life In Prison
The final suspect implicated in a motel murder in Montgomery County will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced for the violent assault in front of his girlfriend, the state’s attorney’s office announced. Sergey Danshin, 35, of Rockville, was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years, after being convicted in January of first-degree murder and related weapons charges for his role in the death of 39-year-old Javier Gonzalez-Mena last summer. Javier Gonzalez-MenaMontgomery County State's Attorney Prosecutors say that on June 22, 2022, Danshin and Virginia resident M…
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Maryland Motel Murder Nets 2 Arrests: Police
Two men have been arrested after a motel killing in Rockville, authorities say. Micah Clemons, 32, and Sergey Danshin, 34, knocked on the door of Javier Gonzalez-Mena's room to lure him outside before they fatally shot him at the Red Roof Inn on the 16000 block of Shady Grove Road around 11:30 p.m., Thursday, June 23, according to Montgomery County Police. Officers located Gonzalez-Mena suffering from a gunshot wound upon arrival. He succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Investigation pointed to both Clemons and Danshin as the suspects, who were taken into custody without inci…
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Police ID Victim In Stafford Motel Murder
Authorities have identified the man killed at a Red Roof Inn in Stafford County over the weekend. Deputies said Leo Franklin, 47, of Maryland, died at the Warrenton Road motel in Stafford just after 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 19. George Pearson III, 44, of Stafford, reportedly shot him and then fled the scene in a silver Toyota Tacoma, still armed with the handgun, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said. A Crisis Negotiation Team spoke with Pearson on FaceTime in an attempt to get him to turn himself in. He told them he wouldn't be taken alive, deputies said. However, when offic…
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FaceTime Fugitive: Motel Murder Suspect Surrenders During I-95 Pursuit
Authorities got a murder suspect to surrender over FaceTime as he led a police pursuit on Interstate 95 in Virginia, they said. George Pearson III, 44, of Stafford, shot the victim in his chest at a Red Roof Inn on Warrenton Road around 8:15 a.m. June 19, then fled the scene in a silver Toyota Tacoma, still armed with a handgun, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said. Once able to identify the suspect, authorities called him on FaceTime and added a member of the Crisis Negotiation Team joined to the call. While attempting to negotiate a peaceful surrender, Pearson indicated he …
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Drunk Driver Leads 'Low Speed' Police Pursuit In Stafford County: Sheriff's Office
A Virginia man is being held without bail after he was arrested for trying to evade police officers while driving under the influence, authorities said. Adwain Sharrier, 38, of Stafford, was charged with a DUI after leading deputies on a "low speed pursuit" in North Stafford, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook. A deputy responded to a report of a suspicious person at the Red Roof Inn, located at 153 Garrisonville Road, around 2:37 a.m. on Wednesday, May 11, the office reports. A man, later identified as Sharrier, was found slumped over in the back of a car that was pa…
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US Marshals Nab Baltimore Gunman In New Jersey: Police
Members of the US Marshals Service arrested a Maryland man wanted in a Baltimore shooting in New Jersey, authorities said. Luel F. Mekonnen, 22, of Silver Spring, was located on Friday, March 18 at the Red Roof Inn in Westampton, NJ, a spokesman for the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office said. Officers responded to a local hospital for reports that someone was brought there after being shot in the 1300 block of Colbury Road around 5 a.m. on Thursday, March 17, police said. Police were able to identify Mekonnen as a suspect and arrested him on Monday. Mekonnen has been charged as a fugit…
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Maryland Man Gets 28 Years In Prison For 2020 Shooting
A Baltimore judge has issued the maximum sentence to a man for shooting another man in 2020, according to the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office. Edward Foster was sentenced to 28 years in prison, with the first five years to be served without the possibility of parole, on Tuesday, March 8. Foster was convicted on several charges including second degree assault, illegal possession of a regulated firearm and reckless endangerment stemming from a shooting on April 19, 2020. On that day Baltimore Police responded to the 5200 block of Cedgate Road for a reported shooting. When they …
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Trespasser Laying In Rockville Red Roof Inn Parking Lot Run Over By Car: Police
A trespasser in a Red Roof Inn parking lot was in serious condition after being run over by a vehicle earlier this month, authorities in Montgomery County said. Rockville were called to the motel on Shady Grove Road on reports of a trespassing when they got a second call saying the suspect had been struck by a car in the lot around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 3, county police said. There, officers found the man lying in the parking lot with trauma to his body. The victim was transported to an area hospital in serious condition. Investigation has determined that for unknown reasons the pedestrian lai…
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