Alexandria man sentenced for fraud schemes
A Northern Virginia man has been sentenced to nine years and three months in prison for scamming his girlfriend, relatives and others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and improperly accessing national security databases through four separate fraud schemes.
David L. Parker, 50, pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges in February and was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria.
He committed four distinct, wide-ranging scams stretching back to 2006, according to prosecutors and court documents. The fraudulent ploys victimized his grandparents, daughter and girlfriend, involved fictitious investment opportunities and employment contracts with the French government, and breached U.S. government databases.
In total, his relatives, friends and financial institutions lost more than $300,000, court documents say.
Husband, wife identified in murder-suicide
Montgomery County police have identified the husband and wife killed in an apparent murder-suicide in Silver Spring over the weekend.
Police said 49-year-old Donovan D. Richards and 39-year-old Mischeel L. Richards were found dead in their home on the 13600 block of Colgate Way in the Briggs Chaney area at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Officer Janelle Smith, a police spokeswoman, said Wednesday that no ruling had been made on which death was a homicide and which was a suicide. Authorities have not disclosed how they died.
Man charged with impersonating police
An Odenton man is charged with impersonating a police officer after he allegedly pretended to be a detective and made people perform sobriety tests.
Anne Arundel County police allege that 31-year-old Mark Elmer approached at least two groups of people in the parking lot of a Buffalo Wild Wings in Annapolis, displayed a police badge and claimed to be an undercover Anne Arundel officer. He made the victims show identification and demanded that some perform field sobriety tests, police said.
— Emily Babay
