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Authorities in Norfolk and Carroll County are investigating up to five possible wrongful convictions from years past. According to several reports, DNA testing in recent years involving more than 70 cases where officials discovered after testing evidence from cases failed to match with the convicted person. The cases under scrutiny range from 1973 through 1988.…
A Virginia swimming coach was arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor swimmer. According to reports, Noah Rucker, 39, was arrested in Fairfax County last week after a 27-year-old woman came forward and said Rucker had sex with her in 2001 when he coached at her high school. The alleged incident took place at…
One patient at a psychiatric care facility was arrested and charged with murder in the death of another patient Thursday morning in Fairfax County. According to reports, 24-year-old Mark Shelor allegedly stabbed 57-year-old Grady Alexander Vickers about 9:30 a.m. in the 1700 block of Old Meadow Road. Vickers was taken to a local hospital and…
A Fort Washington teen was sentenced Friday in the shooting of a toddler who was being held by his mother at the time. Eighteen-year-old Devon Matos was sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum sentence he could have received, after being convicted on two counts of assault, three handgun-related crimes and endangerment after an…
An Oakton dentist was charged with 15 criminal counts including illegally distributing prescription pills to patients, employees and women he dated as well as using the identity of another dentist to fraudulently bill insurance companies of more than $160,000 in claims. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Hamada Makarita, 50, was charged with conspiracy, health care…
Two teens were shot Friday at the Rockville Metro station and two other teens have been charged as adults in the incident Friday afternoon. According to reports, a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl were both shot once about 2:30 p.m. Friday and are suffering from non-life-threatening wounds. The Washington Post reported the boy was…
The younger brother of two NFL players has been charged with murder in the hammer death of a tourist in April and has also been declared to stand trial at the moment. A judge ordered that 19-year-old Michael Davis be treated for 60 days in a psychiatric hospital in an effort to “restore his compentancy”…
A Chesterfield County mom has been sentenced to four years in prison for the death of her infant daughter. Twenty-five-year-old Robin Imani Varner was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and felony child neglect in the January 2011 suffocation death of her 5 1/2-month-old daughter, Josephina. Varner placed several pillows and a blanket over the baby last…
A man serving a house arrest sentence has been charged in the stabbing death of his pregnant girlfriend. According to reports, 22-year-old Nathan Cedric Rogers has been charged with first-degree murder. Police found 23-year-old Jasmine Nichelle Moss’ body when they went to investigate a suspicious car report Friday night in District Heights. Moss was pregnant,…
A shop teacher has been charged with 12 felony counts of brandishing a weapon after an incident where he is accused of getting the students attention by shooting blanks in their direction. According to reports, on April 4 at the William H. Neff Center, 60-year-old Manuael Ernest Dillow is accused of lining his 12 students up against…