69°

Friday, may 16

Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

FOLLOW ON

Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram

Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

Zak Failla's Contributions

Traffic

Support Swells For Husband-Wife's Popular Maryland Doughnut Shop Damaged By Car A son in Maryland is rallying the community to support his parents after a car crashed into their beloved doughnut shop in Prince George's County. One person suffered minor injuries shortly after 8 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30 after crashing a Honda into the side of Laurel Tavern Donuts in the 100 block of Washington Boulevard in Laurel, leaving the building with substantial damage. The driver crashed into the side of the doughnut shop in Laurel. Prince George's County Fire/EMS In response, Sean Kwon has started a GoFundMe campaign on behalf of his parents, who have been in business servin…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

News

Man's Brother Pretended To Be NY Mobster As Part Of $4M Embezzlement Scheme In MD/DC: Feds Henry Hill immortalized the line "as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." That mantra didn't work out well for a pair of brothers - one of whom pretended to be a New York mobster - to get a Maryland man to embezzle more than $4 million from his employer in Washington, DC. New York native Corry Blue Evans, 31, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in an elaborate fraud, extortion, and money laundering scheme that involved several other close-knit co-conspirators who worked to exploit the multi-million dollar scheme. The sentence comes y…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Standoff Ended By SWAT Officers Deploying Pepper Balls In Maryland Department Store: Police New details have been released by the Montgomery County Department of Police following a four-hour standoff inside an area department store. Armed with a knife, police say that Christopher Lawrence, 37, attempted to steal a watch from JC Penney at the Westfield Wheaton Mall, but was caught and wound up barricading himself inside of a fitting room, forcing an evacuation of the store while police worked to resolve the situation. The barricade was reported at JC Penney at the Wheaton Mall Google Maps street view The incident began at around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, with dozens …

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Teen Strangled While Breaking Up Fight In Virginia Apartment, Police Say A grown man who choked a teenager attempting to intervene during a domestic dispute involving a woman in Prince William County is at large, according to police. Shortly before 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday night, officers from the Prince William County Police Department responded to the Woodburn Apartment complex in the 11300 block of Golden Leaf Circle in Manassas, where there was a reported incident involving 39-year-old Joseph Edward Moore III and a woman. According to police, Moore was involved in a verbal altercation with the 34-year-old woman that rapidly escalated, leading him to allegedly pu…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Traffic

30-Year-Old Man Killed In High-Speed Crash With BMW In Fairfax County: Cops One person was killed and a second critically injured in a Virginia crash that took the life of a 30-year-old man. Speed is believed to have been a factor in the crash that killed Sohail Iqbal, of Manassas, VA, just after midnight on Monday, Dec. 4 at the intersection of Lee Highway and Clifton Road in Centreville, Fairfax County police said. A BMW was heading south on Stringfellow Road near the intersection of Route 29 when it struck Iqbal's Hyundai, also going south, as it crossed through the roadway. The collision forced Iqbal across the intersection, onto the embankment there, and into…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Drunk Driver Injures Spotsy Sheriff's Deputy In Head-On Crash, Investigators Say Sheriff's deputies in Spotsylvania didn't have to go far to track down a suspect drunk driver, in fact, he came straight for them. A midday call came into the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office on Friday, Dec. 1 regarding a possibly drunk driver who was in the area of Orange Plank Road near the Orange County Line, officials said on Wednesday. A deputy responded to the area, near the intersection of West Catharpin Road and Dulin Lake, at which point the driver, Spotsylvania resident John Anthony Fields, 57, lost control of his SUV and struck the police cruiser head-on. The deputy was take…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Hours-long Standoff At Maryland Mall Ends With Suspect In Custody; Store To Stay Closed The barricaded suspect who went through an hours-long standoff with police at a Maryland mall has been taken into custody, authorities announced. Officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police were called around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday to JC Penney at the Wheaton Mall, where a person barricaded themselves inside the store, which had to be evacuated. For hours, police and SWAT teams swarmed around the store in an attempt to resolve the situation peacefully, and at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, the agency said that the barricaded suspect has been taken into custody. MCPD h…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Man Who Exposed Himself At VA Shopping Center Attempted To Disarm Arresting Officer: Police Dumfries resident Marquise Davon Bastic put on one heck of a show for shoppers at Potomac Hills on Tuesday, police say. Officers from the Prince William County Police Department were called to the shopping center in Woodbridge early on Tuesday morning to investigate a reported assault. They got more than they bargained for. According to police, while inside the shopping center, Bastic confronted other patrons, striking a 25-year-old man before grabbing a 55-year-old woman and holding a boxcutter to her neck. She was eventually released, at which point investigators say that Bastic ran int…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Driver, 69, Dies By Suicide On I-95: State Police (Update) A fatal crash involving a tractor trailer that tied up traffic for miles along I-95 in Prince William County is believed to have been a suicide, Virginia State Police said. Lloyd R. Felder, of Triangle, had pulled off onto the right, northbound shoulder at milepost 158 around 9:05 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, then got out of his black Toyota Tundra, Virginia State Police said. Felder then got out of his car and stepped into the northbound lanes of travel, where he was struck by an oncoming tractor trailer, near Woodbridge were closed due to a crash in the area of Opitz Boulevard, police sai…

by Zak Failla & Cecilia Levine

12/06/2023

Police & Fire

Additional Victims Sought After Sexual Assault Suspect Who Abused Child Arrested In Baltimore Police in Baltimore are fearful that there may be additional victims after they picked up an Anne Arundel man who was wanted for the sexual assault of a child. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, the Baltimore Police Department announced that they have arrested Jimmy Brown, 38, for the alleged abuse of his underage victim. Brown, who is known to frequent the Brooklyn Homes Community in Baltimore is possibly responsible for the sexual assault of additional victims, according to police. The investigation into Brown is ongoing. Anyone who may have been victimized by Brown or who has information regar…

by Zak Failla

12/06/2023

Prev Page 581 of 3349 579 580 581 582 583 Next

5,801 - 5,810 of 33,488 articles