Police check sniper claims
Montgomery County police are investigating D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo’s claims that he and his partner had additional victims across the country.
In a TV interview with William Shatner last week, psychiatrist Neil Blumberg said Malvo told him he had participated in at least 42 shootings. Montgomery County police spokeswoman Lucille Baur said authorities were only aware of 27 shootings attributable to Malvo and fellow shooter John Allen Muhammad.
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Baur says county police have been the lead agency in the sniper investigations and feel they have a responsibility to look into the truth of Malvo’s claims.
Teens charged with hate crime
Takoma Park police arrested two teenagers on hate crime charges in connection with an attack on two victims early Tuesday.
About 2:30 a.m., twomen were pulling out of the parking lot of a restaurant on the 7400 block of New Hampshire Avenue when they were harassed about their sexual orientation by a group of about seven males and two females. Police said one culprit reached inside the vehicle and punched one of the victims.
The victims left the area and called police and noticed that the hood of the car had been damaged. Police drove back to the restaurant with the victims, who identified the alleged attackers.
Police charged Leo Connel, 18, and a 16-year-old boy from Takoma Park with simple assault and malicious destruction of property motivated by hate.
Md. horse owners sentenced
A husband and wife will spend time in a Maryland jail for fatally neglecting one of their horses, reports The Daily Record of Baltimore.
A Baltimore judge sentenced Hilton Silver to 60 days and his wife, Donna Silver, to 30 days. The judge also ordered the couple to pay the county $16,000 for its care of two other horses removed from their home in 2009.
– Compiled by Scott McCabe
