On December 31, 2011, a hiker lost in Gambrill State Park was located and rescued by helicopters from the Maryland State Police Aviation Command and the United States Park Police, with support from the Frederick County Advanced Technical Rescue Team. A State Police helicopter crew located the hiker with information provided by Frederick County [...]
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The owner and the former vice president for corporate strategy of Viable Communications Inc. were each sentenced yesterday to 108 months and 55 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme that defrauded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of at least $20 million, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice [...]
The Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) has announced the arrest of Michael Deon McIntosh, 22, of Suitland, Md. for a series of armed robberies in the parking garage at Suitland station. MTPD detectives have linked McIntosh to at least four robberies within the Suitland station parking garage in recent months. In each case, customers were [...]
BALTIMORE—Baltimore Police officers Jerry Diggs, Jr., age 25, of Baltimore, and Osvaldo Valentine, age 39, Edgewood, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit and committing extortion under color of official right in connection with a scheme in which brothers Hernan Alexis Moreno, age 30, of Rosedale, and Edwin Javier Mejia, age 27, of Middle [...]
Cooper Kweme, 31, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for the sex trafficking of a female juvenile, stemming from a prostitution business operated by Kweme earlier this year in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Neil MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; James McJunkin, [...]
WASHINGTON—A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chemist pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow in the District of Maryland to one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements, related to a $3.7 million insider trading scheme that spanned nearly five years. The guilty plea was announced by [...]
Bike commuters looking for a more secure way of protecting their ride will soon have a new option at the College Park Metrorail station, with the addition of Metro’s first “Bike & Ride” facility. Once completed, the new Bike & Ride—essentially a 2,400-square-foot room with steel mesh walls—will provide a bright, access-controlled area for locking [...]
SPEEDING DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH ON RT. 100 (PASADENA, MD) – A man who was speeding and driving erratically when he was spotted by a Maryland state trooper refused to stop and moments later was fatally injured when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a tree late this afternoon in Anne Arundel County. [...]
(RHODES POINT, MD) – US Coast Guard, Maryland Natural Resources Police, and Virginia Marine Police have located and recovered the body of a female believed to be the victim of the small plane crash yesterday in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay off Smith Island. The recovered body has not been positively identified, but is [...]
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(RHODES POINT, MD) – Maryland State Police, Natural Resources Police, and US Coast Guard resources were on the scene of the crash of a small plane in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay off Smith Island last night and investigators are interviewing the pilot who swam ashore from the wreckage. Shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday, [...]