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4 days ago
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18-year-old charged for kidnapping woman in Montgomery County
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — An 18-year-old man from Burtonsville is facing charges related to a kidnapping that spanned two counties in Maryland. The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) said that on June 1, around 6:25 p.m., officers responded to Wexhall Drive and Greencastle Road for a reported kidnapping. Witnesses reported seeing a man grab a woman and force her into a sedan before driving off. As they left, the victim managed to throw her purse out of the car's window. Officers found the purse and learned who the victim was through her ID. They soon identified the suspect as 18-year-old Joel Akakpo. Man seen tearing down Dupont Circle Pride decorations; DC police investigating Soon after, the Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) got a call for a 'suspicious situation' involving the same sedan on Flintrock Drive in Beltsville. A witness said that they saw a woman inside a car screaming for help. She was able to lock the man out of the car for some time, but he used a rock to break a window and get back in before driving away. One day later, on June 2, MCPD officers, alongside the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, found both Akakpo and the victim in Burtonsville on Almanac Court. The woman had minor injuries from the incident. Akakpo is facing charges of kidnapping and second-degree assault and was held without bond. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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4 days ago
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Ex-Maryland officers plead guilty after staging car thefts to get insurance payouts
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. () — Two former Maryland officers recently pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to a years-long insurance fraud scheme. The U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) said former Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) officer 36-year-old Michael Anthony Owen, Jr. and former Anne Arundel County Police Department (AACPD) officer 31-year-old Jaron Earl Taylor admitted to being involved in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Between August 2018 and February 2020, Owen and Taylor worked with fellow police officers, Candace Tyler, Conrad D'Haiti and Davion Percy, among others, the USAO detailed. Man seen tearing down Dupont Circle Pride decorations; DC police investigating Members would report losses to auto insurers to obtain money or avoid paying off vehicles that were less than the amount owed to them, using their status as police officers to bolster each other's claims by writing fake police reports. Then, they submitted the police reports to insurers to validate the claim. In August 2018, the USAO said Owen and Taylor staged the theft of Taylor's Chevrolet Tahoe. After Taylor filed a fraudulent police report, reporting it as stolen, the two stripped the vehicle and drove it deep into the woods of a Maryland State Highway property near Largo. Once he filed a claim, the U.S. Automobile Association (USAA) paid Taylor more than $38,000 for the loss. Then, in January 2020, Owen reportedly helped D'Haiti avoid paying his loan balance on a Jaguar XKR. Working with him and Percy, Owen schemed to fake the car's theft. On Jan. 4 of that year, D'Haiti parked his car behind the Marlow Heights Shopping Center, where Percy worked as police chief. He paid Percy $350 to arrange for someone to tow the vehicle and 'extensively vandalize it for the purpose of creating a total insurance loss,' the USAO detailed. Tyler then filed a fake police report and D'Haiti filed a claim with Liberty Mutual Insurance. D'Haiti was paid $17,585 on the false claim. Trio accused of stealing over $30K in candles from Fairfax County retailers Also that month, Owen and Taylor helped a co-conspirator dispose of an Infiniti sedan so that they didn't have to make further payments on the vehicle while on duty overseas. The conspirator gave Taylor $1,000 to stage the theft. Taylor then forwarded the money to Owen, who filed another fake police report with PGPD, claiming the vehicle was stolen. In reality, the car had been moved to the top floor of an apartment complex's parking garage, replacing the car's license plates with ones from another vehicle. The stolen car claim the conspirators filed with GEICO was denied, however, on the grounds of fraud. Owen and Taylor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for which Owen faces up to 20 years in prison and Taylor faces up to three years. Their sentences are both scheduled for Sept. 23. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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4 days ago
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- Yahoo
Police investigate deadly mid-day double shooting in Prince George's County
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. () — Police in Prince George's County are at the scene of a deadly shooting that happened in the middle of the day on Tuesday. The Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) said officers responded to the 5600 block of Regency Park Ct. at 12:35 p.m., where two men were found inside an apartment suffering from gunshot wounds. Man seen tearing down Dupont Circle Pride decorations; DC police investigating One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, while the second man was taken to a hospital in critical condition. PGPD was still working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident as of 2 p.m. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Prince George's County Crime Solvers. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
