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Man Who Strangled Stepson, Had Friends Pray Over Him In Maryland Learns Fate In Court
It didn't take long for a jury to convict George Christopher Floyd of the murder of 18-year-old Triston Treshaun Irvin in Charles County, now he's set to spend decades behind bars, authorities announced on Friday. The man who painted an olive oil cross on his stepson's forehead after violently choking him during an assault in Waldorf was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.. It took the jury less than three hours of deliberation to convict Floyd following a four-day trial. The investigation into Irvin's death inside a Waldorf residence found tha…
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Second Trial Seals Fate: Man Convicted Of Sexual Assault At Montgomery County Graduation Party
A 27-year-old man who marred the college graduation celebration at a friend's home in Germantown has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a second trial, authorities announced on Thursday. Clarksburg resident Nelson Jones was found guilty by a jury of third-degree sex offense this week and will now face up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced next month, according to the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office. In May 2021, prosecutors say that the graduation celebration continued into the early morning hours, and a woman at the party went to a bedroom alone to slee…
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DA Recommends Menendez Brothers Be Resentenced After Spending Decades In Prison (
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has recommended brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who spent their childhoods in New Jersey and New York, be resentenced after spending decades in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The brothers, now in their 50s, should be freed and placed on parole for the murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in August 1989, Gascón said at a news conference Thursday, Oct. 24, that comes amid worldwide viewership of a series on their story on Netflix. The case now moves forward to a Los A…
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Arraignment Held For Maryland Man Charged In Connection To September 2023 Murder In DC
Four men charged in connection to a mass shooting that left one dead and five others injured inside a Southwest DC apartment more than a year ago, federal authorities announced. Shortly after 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2023, Assistant Metropolitan Police Chief Carlos Heraud said that officers rushed to the 200 block of M Street SW when they heard gunshots ring out. Upon arrival, two men were found suffering from gunshot wounds, one of whom - later identified as Matthew Miller, 32 - was pronounced dead at the scene and another who suffered non-life-threatening injuries. While still inv…
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Sexual Abuser Who Targeted Three Minors In Same Maryland Household Convicted: State's Attorney
A 25-year-old man who turned himself in to the Charles County Sheriff's Office last year has been convicted by a jury at trial of sexually abusing several children. Katravien Tyrieus Vercher will face 115 years in prison for preying on three minors under the age of 13 over the course of three years after moving into a family's Waldorf home, officials say. In March 2023, members of the Charles County Sheriff's Office were called to that home, where there was a report of child sexual abuse from Vercher's victims' mother. Investigators say that Vercher moved in in 2020, and began targeting hi…
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Arsonist Convicted Of Killing Mother, Toddler In Maryland Townhome Over Housing Dispute
The Maryland man who burned down a home that resulted in the death of his girlfriend and her toddler daughter faces up to 140 years in prison, the Charles County State's Attorney's Office announced. Vincent Anthony Fisher, II, 49, has been convicted following a near two-week trial for his role in a fatal incident in March 2022 that resulted in the deaths of Rashawn Cline and Dashawn Cline. First responders in Charles County were called on March 31, 2022, to a townhome in Waldorf that was fully engulfed in flames with Fisher outside suffering from injuries that took place from an assault tha…
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Man Convicted Of Parking Lot Shooting In Silver Spring; Brother Accused Of Intimidating Witness
A man whose brother attempted to intimidate a witness following a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Maryland elementary school is facing life in prison in connection to the death of 21-year-old Martin Nolan in Montgomery County. Silver Spring resident Keith Delcid-Palacios was found guilty on murder and other offenses, and his brother was charged for allegedly attempting to intimidate a witness during an incident that played out in January 2021, authorities announced this week. According to prosecutors, on Jan. 14, 2021, Nolan was sitting in the driver's seat of his parked vehicle with…
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Driver Who Dragged Police Officer During Maryland Traffic Stop Gets Max Prison Sentence
The man who seriously injured a Baltimore Police officer he dragged for several blocks while he was hanging on to his vehicle was handed a harsh sentence, authorities announced on Wednesday. Joseph Daniel Black, who dragged Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg during a vehicle stop in 2022 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentenced allowed by law. Black was convicted of second-degree assault at a re-trial in June following a hung jury in December 2023 at his initial trial. According to prosecutors, shortly after 8 p.m. on June 28, 2022, Ramberg conducted a traffic stop in the 5100 blo…
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Murder Suspect Stabbed Driver 59 Times Over Payment Disagreement In Maryland: State's Attorney
A 22-year-old White Plains man charged with murder after deputies found a person stabbed to death in the trunk of his car in Charles County has been convicted following a 10-day trial. Marvin Ernesto Funez-Martinez was arrested in October 2023 in connection to the death of driver Marco Alexander Pulido-Castro after the two got into a deadly dispute over payment for the ride. Patrol officers were called shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023 to the 4100 block of Gateway Boulevard, where there was a report of a person armed with a weapon, and upon arrival, a witness directed t…
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Man Accused Of 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Convicted
Justice has been served for a Maryland family more than four decades after Vickie Lynn Belk was abducted and murdered in Maryland. Last year, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced that District resident Andre Taylor was arrested on charges that included rape and murder in connection to Belk's death, who was found in Bryans Road on Metropolitan Church Road after she was killed 45 years ago. Vickie Lynn BelkCharles County Sheriff On Friday, July 19, the state's attorney's office announced that Taylor was convicted by a jury after just two hours of deliberation following …
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'Evil Perpetrator' Who Shot Sheriff's Deputy Faces Life In Prison For Maryland Pursuit
The man who shot a sheriff's deputy following a lengthy high-speed chase in Maryland has been convicted by a jury following a week-long trial, the Calvert County State's Attorney announced. Greenbelt resident Brandon Alexander Turner, 22, who was described as an "evil perpetrator" by Sheriff Ricky Cox, was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder in connection to the shooting of Master Deputy James Flynt in December 2022. The incident began at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022 when sheriff's deputies conducted a traffic stop in the area of Yellow Bank Road in Dun…
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