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Love Triangle Ends With Husband Dead, Maryland Man Charged With Murder In DC: Feds Love Triangle Ends With Husband Dead, Maryland Man Charged With Murder In DC: Feds
Love Triangle Ends With Husband Dead, Maryland Man Charged With Murder In DC: Feds The Maryland man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend's husband after he learned of their affair has been indicted on federal charges for a 2022 murder, authorities announced. Keyon Slaughter, 27, was arraigned on Friday on an indictment charging him with the December 2022 murder of Dana Bailey, Jr. after confronting him in the Southeast DC apartment he shared with his wife.  According to court documents, early on Dec. 5, 2022, Slaughter entered Bailey's apartment after the latter learned of his wife's affair with him earlier that year. During that incident, it is alleged that…
Carjacker Avoids Minimum Sentence After Taking Police On Pursuit From DC Into Maryland: Feds Carjacker Avoids Minimum Sentence After Taking Police On Pursuit From DC Into Maryland: Feds
Carjacker Avoids Minimum Sentence After Taking Police On Pursuit From DC Into Maryland: Feds The 19-year-old District resident who took members of the Metropolitan Police Department on a wild ride last year in a carjacked vehicle avoided the max penalty, though he will still spend time behind bars, federal authorities announced. Adam West has been sentenced to less than five years in prison after pleading guilty to the incident last December, despite protestations from prosecutors. In December last year, West pleaded guilty, admitting that he carjacked his victim at a Northeast DC gas station after approaching his victim, patting his waistband, suggesting that he was armed. When t…
Tenacious Detective Cracks Two Virginia Cold Cases In One Shot Tenacious Detective Cracks Two Virginia Cold Cases In One Shot
Tenacious Detective Cracks Two Virginia Cold Cases In One Shot For nearly 40 years, Jacqueline Lard and Amy Baker's killer has remained a mystery. On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, authorities in Virginia announced a break in the cases. Elroy Harrison, 65, was identified as a suspect in both cases thanks to the relentless work of Stafford County Sheriff's Detective D.K. Wood, Sheriff David Decatur said. Jacqueline Lard was killed in 1986, and Amy Baker in 1989. Both were residents of Stafford, but Baker was returning from visiting family in Falls Church when she went missing. On March 4, Harrison was indicted by a Stafford County Grand Jury for the fir…
Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds
Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds A District man with a checkered criminal past is facing decades behind bars after admitting to federal gun and drug charges, authorities announced. Clarence Faulkner, 42, a convicted felon, pleaded guilty in Washington, DC to unlawful possession of a short-barreled rifle that was found in his car along with PCP and cocaine, according to federal prosecutors. In November last year, officers from the Metropolitan Police Department were on patrol in the 300 block of 61st Street NE when they spotted an unoccupied sedan parked on the side of the street running and unattended. After advising the …
Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland
Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland A purported gang member in Virginia has been convicted of a violent drive-by shooting in April last year in Prince William County, the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney announced. Sean Hughes, Jr., a member of the Bloods, has been found guilty of shooting into a Triangle home in the 3500 block of Wharf Lane that sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.  According to prosecutors, on April 19, 2023, Hughes and an underaged co-conspirator opened fire at the Triangle home, striking a 58-year-old woman inside multiple times, while a detective and another bystander were nearly…
Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds
Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds A US Navy service member from Virginia will spend years in prison and will register as a sex offender for targeting an underage girl through social media in Maryland, federal authorities announced. Virginia Beach resident Delvon Lashawn Redd, 30, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to abusive sexual contact with a minor, according to a judge on Wednesday, Feb. 7. According to his guilty plea, between April 17 and May 28, 2022, Redd, a serviceman staying at the Naval Lodge Hotel at the US Naval Air Station Patuxent Riv…
Former Swim Instructor In VA Preyed On Prepubescent Victims Online: Feds Former Swim Instructor In VA Preyed On Prepubescent Victims Online: Feds
Former Swim Instructor In VA Preyed On Prepubescent Victims Online: Feds Mark Black, the former board president of the Arlington Aquatic Club who found himself on the wrong side of the law, has admitted to conspiring to sexually exploit several children in Virginia, federal authorities announced. Black, 50, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to produce child pornography and coercion and enticement for his role in targeting children to exploit with others through the Internet. According to court documents, between January 2018 and October 2021, the Arlington resident was a member of two online groups dedicated to exploiting children.  "The go…
Gunman Indicted For Murder Of DC Man Near Nationals Park, Navy Yard Metro Station: Feds Gunman Indicted For Murder Of DC Man Near Nationals Park, Navy Yard Metro Station: Feds
Gunman Indicted For Murder Of DC Man Near Nationals Park, Navy Yard Metro Station: Feds Tyriq Williams is facing federal charges for his alleged role in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Terry Clark in Southeast DC earlier this year. An indictment filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia charges the 32-year-old Northwest DC resident with first-degree murder while armed for the fatal shooting of Clark outside the entrance to the Navy Yard Metro Station not far from Nationals Park, federal authorities announced on Wedneseday. According to the indictment, Williams and a woman exited a Green Line Metro train at the station on Saturday, Jan. 7 in the 1200 block of Ha…
DC Man Sentenced For Killing Mom Whose Body Remains Missing DC Man Sentenced For Killing Mom Whose Body Remains Missing
DC Man Sentenced For Killing Mom Whose Body Remains Missing Thirteen years after Unique Harris went missing from her home in Southeast DC while her kids slept, her family has gotten some measure justice. Federal authorities announced that District resident Isaac Moye, 46, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of Harris - whose body has never been found - in October 2010. A mother of two, Harris hosted a sleepover for her two young children and their 9-year-old cousin on Oct. 9, 2010 at their DC home, putting them to bed at approximately 9:30 p.m. that night. Prosecutors say that shortly before 10:40 p.m., the 46-year-old Moye, who…
Predatory Pastor Abused Power To Sexually Abuse Girl On Church Floor In Area: Prosecutors Predatory Pastor Abused Power To Sexually Abuse Girl On Church Floor In Area: Prosecutors
Predatory Pastor Abused Power To Sexually Abuse Girl On Church Floor In Area: Prosecutors A Maryland pastor who acted in bad faith is facing decades in prison after being convicted of raping a member of his church, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office announced. Erick Odir Vidal-Fuentes was found guilty of rape and other sexual offenses at trial this week for an incident that took place in September 2020 at the Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Viene in Takoma Park. His victim was a parishioner. Prosecutors said that the 39-year-old Hyattsville resident targeted his victim when she injured her ankle and he promised her mother that he would help her by massaging the injury w…
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs Paterson rapper Fetty Wap caught something of a break on Wednesday. A federal judge sentenced the platinum-selling rapper – whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II – to six years in federal prison on May 24 for his role in a drug-trafficking ring that flooded part of New Jersey and Long Island with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Maxwell had been charged with conspiring to transport more than 100 kilos of the drugs there from the West Coast. Rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial, he took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in U.S. Eastern District Court …
'Case Of Mistaken Identity' Hagerstown Man Sentenced After Killing Wrong Man In 2013 Robbery 'Case Of Mistaken Identity' Hagerstown Man Sentenced After Killing Wrong Man In 2013 Robbery
'Case Of Mistaken Identity' Hagerstown Man Sentenced After Killing Wrong Man In 2013 Robbery A Hagerstown man has been sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years after being convicted of a 2013 murder. Vaughn Darvel Bellamy, 32, was sentenced for the crime on Tuesday, April 11, according to the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office. Bellamy is one of three men who were convicted of the murder of Alexander Buie in late 2013. The first of the three men to get sentenced was Bryan Byrd, who received life in prison in October 2022. Around 11 p.m. on Nov. 6, 2013, Bellamy and the other two men broke into a recovery home on Grenoble Drive in Rockville to attempt a robbery of one of…
District Man Heading To Prison For Stalking, Stabbing Outside Union Station District Man Heading To Prison For Stalking, Stabbing Outside Union Station
District Man Heading To Prison For Stalking, Stabbing Outside Union Station Federal officials announced that a District man will spend years in prison after stabbing a person outside Union Station in Washington, DC and stalking him into the building last summer. Julius Yancey, 37, was sentenced on Wednesday, March 22, to 72 months in prison for a violent assault in June last year when he unexpectedly attacked his victim outside the station in broad daylight. Prosecutors said that at approximately 2:20 p.m. on June 30, 2022, Yancey approached his victim outside the station while he was looking at his phone and stabbed him three times with a knife - once in the arm …
'Prophet Of Doom' Pleads Guilty To Mass NYC Subway Shooting 'Prophet Of Doom' Pleads Guilty To Mass NYC Subway Shooting
'Prophet Of Doom' Pleads Guilty To Mass NYC Subway Shooting UPDATE: An assailant who opened fire on a packed New York City subway train last year, wounding 10 commuters and igniting underground terror, admitted on Tuesday, Jan. 3 that he intended to cause mass harm. No one was killed in the horrific attack by Frank James, 63, which left victims strewn across a smoky 36th Street platform in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn at the height of the April 12 morning rush. Rather than risk the consequences of a guilty verdict at a jury trial, James took a deal from prosecutors. The heavyset and balding domestic terrorist -- who'd dubbed himself the…
Cash-For-Kids Ex-Judges Fined $200 Million In Pennsylvania: AP Cash-For-Kids Ex-Judges Fined $200 Million In Pennsylvania: AP
Cash-For-Kids Ex-Judges Fined $200 Million In Pennsylvania: AP A Harrisburg, PA judge has ordered two former judges to pay $200 million to the families of children sent to prison as part of their kickback scheme, the Associated Press reports.   Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both former judges in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, were found guilty in 2009 for charges in connection with a scheme that involved them using their positions to shutter county-run juvenile detention center, siphoning children from the juvenile court to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care, according to court records.  Childr…
Murder Suspect Gets Life In Prison For Murder, Robbery At Area Hotel: State's Attorney Murder Suspect Gets Life In Prison For Murder, Robbery At Area Hotel: State's Attorney
Murder Suspect Gets Life In Prison For Murder, Robbery At Area Hotel: State's Attorney A 33-year-old Maryland man with a lengthy criminal history will likely never be free again after being sentenced for murdering his victim during an armed robbery at a Charles County hotel, the state's attorney announced. Charles County Circuit Court Judge William Greer, Jr. sentenced Marc Carlyle McLaughlin to life in prison, plus 30 years for the first-degree felony murder of Kenneth Brawner, attempted armed robberies, and related charges following his conviction in May. On Sept. 21, 2020, Tony Covington, the State’s Attorney for Charles County said that officers responded to the Master S…
Fourth Man Sentenced For Movie-Like Kidnapping, Robbery Scheme At Maryland Casino, DC Apartment Fourth Man Sentenced For Movie-Like Kidnapping, Robbery Scheme At Maryland Casino, DC Apartment
Fourth Man Sentenced For Movie-Like Kidnapping, Robbery Scheme At Maryland Casino, DC Apartment The fourth of five suspects implicated in an elaborate kidnapping and robbery scheme that started at a Maryland hotel has been sentenced to federal prison time, authorities announced. Washington, DC resident Anthony Erik Hebron - also known as “Pain,” 29, has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. As part of his guilty plea in February 2021, Hebron and co-conspirators Darius “Mup” Young, 30, Christopher Young, 27, Lance Perkins, 28, and Tray Sherman, age 27, all of DC, admitted to working on a scheme to kidn…
Former Police Officer In Virginia Ordered To Serve Home Detention For Death Of Infant Daughter Former Police Officer In Virginia Ordered To Serve Home Detention For Death Of Infant Daughter
Former Police Officer In Virginia Ordered To Serve Home Detention For Death Of Infant Daughter A former police officer in Virginia could avoid prison time after being sentenced for his role in the death of his 6-month-old daughter in Maryland in 2017. Monrovia resident Jason Michael Colley, 42, a former 10-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police Department, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault in connection to the death of his infant daughter Harper on Oct. 31, 2017, the state’s attorney for Frederick County announced. Colley entered an Alford plea in Frederick County Circuit Court on Thursday, Aug. 4. An Alford plea “is a type of guilty plea in which a defendant…
US Marshals In Virginia Nab 2 Teen Suspects In Mass Philly Shooting: DA US Marshals In Virginia Nab 2 Teen Suspects In Mass Philly Shooting: DA
US Marshals In Virginia Nab 2 Teen Suspects In Mass Philly Shooting: DA Two teenage suspects in the mass casualty shooting in Philadelphia last weekend were arrested Thursday, June 9 by members of the US Marshals Service in Norfolk, Virginia, authorities said. Quadir Dukes-Hill, 18, of Drexel Hill, and Nahjee Whittington, 18, of Philadelphia, were charged with murder, among other offenses, in Saturday's shooting on South Street, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said at an afternoon news conference. DA Krasner Provides Second Update on Investigation of South Street Mass Shooting Posted by Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office on Thursday, June…