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$17M Cocaine Bust: Maryland Police Help Take Down Mexican Cartel-Linked Philly Operation
A major Philadelphia drug trafficking organization moved hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Mexico and pushed up to $10 million worth of the drug onto city streets each month, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday, Sept. 23. Ten people have been indicted in the takedown of the Jones-Basley Drug Trafficking Organization, which coordinated with a Mexican drug cartel to transport cocaine into Philadelphia, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. More than $8 million worth of cocaine and multiple firearms were seized locally, while seizures connected…
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160+ Golf Carts Torched As Fire Rips Through Maryland Repair Business (
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A sea of golf carts was left scorched and twisted after an early morning fire tore through a Maryland business. Firefighters were called to the 15200 block of Crain Highway in Brandywine around 6:33 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, where flames had broken out at a commercial golf cart repair business, according to the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department. Several golf carts were already burning when crews arrived, and the flames had begun spreading to an office building on the property. By the time firefighters got the blaze under control, the damage stretched far beyond those first few c…
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Masturbating Man Forces Woman To Stand On Flight From NY To NJ, Airline Confirms
A man masturbating on a flight from New York to New Jersey left one woman no choice but to stand for the duration of the flight, as there were no other available seats, Daily Voice has learned. The incident was reported to flight attendants on a Sept. 3 flight operated by United Express partner Republic Airways from Rochester, NY to Newark Liberty Airport, a United Airlines spokesperson tells Daily Voice. "The customer stayed in the aircraft galley until returning to her seat for the landing," United said in a statement. "United Airlines staff members learned about it as customers were…
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Motorcyclist Dies After Car Turns Across His Path On Maryland Road: Police
A motorcyclist has died from injuries suffered in a weekend crash in Maryland. Elias Crespo Tejada, 42, of Glen Burnie, died after his motorcycle collided with a turning vehicle shortly before 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20 in Linthicum, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Investigators say Tejada was riding a 2026 Yamaha south on Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard when a 2017 Nissan traveling in the opposite direction attempted to turn left onto westbound East Maple Road. As the Nissan crossed the southbound lanes, Tejada's motorcycle struck the passenger side of the vehicle, police said. …
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Man In US Illegally Pursued Agent Posing As 14-Year-Old Girl In Virginia, Feds Say
The 14-year-old girl he thought he was pursuing didn't even exist. A 50-year-old man living in the US illegally was sentenced in Virginia on Wednesday to 18 years in federal prison after prosecutors say he repeatedly solicited an undercover officer posing as a teen before showing up at a Fairfax County park expecting to meet her for sex. Mario Alexander Bonilla Canales, a Salvadoran national who had previously been removed from the US at least three times, first made contact with the supposed girl on Facebook in June 2025, according to federal prosecutors. "She" was actually an undercover …
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Gunman Who Killed McDonald's Worker Building Happy Meal Boxes Learns Prison Fate
He was building Happy Meal boxes when the gunman walked up to the drive-thru window. More than four years after 23-year-old Britrain Marcelus Gray was shot to death during an overnight shift at a Maryland McDonald's, the man convicted of killing him will spend life plus 20 years in prison. Ja'Quan Dontremique Green, 25, of Middle River, was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 23 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for the May 2022 murder at the McDonald's on Route 3 South in Gambrills. Gray, an Odenton resident, was working inside the restaurant's cash booth shortly before 5 a.m. on May 13 when…
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Escapee At Large After Cutting Off Ankle Monitor, Fleeing In Maryland: Sheriff
A court-ordered GPS monitor wasn't going to keep one Maryland woman from disappearing, authorities say. Melissa Irene Richards, 34, of Mechanicsville, remains wanted after deputies responding to a tampering alert on Sept. 9 found her monitoring device cut off and discarded in a tree line along Point Lookout Road in Leonardtown, according to the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office. Richards was on pre-trial release at the time, and investigators say she hasn't been found since the monitor was discovered. Deputies were called to the 28000 block of Point Lookout Road after receiving the alert …
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‘Anything You Wanna Say Last?’ Text To Owner Preceded Husky's Execution In DC Alley: Feds
The dog was supposed to come home. Instead, a stolen Siberian Husky was allegedly used as leverage in a dispute over a vehicle before being driven into a DC alley and shot in the head, federal prosecutors say. The killing was the final act of an alleged plot involving two Suitland residents and a DC man who are now facing federal charges after prosecutors say they threatened the dog's owner and tried to force him to turn over a vehicle. It began on July 8, when a dispute broke out between Tierra Love, 38, and the dog's owner over Love's use of the vehicle, according to the indictment. Pro…
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Star Antonio Brown To Avoid Prison With Plea Deal In Miami Attempted Murder Case: Lawyer
Former NFL star Antonio Brown could receive probation instead of prison in a Miami shooting case under a plea deal his lawyer says Brown plans to accept. Brown, 38, is due in a Miami court on Sept. 30, and his attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, said prosecutors offered to reduce the second-degree attempted murder charge, CBS News Miami reported. Brown has not yet accepted the deal in court. The charge stems from gunfire after a celebrity boxing match in Miami on May 16, 2025. If convicted, Brown could have faced up to 30 years in prison, including a mandatory 20-year term. Eiglarsh said the of…
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Virginia Fugitive Shoves Maryland Deputy, Takes Wheel Before Fatal 5-Mile Chase (
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A wanted passenger made her move the moment the driver's seat opened up during a traffic stop in Maryland. Newly released video shows the woman climbing across the center console of a stopped Toyota in Charles County, shoving a sheriff's officer away from the open driver's door and taking off with another passenger still in the back seat. Five miles later, that passenger was gravely injured in a wrong-way crash that ultimately claimed her life. The dramatic sequence unfolded shortly after 10:20 a.m. on Aug. 25 near Leonardtown Road and Lakewood Drive in Waldorf, where Charles County Sherif…
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‘Little Voice’ That Told Maryland Man To Turn Around At Wawa Lands Him $50K Jackpot
Sometimes, it pays to listen to that little voice in your head. For one Maryland man, it paid $50,000. The Charles County electrician had lunch in hand and was already leaving a Wawa in Suitland when something kept nagging at him: Go back. He had no particular reason to. He'd already bought his Pick 5 tickets that morning. He was hungry. Lunch was getting cold. There was a job site to get back to. But there was also one set of numbers he hadn't played. That was enough. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it, because there was one of my favorite combinations that I didn’t play,” the longtim…
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US Park Police Officer Seriously Injured In Crash That Shut Down Route 50 In Virginia (
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A US Park Police officer was seriously injured in the crash that shut down a major Virginia highway in both directions for hours on Wednesday afternoon. The on-duty officer was involved in a collision with another vehicle at approximately 1:43 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Route 50 and Loudoun County Parkway in Loudoun County, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. The officer suffered serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The occupants of the other vehicle were not injured and were released from the scene, investigators said. The crash brought traffic to a st…
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