Police Blotter
WASHINGTON D.C. – These are excerpts from the Washington D.C. Police Department's daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by police precincts and the neighborhoods they patrol.
POSTED November 21, 2008 | 12:05 AM
DC:Legislative aide admits to not reporting gifts: A former legislative aide for Sen. Kit Bond, R.-Mo., pleaded guilty Thursday in Washington to failing to report as income thousands of dollars in illegal gifts that he received from lobbyists. Trevor L. Blackann, 34, admitted in federal court that he received thousands of dollars in gifts from three lobbyists in 2003, including a trip to attend baseball’s World Series in New York, drinks, meals, chauffeured rides and entertainment at a gentlemen’s club. Blackann, who went on to work for convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, admitted the lobbyists gave him the gifts because he could help them with official legislative business.
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Contractor charged with murdering Afghan: A defense contractor who once provided security to the Afghan president and Iraqi prime minister has been charged with murdering an Afghan civilian. Don M. Ayala, of New Orleans, helped subdue and arrest Abdul Salam after the Afghan civilian tossed a container of flammable liquid at a fellow contractor, according to court documents filed in federal court in Alexandria. After Salam was handcuffed and Ayala learned that the fellow contractor had suffered serious burns, Ayala shot Salam in the head, killing him instantly, prosecutors said. Ayala worked for contractor BAE Systems, a company with North American headquarters in Rockville.
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Three plead guilty to bank fraud scheme: Three of the nine people charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud pleaded guilty Thursday in a case that was cracked open when the group targeted Sen. Strom Thurmond’s former chief of staff. Precious Matthews, 27, of Miami, Ezenwa Onyedebelu, 20, and Brandy Anderson, 20, of Dallas, all pleaded guilty to stealing personal information to access and clean out large balances in home equity line of credit accounts. The group, prosecutors said, would launder the money overseas. The charges were filed in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Last year, Robert Short, Thurmond’s former chief of staff, who lives in Alexandria, found $280,000 missing from his account. The investigation led federal officials to the conspiring group.
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POSTED November 20, 2008 | 12:05 AM
DC:Search continues for suspect in Sunday attack: Arlington county police are looking for a Hispanic man known as “Mascota” who attacked a man late Sunday night. Police said the attack, which happened on the 5000 block of South Columbia Pike, might have been gang related. The suspect is between 35 and 40 years old, about 5-foot-10 tall and weighs 150 pounds.
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Man with gun arrested, mentioned White House: Baltimore police arrested a 25-year-old man with a gun at a MARC station after he supposedly mentioned the White House to cab driver.
Police say when the cab driver spotted the butt of a rifle sticking out of a towel Asa Seeley was carrying, he dropped Seeley at a train station and flagged down police.
Seeley got off the train as officers boarded, left the rifle behind and jumped to the platform. He injured his ankle in the fall at the station near Franklin and Mulberry streets around 7 a.m.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said investigators believe Seeley was trying to make his way back to his D.C. residence and might have been mentioning the White House as a landmark to orient the cab driver.
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Body found believed to be that of missing woman: Fairfax County police believe they have found the body of Ericka Yancey inside her car early Wednesday.
Police had been looking for Yancey, 22, since Sunday morning. On Monday morning the property manager for Yancey’s apartment complex, Camden Dulles Station, reported finding what appeared to be a trail of blood leading from the parking lot to a trash bin.
The car was found on the 13000 block of Sunrise Valley Drive, about 3 miles from Yancey’s apartment.
Police were waiting for confirmation that it was her body found inside the 2007 Hyundai.
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POSTED November 18, 2008 | 12:05 AM
DC:Woodbridge fire nets one fatality, man hospitalized: A woman died and a man was being treated for serious injuries after an early morning fire in a Woodbridge town house. A Prince William County fire spokeswoman said authorities don’t know what caused the fire on the 15200 block of Valley Stream Drive shortly before 1 a.m. Monday. Both the police and fire departments are investigating. This is the county’s first fatal fire of the year. Authorities have not released the names of the victims.
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POSTED November 18, 2008 | 12:05 AM
DC:Doctor charged with false Medicaid, Medicare billing: A Prince George’s County foot doctor was charged with falsely billing the Medicaid and Medicare programs, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office announced Monday. Edward Michael Horvath, 50, of Laurel, was charged with falsely billing the programs over a five-year period for podiatry services that he did not perform. The charging documents do not state the amount that he is accused of stealing, only that it is more than $500. Horvath’s podiatry practice is based in Prince George’s County and he submitted his requests for payment to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore.
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U.S. soldier sentenced for illegal firearms sale: A U.S. soldier was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for the illegal sale of firearms that police said were used in a series of armed robberies. Leonard Stephan Lockley, 28, of Bowie, pleaded guilty earlier this year to receiving and selling machine guns that he got out of Iraq while deployed with the Army near Baghdad. These weapons were later used in a series of bank robberies in the Washington area, police said. FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau agents investigating a bank robbery later recovered the guns.
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Elderly man killed in three-car collision: A 74-year-old man was killed in a three-car collision in Gaithersburg on Monday afternoon. The incident happened around 4 p.m., on North Frederick Avenue and Montgomery Village Avenue. A elderly passenger in one of the cars, Mohamed Aboul-Enein, of Gaithersburg, died from injuries suffered in the crash, authorities said. The crash investigation continues, police said.
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