Man admits to robberies, shooting in NE A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a series of armed robberies and a shooting along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor in Northwest Washington.
Ryan Collins, of District Heights, faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison.
The robberies and shooting happened around Friendship Heights and the National Cathedral.
The three crimes occurred within 90 minutes of each other on Dec. 4 and initially went unreported. Police only learned about them when the shooting victim walked into a Montgomery County hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest, police said.
Feds: Child porn found in insider trading probe
Federal investigators say child pornography was found on a computer of a man charged in March in an insider trading scheme, according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Andrew Liang and his father engaged in a $2.27 million insider trading scheme by using the Food and Drug Adminstration’s internal tracking system to determine whether drug applications would be approved and then used that information to buy securities issued by companies with pending applications. Authorities searching a laptop computer belonging to Liang found “several images” of suspected child pornography, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in federal court in Greenbelt. The affidavit says the computer had a folder with explicit photographs of young girls. Liang is the son of FDA chemist Cheng Yi Liang, who was also accused by prosecutors of involvement in the insider trading scheme.
Suspect calls police in deadly Germantown stabbing
Police say a suspect is in custody after a Germantown man was stabbed to death.
Kevin A. Mbayo, 22, was found with a stab wound to his torso inside in a townhouse on the 13000 block of Country Ridge Drive shortly before 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to Montgomery County police. He was taken to Suburban Hospital, where he died. Police said the suspect, James E. Biddinger, 27, of Germantown, fled from the scene and called police from a nearby shopping center. Officers arrived at the center and took Biddinger into custody without incident.
– Scott McCabe and Emily Babay
