Pennsylvania pol charged with Baltimore rape kills self

Published December 23, 2008 5:00am ET



The Pennsylvania politician accused of posing as a cop and raping a woman in southeast Baltimore committed suicide Monday in upstate New York, federal marshals said.

Michael L. Johnson, 40, the president of Penn Township’s Board of Commissioners and an ex-Pennsylvania state trooper, killed himself at about 10:30 a.m. in Cohoes, about 10 miles north of Albany, the marshals said in a statement.

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