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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

Schools

Two Minors Tied To Towson High School Threats In Baltimore; One Charged, One Pending: Police Authorities say that a pair of minors are responsible for the recent threats made targeting Towson High School in Baltimore as they sought to incriminate an uninvolved juvenile. The Baltimore County Police Department announced on Saturday, Dec. 10 that the agency has brought closure to the threat investigation made at the high school and determined that no students, faculty, or staff members were ever in danger. Detectives said that they have identified and charged a juvenile suspect with multiple recent threatening messages targeting Towson High School, and charges are pending against a s…

by Zak Failla

12/10/2022

News

Former Baltimore City Assistant State's Attorney Admits To Obtaining Phone Records, Stalking Ex Former Baltimore City Assistant State's Attorney Adam Lane Chaudry has reached a plea agreement admitting that he obtained confidential phone records to stalk two romantic partners, federal officials announced. Chaudry, 43, pleaded guilty on Friday, Dec. 9 to two counts of fraud in connection with obtaining confidential phone records, admitting that he committed the crime knowing the information could be used in furtherance and with the intent to commit stalking. Between June 2009 and June 18, 2021, prosecutors say that Chaudry caused three grand jury subpoenas to be sent to a telecommunica…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

Lifestyle

Oh Deer! Police In Maryland Searching For Buck Burglars On The Loose Police in Maryland are on the lookout for a white-tailed buck that has gone missing from a Cecil County butcher shop. The Maryland Natural Resources Police issued an alert regarding a white-tailed buck that was seemingly stolen from the Harmony Ridge Butcher Shop in Cecil County by sticky-fingered suspects. Investigators say that at approximately 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, a hunter dropped off the white-tailed buck at the butcher, and employees said that it was hung up in the shop’s refrigerated cold box and seen two hours later. The following morning, at approximately 6 a.m. on Saturday, …

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

Obituaries

Community Rallies Around Maryland Firefighter Who Leaves Behind Wife, Two Young Children The community is mourning Frederick County firefighter Zachary Paris after he was killed in the line of duty battling a three-alarm fire while volunteering for his hometown department in New Tripoli in Pennsylvania. Paris was living his lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter at the time of his death after graduating from the fire academy on Saturday, Sept. 10 to join the Frederick County Fire & Rescue family after spending more than a decade volunteering for the New Tripoli Fire Department, where he achieved the rank of First Assistant Chief. Original story - Rookie Frederick Count…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

Schools

Middle School Student Could Face Charges For Marijuana Edibles In Charles County, Sheriff Says A Maryland middle school student is not flying high after being busted by officials with marijuana-laced edibles that he intended to sell to his classmates, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced. On Friday, Dec. 9, School Resource Officers at Matthew Henson Middle School were tipped off that a student - whose name has not been released - was in possession of edibles containing suspected Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS), believed to be marijuana, and was bringing them to school to sell them. According to the sheriff's office, the Resource Officer was able to track down the suspe…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

News

Four In Virginia Accused Of Forcing Undocumented Immigrants Into Labor At Laundry Facility Four people in Virginia are facing charges for alleged labor trafficking, forced labor, and immigration offenses in connection to a laundry facility they operated, federal authorities announced. A 33-count indictment has been unsealed charging four in the region for defrauding and committing offenses against the US, including human trafficking from Central America, money laundering, benefiting from forced labor, and harboring undocumented immigrants, according to the Department of Justice. Those charged with engaging in a conspiracy to harbor, transport, and benefit from the work of non-cit…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

Police & Fire

Decomposing Pregnant Woman's Body Found Inside Maryland Murder Suspect's Apartment: Police Police investigators in Maryland made a ghastly discovery on Thursday night as they were investigating a Montgomery County murder after a gas station store clerk was found gunned down in Silver Spring, authorities say. First responders investigating the murder of 61-year-old Ayalew Wondimu on Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Shell Station (Dash In Convenience Store) in the 11100 block of New Hampshire Avenue were able to Silver Spring resident Torrey Moore as a murder suspect, according to police. However, when detectives executed a search warrant at Moore’s apartment in connection to the murde…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

News

Gang Leader, Top Lieutenant In Baltimore Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Violent Conspiracy The leader of the Baltimore Eight Tray Gangster Crips will spend decades in prison for operating a racketeering and drug conspiracy that included three homicides and multiple other gang-related shootings, federal officials announced. Trayvon Hall - also known as “Tru,” and “G Tru,” 31, of Baltimore, was sentenced to 454 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for racketeering and drug conspiracy charges related to his activities as the leader of the Eight Tray Gangster (ETG) Crips gang. Another ETG Crips member, Marcus Williams, also known as “Gangsta C,” and …

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

News

Serial Bank Robber Who Repeatedly Violated Supervised Release In Maryland Sentenced: DOJ A serial bank robber who was serving out the final months of her sentence for a previous offense in Maryland couldn’t help but get back to her old ways and will spend decades behind bars after being busted targeting branches in Montgomery County. Christopher Michael Cline, also known as “Carisa Cline,” 46, of Gaithersburg, has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to bank robbery and admitting to violating terms of her release for previous federal bank robbery convictions, prosecutors announced. According to the pl…

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

Lifestyle

'Ruff Times: Dogs Dropped Off At HQ, Deer Rescued Within 24 Hours In Prince George's County Members of the Prince George's County Fire Department had a curious 24 hours as they came to the aid and rescue of several adorable animals who found themselves in tough spots. On Wednesday, Dec. 7, a pair of pups were unexpectedly dropped off at Station 845 in Croom by a concerned citizen who found them in the area, according to the agency. The dogs were scanned by the department's Prince George's County SPCA chip reader, though it did not provide any information about the dogs’ possible owners. Once the duo was settled in, the dogs were taken into custody by the Prince George's County …

by Zak Failla

12/09/2022

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