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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

Police & Fire

Englewood Laborer Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Child On Multiple Occasions: Prosecutor An investigation into claims of sexual assault involving a child over the course of years in Bergen County led to the arrest of a 41-year-old laborer, authorities said. Englewood's Carlos Quintero-Lopera is in police custody following an investigation into allegations of abuse involving a child who was between the ages of 11 and 16 years old, authorities announced on Thursday, Feb. 9, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The arrest came hours after the Englewood Police Department contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office regarding the alleged sexual abuse of a child on Wednesda…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

News

Attack On Congresswoman In DC Apartment Building 'Not Politically Motivated:' Chief Of Staff A Minnesota Congresswoman is recovering after being assaulted in the elevator of her Washington, DC apartment building, her Chief of Staff said on Thursday. Rep. Angie Craig was reportedly attacked on Thursday, Feb. 9 inside the building, but was able to fend off her assailant and report the incident to the Metropolitan Police Department. According to a police report, Craig reported seeing her alleged attacker in the lobby acting erratically before the assault. She reportedly said “good morning” to the man before entering the elevator to go to her apartment. The man then entered the same …

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

News

DC Rapper 'No Savage' Pleads Guilty To Tyson Corner Center Mall Shooting A DC-based rapper is facing a potentially “savage" sentence after pleading guilty on Thursday afternoon to multiple felonies after opening fire inside the Tysons Corner Center Mall over Father’s Day Weekend last summer. Noah Settles, who is better known by his stage name “No Savage,” pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 9, to three counts of maliciously discharging a firearm in an occupied building and using a firearm in the commission of a felony, Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano announced. Related story - Video Shows Tysons Corner Mall Shooting Suspect In Argument Before Shots …

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

Police & Fire

Cows Safe, Workshop Destroyed By Two-Alarm Fire At Kilby Farm In Cecil County A fast-moving two-alarm fire tore through a hay storage workshop at Kilby Farms in Cecil County on Thursday morning that sent some scared cows scurrying across a field. First responders from multiple agencies were called shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9 to the farm on Firetower Road in Colora, when an employee reported that a blaze had broken out inside the building. It took a team of more than six dozen firefighters from the Water Witch Volunteer Fire Company and surrounding departments approximately two hours to get the fire under control, though not before it caused an estimate…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

Police & Fire

Elderly Waldwick Man Busted For Prepubescent Child Porn: Bergen County Prosecutor The investigation into a 79-year-old man led to child pornography charges for a retiree in Bergen County who was busted with sexually explicit images of prepubescent and other children, authorities announced. Waldwick's John Campbell has been arrested for his alleged possession and distribution of child pornography following an investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office led by Chief Jason Love. Members of the prosecutor’s office’s Cyber Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at Campbell’s Waldwick home on Thursday, Feb. 9, investigators said, which led to the discovery that Campb…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

News

School Bus Driver In MD Responsible For Sexually Abusing Special Needs Passengers: Prosecutors Prosecutors say that a school bus driver in Montgomery County who drove special education students was found criminally responsible for sexually abusing four girls on his route following a lengthy investigation. Gaithersburg resident Etienne Kabongo, 67, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday, Feb. 9 to multiple counts of rape and sexual abuse of a minor after one of his victims came forward and several other victims were identified during the investigation. A driver for Montgomery County Public Schools, officials said that one of Kabongo’s victims came forward following an incident in July…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

News

Brother-Sister Duo Cop To Selling Fentanyl-Laced Pills To Woman With Previous OD In DC It was a family affair for a brother-sister duo who admitted to selling fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of a 20-year-old woman in 2021 in Washington, DC. Larry Jerome Eastman, 22, of Temple Hills, and his sister, DC resident Justice Michelle Eastman, 26, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl following the death of a known drug user, federal authorities announced. Prosecutors said that the Eastmans were linked to the fatal overdose when investigators reviewed their victim’s phone following…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

Police & Fire

Teen Shooter In Custody Months After Fatal DC Shooting: MPD More than seven months after 23-year-old Markel Ford was gunned down in Washington, DC, police say that they found his shooter. On Thursday, Feb. 9, investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department announced that members of the Capitol Area Regional Task Force (CARFTF) located and arrested an 18-year-old suspect from Northeast, DC, who has been identified as the murder suspect. The teen - who was a juvenile at the time, so his name will not be released - was charged with first-degree murder while armed. Shortly before 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, June 26, 2022, officers responded to the 500 …

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

Police & Fire

Woman Kidnapped, Robbed At Gunpoint In Broad Daylight While Walking Along DC Road, Police Say Two suspects who took a woman and robbed her at gunpoint in broad daylight on a DC street are wanted by investigators with the Metropolitan Police Department. Detectives from the MPD’s Third District are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a wanted man and woman who targeted a woman walking along the road in the 1500 block of Park Road in Northwest DC. At approximately 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, investigators say that a man and woman approached their victim on Park Road in a vehicle, at which point one brandished a handgun and instructed her into their minivan. The victim compli…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

Police & Fire

'Not Random' Shooting In Charles County Leaves Teen Hospitalized: Sheriff Gunshots rang out in the middle of the afternoon in Charles County on Wednesday, leaving a teen boy with a gunshot wound in an apparently targeted attack. Shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, a spokesperson for the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said that officers responded to a home in Albermarle Place in Waldorf to investigate a reported shooting involving a 14-year-old boy who was struck in the leg. According to the sheriff’s office, the preliminary investigation into the shooting determined that the teen was walking in the area of Abermarle Place when unknown suspects fired a gun…

by Zak Failla

02/09/2023

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