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Feds bust Dead Man Inc. gang Twenty-two members of the Dead Man Incorporated prison gang have been indicted on federal racketeering, murder and drug charges, the U.S. attorney for Maryland announced. According to the 27-count indictment, 18 men and four women are members and associates of the Baltimore-based DMI, created in 2000 as a prison gang in Maryland. Prosecutors said Perry “Pops” Roark was the “supreme commander,” and allied the group with another prison gang, the Black Guerrilla Family. The gang is accused of four murders, drug trafficking and extortion. They are accused of smuggling drugs, tobacco, cell phones and other contraband into prisons.
Landscaping bookkeeper pleads to theft of $1.3m
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A former bookkeeper for a landscaping company pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.3 million from his employer. Christopher Cunningham, who fled to Spain in 2010 to avoid facing criminal charges in Montgomery County, was extradited back to the United States earlier this year. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in D.C. to transportation of money taken by fraud. Prosecutors say Cunningham, 44, faces three to nearly four years in prison. Cunningham used the company’s computerized bookkeeping system to write checks to himself or his own creditors, prosecutors said.
D.C. man convicted of killing
A 37-year-old D.C. man was convicted of manslaughter and gun charges in a 2010 slaying. Prosecutors said Katrell Henry fatally shot Laroy Bryant, 31, in a jealous rage outside a home on Hartford Street SE because Bryant was seeing Henry’s former girlfriend.
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