D.C. tax office employee admits to $400,000 theft
A former D.C. tax office employee pleaded guilty to stealing $414,000 in a fraudulent refund scheme.
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Mary Ayers-Zander, of College Park, admitted to stealing the money from the Office of Tax and Revenue in February 2007 — about the same time that D.C. tax office manager Harriette Walters’ 20-year, $50 million theft scheme was unraveling.
Ayers-Zander, 47, pleaded to wire fraud and faces three to five years in prison, prosecutors said..
Ayers-Zander admitted to several scams. She fraudulently credited $365,000 to the taxpayer accounts of several people and wired the money to her own personal bank accounts in 48 separate transfers, documents said. She also credited the accounts of other individuals and wired $46,000 in fraudulent refunds to those individuals.
Teen charged in deadly hit-and-run
A Riverdale teenager has been charged with intentionally running over a D.C. man in Petworth.
Sixteen-year-old Christian Navarette-Rivas was arrested and charged as an adult Thursday with second-degree murder while armed in the death of Miguel Angel Drullard Jr., 22.
Police said Drullard was killed in the 4400 block of 14th Street NW by a driver of a red or burgundy Jeep Liberty. The vehicle then took off. Witnesses told police that Drullard had been fighting with other men before he was run over.
Body found in burning SUV
Prince George’s County police are investigating the discovery of a body inside a burning sport utility vehicle in Forestville.
About 1 a.m. Thursday, police and fire units were called to a vehicle on fire in the 2900 block of Kaverton Road. Once the fire was put out, a body was found inside.
Police do not have any information about the person found in the vehicle, which police have described as possibly a Chevrolet Suburban. Police have not determined whether the death is a homicide.
— Scott McCabe
