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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.

Zak Failla's Contributions

News

Brothers In DMV Region Admit To Operating Open-Air Drug Market At DC Shell Station Two brothers from the DMV region may have seen “The Wire” too many times and are the latest to cop to their connection to an open-air drug market operating in and around a gas station in Southeast DC. It was a family affair for District Heights, resident Douglas Campbell and Southeast DC native Delonte Campbell, who admitted this week to felony charges in connection to their roles in selling drugs in the District, federal officials announced. The two are among six facing charges for the drug distribution conspiracy at the Shell gas station in the 4700 block of South Capitol Street SE. Pros…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Police & Fire

Group Of Shooters Open Fire Outside Harford County Home, Injuring One: Sheriff An investigation has been launched in Harford County after a late night incident in Edgewood left a 25-year-old man hospitalized at an area trauma center, according to the sheriff’s office. Shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday, May 1, deputies from the Harford County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 1900 block of Eloise Lane in Edgewood, where they found Donald Purnell Williams suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Officials said that deputies provided aid to the Edgewood resident until paramedics arrived to take over and transport Williams to a local trauma center for treatment an…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Police & Fire

Wild Video Shows Out-Of-Control BMW Narrowly Missing Fairfax County Officer On Traffic Stop A fast-moving Fairfax County police officer was able to avoid disaster after nearly being crushed by an out of control BMW that skittered across the roadway while he was conducting a traffic stop in the opposite lanes of traffic, according to authorities. Video shows the 17-year-old's 2018 BMW M3 come careening across opposite lanes of traffic around 11:40 a.m. Monday, May 1. The officer jumps out of the way right in the knick of time, but the BMW slammed the other vehicle pulled over in the traffic stop, and the officer's patrol car. The driver was apparently speeding northbound on the pa…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Traffic

Traffic Tied Up On Route 5 For Fatal Crash Investigation In Prince Georges County (Developing) Traffic is tied up in Prince George’s County as Maryland State Police investigate a reported fatal crash. At approximately 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, troopers were called on Maryland Route 5 near Allentown Road in Prince George’s County to investigate a reported fatal crash. The crash forced state police to shut down all three southbound lanes in the roadway, as well as both shoulders Route 5 as of 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Details of the crash were not immediately available as state police investigated the incident. #TRAFFICALERT: @MDSP is investigating a fatal crash on MD Route 5…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

News

Silver Alert Issued For Missing 67-Year-Old Man In DC Seen him? A Silver Alert has been issued by the Metropolitan Police Department as they seek the public's assistance in locating a missing 67-year-old man who has not been seen since the weekend. Friends and family of Franklin Davis are concerned after not hearing from him since approximately 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 29. He was last seen in the 500 block of Lebaum Street SE on Saturday, and it was reported to the police on Monday, May 1. *SILVER ALERT**Critical #MissingPerson 67-year-old Franklin Davis, who was last seen in the 500 block of Lebaum Street, SE, on Saturday, April 2…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Business

'Lucky Penny' Leads To $50,000 Prize For Maryland Lottery Prize Regular A Montgomery County woman gave her co-workers a scare after celebrating a five-figure Maryland Lottery win a bit too exuberantly in the office. With an assist from her “lucky penny,” a 48-year-old woman from Silver Spring claimed a $50,000 prize on a “Lucky Times 10” scratch-off lottery ticket, which she called her “lucky game.” She said that she “usually tries to stay low-key” at her job, but when she realized her new cash windfall, she couldn’t keep her excitement in check, startling some of her nearby co-workers. “I started to scream and had to shut my door. My co-workers asked me if I…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

News

Shooter Admits To Gunning Down MTA Driver In Baltimore Family and friends of an MTA Mobility driver who was killed on the job in 2021 have gotten justice after his shooter copped to the crime. Marquis Poteat, 35, pleaded guilty this week to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison, with all but 60 years suspended, for killing Frankye Duckett two years ago, prosecutors announced on Tuesday, May 2. Additionally, Poteat pleaded guilty to the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence and was sentenced to an additional 20 years on that offense for shooting Duckett, 49, on January 2021 in the 4400 block of Mo…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

News

Bank Robbers Busted After Botched Attempt, Police Pursuit In MD: Sheriff Four suspects are facing felony charges for their roles in a botched attempted bank heist in Calvert County and subsequent police pursuit, authorities announced. The Calvert County Sheriff's Office announced that four would-be robbers, all from Washington, DC, have been taken into custody following the incident at M&T Bank in Dunkirk on Monday, May 1. Those charged: Cedric Fonta Moore, 39; Silas Moliek Moore, 37; Jamel Anthony Brown, 31; Donise Sarah Blacknell, 26. (Clockwise from top right) Cedric Fonta Moore, Silas Moliek Moore, Donise Sarah Blacknell, Jamel Anthony Brown.Cal…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Police & Fire

Murder Suspect In Custody Months After MD Apartment Shooting: Police A months-long investigation into the killing of a 38-year-old Maryland man led to the apprehension of a murder suspect wanted in Prince George’s County, police say. Luis Marquez, 25, of Silver Spring, has been identified and arrested by investigators from the Prince George’s County Police Department, who charged him with murdering Takoma Park resident Maurice Chase Jr. earlier this year. At approximately 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 20, officers were called to the 6700 block of New Hampshire Avenue in the unincorporated section of Takoma Park, where there was a report of a man injured inside …

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

Obituaries

Widow Calls On Community For Help Hunting Down Husband's Silver Spring Parking Garage Killer Months after 62-year-old Charles Joseph Reynolds was gunned down inside a Montgomery County parking garage, his family, and the police, are still looking for answers. On Wednesday, Dec. 21 last year, what began as a day of celebration for the Reynolds family ended in tragedy in downtown Silver Spring when the father of three was killed by an unknown assailant while bringing leftovers to his car in the garage. TODAY: Chief Jones, Captain Gagen & Karis Hastings, wife of Charles Joseph Reynolds, request the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect(s) in the Wayne Ave. homicide th…

by Zak Failla

05/02/2023

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