May 22, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
The Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office has recently posted two arrests involving theft charges on its website. The County Sheriff’s Office reported the arrest of a man by the Warrant/Fugitive Division on four indictments of robbery with a deadly weapon and other related charges. The robbery charges stemmed from four indictments that occurred in 2002 […]
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April 19, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
Maryland’s gun laws are about to become among the strictest in the U.S. As reported by Fox News, the new gun control bill received final passage in the Maryland Senate after slight changes to the bill were approved on Wednesday by the House of Delegates. The Senate vote was 28 in favor, 19 opposed. The measure […]
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March 19, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
The driver of a car that struck a school bus died Friday morning, March 15, 2013. According to police and school officials, none of the children on the bus were injured. The driver of the bus was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. According to somdnews.com, nine students from Great Mills High School […]
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March 13, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
According to Elizabeth Campbell, Charles County Emergency Services spokesperson, on the morning of March 7, a propane tanker truck overturned prompting the closure of Bensville Road from Carrie Court to Zoll Lane. Courtesy of SoMdNews.com, the propane tanker can hold up to 2,000 pounds. It was 85 percent filled at the time of the single-vehicle accident, […]
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February 25, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
As reported in The New York Times, the parents of a soldier who died after having used Jack3d pronounced “jacked,” have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the workout booster’s developer and marketer, USPlabs, and the dietary supplement store where the product was purchased, GNC. A spokesperson for GNC said the company does not comment on pending […]
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February 11, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
Wire-tapped phone conversations, texts, and cell phone tower data were introduced as evidence in the first-degree murder trial of Michael Maurice Johnson in Baltimore Circuit Court, which ended in a guilty verdict for the second-degree murder of Phylicia Barnes. Police say the communications and tower data helped track the accused’s movements the day in December […]
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\ Criminal Defense
Our children are most precious to us. Their safety is our primary concern because they cannot look out for themselves and we expect that product manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies also hold child safety as a primary concern, but this does not always seem to be the case. As reported by ABC News, the pharmaceutical company that […]
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February 1, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
An accident involving a fire truck and a tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway near Route 50 in Maryland during the early morning of January 30 caused seven people to be sent to the hospital. The aftermath of the crash on the inner loop caused all lanes in both directions on the Capital Beltway to be […]
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January 9, 2013 \ Criminal Defense
A new law took effect with the New Year in Maryland, giving non-violent offenders the chance to decrease the amount of time they must spend under the supervision of a parole or probation officer with consistent good behavior. According to an article in The Washington Times, as much as two-thirds of supervision time may be taken […]
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October 1, 2012 \ Criminal Defense
A Maryland prostitution sting that combined the efforts of federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local and state police departments. The sting netted 23 arrests in total. The Baltimore Sun reports that this Jessup, MD joint sting operation was part of an effort to target human trafficking. […]
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