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Authorities are looking for a young mother who has been missing from Virginia for more than a month. Heather Hodges, 22, was last seen at her Rocky Mount home on April 9, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Her boyfriend briefly left the residence at about 10:30 p.m., and when he returned, Hodges was gone, the sheriff's office said. Relatives say it is extremely unusual for Hodges, who has a 2-year-old daughter, to be out of touch with family members for an extended period of time, authorities said. Officials have said Hodges has left the Franklin County area in the past but never for this long or without contacting her family while away. "We just need her home," her sister, Crystal Hodges, told WSLS, ... Continue reading →
A Northern Virginia man has been sentenced to nine years and three months in prison for scamming his girlfriend, relatives and others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and improperly accessing national-security databases through four separate fraud schemes. David L. Parker, 50, pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges in February and was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria. He committed four distinct, wide-ranging scams stretching back to 2006, according to prosecutors and court documents. The fraudulent ploys victimized his grandparents, daughter and girlfriend, involved fictitious investment opportunities and employment contracts with the French government, and breached U.S. government databases. In total, his relatives, friends and financial institutions lost more than $300,000 as a result of the schemes, prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum. ... Continue reading →
A nationally known taekwondo coach from Fairfax County has been indicted on charges of having sexual contact with two female teenage students. Fairfax County police said officers began investigating 38-year-old Quyen V. Phan Le in June, when a former student reported that Phan Le had inappropriate sexual contact with her multiple times between May 2003 and January 2005. Investigators later learned of a second girl with whom he allegedly had inappropriate relations with in 2008. Both girls were students at Phan Le's martial arts academy, Phan University of Martial Arts in Burke, said Officer Shelley Broderick, a Fairfax police spokeswoman. The academy's website says its students have made the U.S. national team and USA Taekwondo named Phan Le its coach of the year in 2010. ... Continue reading →
Man arrested in wife's District Heights stabbing death May 23, 2012 -- 11:38 AM Continue reading →
Authorities are looking for a young mother who has been missing from Virginia for more than a month. Heather Hodges, 22, was last seen at her Rocky Mount home on April 9, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Her boyfriend briefly left the residence at about 10:30 p.m., and when he returned, Hodges was gone, the sheriff's office said. Relatives say it is extremely unusual for Hodges, who has a 2-year-old daughter, to be out of touch with family members for an extended period of time, authorities said. Officials have said Hodges has left the Franklin County area in the past but never for this long or without contacting her family while away. "We just need her home," her sister, Crystal Hodges, told WSLS, ... Continue reading →
One man has been arrested in connection with the December slaying of a local rapper that stemmed from a botched drug deal, according to court documents. Montgomery County police said 29-year-old Dennis Mackabee was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 24-year-old Franklin Amobi. Amobi, known in the local music community as a rapper who used the name "Frank Diggy," was found dead from a gunshot wound on the 11400 block of Stewart Lane in the White Oak area of Silver Spring at about 6:40 a.m. on Dec. 27. The circumstances behind the killing had puzzled investigators. Just last month, police passed out flyers and set up a digital signpost at a nearby bus stop in an effort to solicit tips from pedestrians ... Continue reading →
