14 arrested on drug charges
Fourteen people were arrested this week on charges that they ran a marijuana and cocaine ring out of a car repair shop in Prince George’s County, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. said.
The 13 men and one woman arrested range in age from 18 to 44 and are from Maryland, Texas, North Carolina, West Virginia and California.
They are accused of distributing drugs from the shop in Clinton throughout the District, Maryland and other states.
2 get prison for false tax returns
Two District men were sentenced to prison for filing false tax returns in a scheme to steal from an employer.
Andrew Novak, 43, and Daniel Feller, 49, admitted that they stole and misapplied more than $2.3 million from Novak’s former employer, identified in court documents as Company K, which provided advertising and media services. The men sent bogus invoices from Feller’s company, Strategic Plus, to Company K, which paid more than $2.3 million. Ninety percent of the check went to Novak and Feller kept about 10 percent for himself, prosecutors said.
Novak filed false tax returns that didn’t report income from the scheme.
He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and Feller was sentenced to eight months.
Arrests made in armed carjacking
Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed Manassas carjacking.
Prince William County police said Marquis B. Holloway, 21, and Bruce D. Johnson, 31, forced a 24-year-old man from his vehicle at gunpoint, hit him in the face and took his cell phone and cash before driving down the street in his vehicle.
The incident occurred on the 8700 block of Stoneridge Drive on Nov. 26 about 5:45 p.m.
Holloway was arrested in Manassas on Monday and Johnson was apprehended Thursday in West Virginia. They knew the victim, police said.
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