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David L. Williams of Boyds was sentenced to 45 years after pleading guilty to first degree rape in a 2017 assault that Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy called “an incredibly vicious and heinous crime.” Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Steven Salant also sentenced Williams, 31, to five-years of supervised probation once he is released […]

Maxwell Bero, 31, of Point of Rocks, Md., was sentenced to 50 years in prison, with all but eight years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to two counts of sex abuse of a minor. Friday, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge David Boynton sentenced Bero on the two felony counts. Bero will be on supervised probation […]

Four Silver Spring men were sentenced for their parts in an armed robbery in Takoma Park last summer. According to Takoma Park Police Chief Antonio DeVaul, at 11:30 p.m. on June 6, 2020, police responded to the 8200 block of Flower Avenue where they found a victim sitting in the area who told police he […]

Byung Il “Peter” Bang received a 15-year sentence for embezzling $6.7 million from Montgomery County on Thursday. Bang, a former official with the Department of Economic Development, had concocted elaborate schemes to hide his thefts, which he used on gambling, prosecutors said. In his sentencing memo to Circuit Court Judge Cheryl McCally, State’s Attorney John […]

A Germantown physician received an eight-year prison sentence Tuesday for 26 counts arising from nearly $1.4 million in kickbacks and fraudulent billing as well as a plan to defraud the United States of more than $2.1 million in taxes, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore. Atif Babar Malik, 48, will […]

A Silver Spring woman was sentenced to five years, all but nine months suspended, for embezzling about $71,000 from Montgomery County PTAs. “The damage is widespread. You don’t have to recover from it. They do,” Judge David Boynton told Lisa Betts, 46, of Silver Spring. Boynton ordered Betts to repay the Montgomery County Council of […]

A 49-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bank robbery, including the robbery of an Olney bank, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. Tyrone Kevin Gregg pleaded guilty in January to one count of bank robbery and specifically admitted to robbing or attempting to rob eight other banks […]

A 23-year-old man from Northeast Washington received a life sentence Wednesday for the death of a 72-year-old woman in Wheaton, State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. Kwasi Sadler was convicted in the death of Linda Johnston, who was stabbed in her Arcola Avenue home Aug. 6, 2015, according to a statement by Montgomery County police at […]

Narges Shafeirad was sentenced to 50 years for killing her 5-year-old son a day before a bitter divorce was to be finalized, State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. Shafeirad killed her son June 16, 2015, by forcing him to take antihistamine, then faking a car crash in an attempt to conceal her role in his death, […]

UPDATED: A Potomac man found guilty of a road rage incident that escalated into a double stabbing outside the Westfield Montgomery Mall last year is scheduled for his sentencing Tuesday, Jan. 13 . The case is expected to be heard at 1:30 p.m. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl McCally agreed to delay sentencing in the case against […]