Adoptive mother gets nine years for abuse
A Silver Spring woman who beat and locked her 12-year-old adoptive daughter in a room was sentenced to nine years in prison. Police said Hyacinth Morgan, 48, tied the girl and beat her before locking her up in a basement room. Police learned of the abuse after the girl escaped and was found wandering the streets after midnight with bruises on her face and no shoes.
Doctor owed $16 million in taxes
A Potomac cardiologist was convicted of not paying more than $16 million in income taxes. Pradeep Srivastava, 50, who had offices in Greenbelt and Oxon Hill, did not report more than $40 million in profits from stock trading during the late 1990s and filed a false tax return in 2000, prosecutors said. Srivastava faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
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Robbery leads to schools lockdown
Police shut down three Alexandria schools after a man robbed a nearby bank Thursday morning. The robbery occurred shortly after 10 a.m. at the Wachovia bank. A man brandished a firearm, took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled. Authorities locked down T.C. Williams High School, Minnie Howard School and Francis Hammond Middle School. The schools remained on lockdown for about an hour. Police took a man into a custody, but did not immediately identify him.
Teen gets jail for school fires
A Montgomery County teen has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for setting small fires at his school. Prosecutors said Yonata Getachew, 18, and Anthony Torrence, 17, plotted to kill their principal and explode a bomb at Springbrook High School, but later dropped those charges. Torrence was ordered in juvenile court to 100 hours of community service.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe and Freeman Klopott
