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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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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.

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Police & Fire

Murder Suspect Wanted In DC Arrested Fleeing In Colorado, Police Say A 23-year-old man wanted for murder in Washington, DC has been arrested halfway across the country, the Metropolitan Police Department announced on Tuesday. Eliexander Lopez-Burgos was taken into custody in Glendale, Colorado on Monday in connection to his role in the murder of Carlos Javier-Blanco Fernandez, 38, last month at an area gas station. Neither man has a fixed address, according to police. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, officers were called around 5:15 p.m. to the area of the 2200 block of New York Avenue NE, where they found Fernandez suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to an…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

Domestic Disturbance Leads Police In Maryland To Stash Of Stolen Apple Products: Police Piles upon piles of expensive Apple products were recovered by police in Montgomery County who came upon a host of stolen electronics while investigating a separate incident in the Silver Spring area, police say. Tremaine McDowell, 41, has been arrested and charged in connection to a string of burglaries after investigators from the Montgomery County Department of Police found him in possession of MacBook laptops, iPhones, and other electronics that had been taken from local residents. An investigation into a series of burglaries reported between June and November in the Lenox Park, Veridia…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

News

Passenger Admits To Shooting, Killing Man In Southeast DC Days After Purchasing New Gun: Feds The Maryland man who gunned down a another man inside a car in Southeast DC has copped to the crime, federal authorities announced. Silver Spring native Jordan Jones, 23, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter while armed for the fatal shooting of Noel Nicol, whose body was later found in October 2021 in the 2000 block of Savannah Place SE. He had initially faced a murder charge. According to court documents, Jones arranged to meet Nicol on Oct. 11, 2021, one day after he purchased a 9mm handgun - the same caliber as the murder weapon - and three days before his body was…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

Parents Who Took Son To Attack Teen Before Shooting Outside Maryland HS Indicted: Prosecutors The parents who brought their son to Carver Vocational High School in West Baltimore before a shooting are facing a host of charges, the state's attorney's office announced on Tuesday. Tiffany Harrison, William Dredden, and their underage son have been indicted following the non-fatal shooting at the school in October after a fight broke out near the building. According to the Baltimore Police Department, at around 7:50 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, a 15-year-old boy was taken to Carver High School by both his mother and father with the intention to assault an unidentified person. Baltimore Sta…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

7-Year-Old, Mom Touched By Nurse During Spotsy Exam: Sheriff A nurse practitioner from North Carolina working at a clinic in Virginia is facing charges for allegedly inappropriately touching a child, and 35-year-old woman in Spotsylvania over the past year, the sheriff's office announced on Tuesday. Keith Allen Henry, 55, of Lewisburg, NC, has been charged for the alleged inappropriate touching of patients during consultations at a medical clinic in Spotsylvania. In early November, detectives were alerted that a 7-year-old patient advised her mother that she had been touched, leading to the initial charges for Henry, who was arrested for aggravated s…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

Man Linked To Arlington Home Explosion Has Questionable Social Media History: Reports Police have identified a possible conspiracy theorist who may have been responsible for the barricade situation and explosion in an Arlington home. James Yoo, 56, who officials said lived in the North Burlington Street duplex, was named by Arlington Police Chief Andy Penn as a possible suspect who deployed a flare gun nearly three dozen times Monday evening, Dec. 4. According to multiple reports, Yoo was active on social media and made several posts, including one since-deleted LinkedIn post, which included claims about his neighbors spying on him, referring to his ex-wife as a "witch,…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

Toxic Relationship Lands Virginia Man Behind Bars For Strangling Woman, Police Say A man who allegedly abused a 30-year-old woman repeatedly during domestic disputes in recent months has been arrested in Prince William County, authorities announced. Danny Sang Nguyen Le, 32, was taken into custody in Woodbridge on Monday following a weeks-long investigation into a series of alleged violent domestic assaults that date back to at least July, police say. In November, officers from the Prince William County Police Department were called to the 3200 block of Wyndale Court in Woodbridge to investigate a reported domestic dispute that involved Nguyen Le choking his victim. …

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

Police & Fire

Man Accused Of Attempting To Kill Elderly Woman In Maryland Home, Police Say The man who allegedly slashed a 70-year-old woman in Baltimore who required emergency surgery is being accused of attempted murder, according to police. City resident William Bowles, 29, has been arrested for his alleged role in the early morning stabbing of an elderly woman in the 500 block of Otterbein Street late in November. The cutting incident was reported shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 27. Investigating officers called to the reported cutting say that they found the woman suffering from a "severe laceration" to her body, and she was taken to an area hospital, where she …

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

News

Panhandler Who Attacked Elderly Couple Admits To Beating Them With Victim's Cane In DC The panhandler responsible for a life-altering attack on an elderly couple outside a Northwest DC grocery store admitted to beating the pair up with their own cane when they didn't give him enough charity last year. District resident Alexander Adams, 35, pleaded guilty on Monday in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to violently assaulting 78-year-old John Hopkins and then 79-year-old Claudia Hopkins outside Giant in the 3700 block of Newark Street NW, likely leaving the latter with permanent damage. According to prosecutors, at around 11:10 p.m. on Feb. 23, 2022, Adams randomly…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

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Shooter Apprehended Months After Murder In Northeast DC, Police Say Police have arrested a suspected shooter more than five months after a 54-year-old woman was found dead in Northeast DC, authorities announced. Southeast DC resident Bobby Gupton, 25, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed in connection to the fatal shooting of Tavonayna Glenn, who has no fixed address, in June, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, officers from the department were called to the 700 block of 19th Street NE to investigate a reported shooting, where they found Glenn in the area. She was prono…

by Zak Failla

12/05/2023

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