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16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Fairfax County: Police
A teenager responsible for a double shooting in Northern Virginia surrendered this week, days after two men were hospitalized, police say. Officers from the Fairfax County Police Department were called around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, to the 7700 block of Richmond Highway in Hybla Valley, where there was a reported shooting. Upon arrival, first responders found one man suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body and a second man suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Both injuries were considered non-life-threatening. Investigators say a 16-year-old who knew both vic…
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Pair Used Stolen IDs To Land DC Apartments, Then Exploited Eviction Delays: Feds
They found a way to live rent-free. Then prosecutors say they kept doing it. Two DC residents are accused of cycling through stolen and fake identities to land apartments without paying the bills, exploiting an eviction process that could keep them inside for months while losses climbed into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maliktra Derenorcourt, 27, and Philippe Oliver Gadie, 34, were charged in a seven-count indictment unsealed this week as federal investigators continue digging into what they describe as a multiyear housing and Social Security fraud scheme. The alleged playbook was…
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Former Maryland Mayor Accused Of Stealing From Groups He Served As Treasurer: Prosecutor
He was the man trusted to keep track of the money. For nearly eight years, Maryland prosecutors say former mayor Bennard Cann instead misappropriated and embezzled funds while serving as treasurer for two organizations representing municipal leaders across the state and Prince George's County. Cann, 52, the former mayor of Morningside, was indicted on seven counts in connection with money belonging to the Maryland Mayors' Association and Prince George's County Municipal Association, State's Attorney Tara Jackson announced on Friday, Oct. 2. And this wasn't a matter of a few questionable tr…
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'Fireball' Zoey Harrison's Killer Gets Prison Time For Deadly Maryland Police Chase Crash
For Zoey Harrison's family, nine years cannot bring their little "Fireball" back. But the Maryland man whose decision to flee police ended with the 3-year-old girl dead is now headed to prison. Capitol Heights resident Larry Naylor, 42, was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 2, to 10 years in prison with all but nine years suspended for grossly negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle, Prince George's County State's Attorney Tara Jackson announced. He will also serve five years of supervised probation after his release. The sentence comes nearly 19 months after the crash that killed Zoey Rose Marie…
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Pills, 'Lean,' $300 Prescriptions: Annandale Doctor Fueled Multi-State Drug Scheme, Feds Say
A doctor's appointment came with a much different price tag: $300 for a fraudulent prescription. Four Maryland men who helped turn prescriptions from a Virginia doctor into a multi-state drug operation were sentenced in federal court on Friday, Oct. 2, after admitting to their roles in a scheme involving thousands of oxycodone pills and massive quantities of prescription cough syrup. The undertaking centered around Dr. Rotimi Iluyomade and his Crossover Medical Center in Annandale, where prosecutors say co-conspirators arrived with lists of supposed "patients," false addresses and different…
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Drugs, Not Police Restraint, Caused Michael MacDougall's Maryland In-Custody Maryland Death: AG
The bodycam raised questions. The autopsy provided an answer. A Maryland medical examiner determined that 40-year-old Michael MacDougall died from the combined effects of methadone and amphetamine following the July 1 crash and police encounter that ended with him unconscious in Greenbelt. His death was ruled an accident, and the restraint used by law enforcement did not contribute to it, according to findings released on Friday, Oct. 2, by the Maryland Attorney General's Office. Michael MacDougall Maryland OAG Attorney General Anthony Brown announced that Greenbelt Police Officer …
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Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana
"Murder for hire." That's how Baltimore native Deondre Tywon Sharps advertised himself online before carrying out a targeted Maryland murder for the promise of money and marijuana. Sharps, 20, pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 2, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the deaths of Keion Damont McKinney and Joshua Ray Holland, both 34. The two men were murdered 15 days apart in June 2024. McKinney was first. Shortly after 7:20 p.m. on June 14, he was outside on Meade Village Circle in Severn when Sharps shot him once in the head. Surveillance video captured Sharps f…
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Fake Federal Agents Steal $6.5M In National Fraud; Victims Didn't Know They Were Scammed
Two more victims of a nationwide gold scam involving fake federal agents had no idea they had been swindled until troopers contacted them, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Friday, Oct. 2. The scheme has been linked to approximately $6.5 million in losses across the country, with victims identified in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington State, according to police. The releases do not say whether the newly detailed losses are already included in that figure. “There are victims that are completely unaware that they are even victims,” Trooper Lauren Lesher wrote in an email to Daily Vo…
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Former Yale Football Coach Tony Reno Dies At 52 After Lengthy Illness
Tony Reno, the coach who guided Yale football to five Ivy League championships, has died at 52, the university’s athletic director announced on Friday, Oct. 2. Reno stepped down for health reasons in February. He had been living with a neurodegenerative disease since August 2025. Even as his health declined, Reno coached the Bulldogs through every game of the 2025 season. Yale won another Ivy League title and reached the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. His loss reaches beyond the sidelines in New Haven. His son, Dante, serves as Yale’s starting quarterback. Re…
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Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony
Killing his girlfriend's father wasn't the end of it, prosecutors say. A Maryland jury convicted Corey Conaway this week of first-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of 67-year-old Perry Comeau, then found him guilty of trying to influence Comeau's daughter before trial. Comeau was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside his home on Half Dollar Court in Columbia at around 10:49 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2024. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators quickly zeroed in on Conaway, who was dating Comeau's daughter at the time and had been involved in an earlier conflict with…
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2 Men Avoid Prison After Setting Off Blast Inside Harvard Medical School
Two Massachusetts men received probation after admitting to setting off an explosion inside a Harvard Medical School research lab. Logan David Patterson, 19, of Plymouth, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 21, of Bourne, set off a large commercial firework that triggered a fire alarm at the school’s Goldenson Building in Boston around 2:45 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2025, federal prosecutors said. US District Judge Angel Kelley sentenced each man to three years of probation. She also ordered them to pay $28,517 in restitution to the medical school. Both men pleaded guilty in April 2026 to conspir…
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Virginia Elementary School Teacher Charged After Alleged Assault Involving Student: Sheriff
A Virginia elementary school teacher is facing a criminal charge over what allegedly happened with a student. Valerie Bowen, 49, of Ashburn, a teacher at Horizon Elementary School in Loudoun County, has been charged with assault and battery following an investigation by the sheriff's office, officials announced on Friday, Oct. 2. The investigation began one day earlier. According to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, the School Resource Officer assigned to Horizon Elementary was notified on Thursday, Oct. 1, about an alleged incident involving Bowen and a student. Investigators have not…
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