Man admits to bribe attempt
A Prince George’s County man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to bribe a D.C. tax collector to erase a tax liability owed by his brother’s business.
Haadis Ketema, 45, met the city employee at Union Station and handed $4,000 in cash to the tax collector to change a computer record that would show that Ketema’s brother no longer owed money on a tax liability on his former business, prosecutors said.
Ketema, of Glenarden, faces a likely sentence of six months in prison and fine of $5,000, prosecutors said.
Track coach arrested
A 45-year-old former track coach was arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage boy.
Prince George’s County police said Glen Donell Jones invited the 16-year-old to his District Heights home last month and began to touch the boy inappropriately.
Jones was being held Tuesday on a $200,000 bond.
School bus goes up in flames
Two adults and several children escaped from a bus before it went up in flames in Southeast Washington on Tuesday morning. No one was injured ,but the bus was destroyed.
The D.C. school bus caught fire on the 2700 block of Langston Place around 8 a.m. The vehicle was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.
Trooper reportedly suspended
for alleged domestic dispute
Maryland State Police said a sergeant is suspended without pay amid allegations that he pointed a gun at his former live-in girlfriend, according to the Herald-Mail of Hagerstown.
A lawyer for Timothy McKendrick, 43, said the accusations are false. McKendrick claims Sarah Britton, 24, trespassed after he ordered her out of his house on Aug. 6. He acknowledges that he grabbed his gun in case she showed up armed.
Britton said he pointed the gun at her hip and threatened to shoot unless she left.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
