Son arrested, charged with murder in father’s homicide
Prince William County police arrested a 22-year-old man who allegedly killed his father during a fist- fight Tuesday morning.
Ryan Stephenson has been charged with murder and is being held without bail after what authorities said was a domestic dispute with his father that became physical on the 6400 block of Davis Ford Road in Manassas.
An autopsy is scheduled today for James Dale Stephenson, 46, who died at the hospital around noon. A Prince William County police spokeswoman said no weapons were involved. – William C. Flook
13 from Md., D.C. indicted in Treasury check theft scheme
A federal grand jury indicted 13 people from Maryland and D.C. in a scheme to steal more than $100,000 in Treasury checks, authorities said.
According to the 53-count indictment that was unsealed Tuesday, Leonard Jenkins, 26, a U.S. Postal Service employee, stole checks from the mail in Baltimore while Chamarkco Amin, 36, of Temple Hills, and Derrick Taylor, 42, of D.C., manufactured fake identification cards to cash the checks, according to prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. – Scott McCabe
Doctor gets prison time for tax evasion, fraud
A Mitchellville doctor was sentenced to more than five years in prison Tuesday for tax evasion and health care fraud, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod Rosenstein said. Between 1997 and 2005, Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, 48, set up sham corporations and falsely reported his tax information, hiding nearly $800,000 from federal and state authorities.
He also billed Medicare for services he never rendered, totaling between $40,000 and $70,000. He provided care in the metropolitan area under a practice named The Okafor Group. – Freeman Klopott
