Air traffic controller guilty in wife’s murder
A former U.S. Navy air traffic controller was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife.
Ryan Holness, 30, of St. Mary’s County, faces up to life in prison in the death of Serika Dunkley Holness who was found stabbed to death in Kent County in June 2009. Holness claimed that the couple had been kidnapped and he had been kicked in the head and blacked out.
Early a.m. slaying might
be linked to bar fights
Homicide detectives are investigating a possible link between an early morning killing in Capitol Heights and fights at a nightclub, Prince George’s County police said.
At around 3:30 a.m. Monday, police responded to a report of a shooting at a gas station at Ritchie Road and Central Avenue and discovered 20-year-old Brian Vincent Cooper, of D.C., suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Cpl. Erica Johnson said the man, whose identify has not yet been released, had been at the MSG club in the 9400 block of Central Avenue earlier in the night. There had been several altercations at the nightclub before the shooting, she said.
Bad beetle intercepted in Md.
Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Baltimore discovered a highly invasive wood-boring beetle aboard a crate sent from China.
The brown fir longhorned beetle poses a threat to some trees and landscape plants, and forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to suspend imports of certain wooden crafts from China in 2005.
The beetle arrived inside a container of crafts and was found March 17. A USDA entomologist confirmed the discovery over the weekend. It was the first brown fir longhorned beetle discovered in the Port of Baltimore.
– Scott McCabe
