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Zak Failla

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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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NFL Tickets Among 'Items Of Value' Former WMATA Official Enjoyed During $1.3M Scheme: Feds Federal officials say that a 61-year-old man will spend more than a year in prison for manipulating the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in a $1.3 million scheme involving a New Jersey-based company. Arlington native Scottie Borders has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for helping carry out a scheme where he and others manipulated the agency into favoring a particular company that was paid more than a million dollars for items and services over the course of nearly a decade. According to court documents, payments were made to a company in Millville, NJ, which pro…

06/01/2023

Business

Park Outside: Thousands Of Jaguar Electric Vehicles Being Recalled Due To Fire Risk A mass recall of select Jaguar vehicles has been announced due to the risk of high-voltage batteries possibly catching fire unexpectedly. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that more than 6,000 Jaguar I-PACE vehicles produced between 2019 and 2023 are subject to the recall, while advising owners to park outdoors as a precaution. It is the latest recall of an electric vehicle due to batteries that could go up in flames across multiple automakers, joining similar incidents involving vehicles from General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and Volkswagen. Th…

06/01/2023

Police & Fire

Shooter In Custody After Gunning Down Man Near Baltimore County Shopping Plaza One month later, a suspect has been apprehended in connection to the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old Cockeysville man. On Thursday, June 1, the Baltimore County Police Department announced that Larry Edwards, 42, has been arrested for his alleged role in shooting Earl Bodkin, Jr. last month Bodkin, a Baltimore native, was identified by police as the victim who was found shot to death shortly before 5 a.m. on Sunday, April 30 at the intersection of Cranbrook Road and Halesworth Road in Cockeysville, according to police. The body was found near the intersection of Cranbrook and Hale…

06/01/2023

News

Tens Of Thousands Of Residents, Businesses Without Power In Annapolis Due To Outages Tens of thousands in Maryland remain without power on Thursday afternoon after a reported transformer explosion in Anne Arundel County. As of 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 1, Baltimore Gas and Electric were reporting 175 active outages that were impacting more than 34,000 of the company's 1.33 million customers. The majority of the outages were reported in Anne Arundel on Thursday afternoon, due to an issue in Annapolis. There is an extensive Citywide power outage. We are working with BGE to identify the impacts and restoration times. We have received reports that all traffic lights…

06/01/2023

News

Drug Dealer Who Sold Deadly Dose To Teen Soldier Being Held Behind Bars In DC The DC drug dealer who sold a lethal dose of fentanyl to a private in the US Army is in custody after being busted with more than 33 pounds of marijuana at an area airport as he returned home. Jaron Johnson, 22, was detained this week pending his upcoming trial for the drug distribution case that led to the death of an 18-year-old soldier last year, federal authorities announced. Court documents state that in May last year, Johnson distributed what he knew to contain fentanyl to the US Army private, which killed him within hours. Officials say that the cause of death was determined to be …

06/01/2023

Police & Fire

Man Caught With 'Child Sexual Abuse Material' In Frederick Facing Serious Charges: Sheriff A 42-year-old man is facing nearly two dozen charges for allegedly distributing and collecting child pornography in Frederick County, the sheriff’s office announced. Frederick resident Joel Christensen was arrested in the 6800 block of Running Springs Court this week after investigators were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding illicit materials that were being shared by a person in the area. In January, detectives assigned to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit launched an investigation into Christens…

06/01/2023

News

Carjackers Caught During Violent Week Of Crime In Prince George's County Two teenagers are among five facing charges for a string of carjackings throughout the DMV region during a recent rash of violent robberies, according to the Prince George’s County Police Department. On Wednesday, May 31, the department announced that in the past week, investigators from the Carjacking Interdiction Unit (CIU) have busted three adults and two minors following a spate of crime in the region. On Saturday, May 20, an investigation was launched into a carjacking in the 1400 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill, and two days later, the stolen vehicle was spotted in the 800 block…

06/01/2023

Obituaries

Family Vows To Get Justice For Beloved Mother Killed In Multi-Vehicle Crash In Mechanicsville Two cars overturned in a multi-vehicle crash in St. Mary’s County that left a woman dead on Wednesday afternoon and a family grieving. The deadly scene played out shortly before 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31, when Michael Anthony Carlucci, 48, of Waldorf, was driving his 2020 Corvette near the intersection of Mt. Zion Church Road and Church Road in Mechanicsville setting off a three-car crash involving Lusby resident Jaleisa Wilcox. According to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the crash scene on Wednesday afternoon, where they found the three invol…

06/01/2023

News

Alleged DUI Driver Kills Baltimore Woman In Head-On Crash: State Police One person was killed in an early-morning head-on crash in Anne Arundel County with an allegedly impaired driver, state police say. Maryland State Police have launched an investigation into a fatal two-vehicle crash between two drivers from Baltimore, one of whom was killed at approximately 2:45 a.m on Thursday, June 1. According to investigators, Brittany Sherlock, 33, was driving a Lincoln MKC north in the southbound lanes of Maryland Route 295 near Arundel Mills Boulevard when she struck a Hyundai being driven by 62-year-old Marien Haider in Hanover. Police say that Haider was pronounc…

06/01/2023

Police & Fire

Six Suspects In Custody In Connection To Body Found in Woods Behind MD Apartment Complex Six suspects have been arrested in connection to the November killing of 20-year-old Edvin Moises Agustin Leon in Montgomery County last year. On Wednesday, May 31, the Montgomery County Department of Police announced that they have identified and apprehended six men who were implicated in the murder of Leon in Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park. Those charged: Jonathan Edwardo Videz, 28, of Montgomery Village with: First-degree murder; Conspiracy to commit murder; First-degree assault; Use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; "Several other charges." Edwin Armando Sa…

05/31/2023

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