The Blotter

Published January 3, 2012 5:00am ET



Serial rapist gets 50 more years

 

A man convicted of four sexual assaults, including two in Montgomery County, was sentenced to 50 more years in prison for another rape near Hagerstown.

Pov Srun, a 41-year-old Cambodian immigrant, pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping another woman near Smithsburg in 1998, after he had been linked to the crime by DNA evidence, according to the Hagerstown Herald-Mail.

Srun admitted to hiding in the backseat of the woman’s vehicle and forcing her to drive to baseball field, where he bound the woman’s hands with duct tape and taped her sunglasses to her face before raping her.

Srun is currently serving 35 years for sexually assaulting a woman in Rockville and another in Bethesda in 2005. A bystander broke up the Bethesda attack and was able to get the license number of Srun’s vehicle. DNA evidence at the time linked him to two other rapes in Pennsylvania.

One teen arrested in another’s slaying

Prince George’s County police have arrested a teenager in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old in Fort Washington last summer.

Marquis Desean Foster, 19, was charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Marquis Davis, who was killed June 20 in the 11100 block of John Paul Jones Avenue. Davis, 16, of Clinton, was found dead in the street.

Police said they developed Foster as a suspect and arrested him Monday at his Fort Washington home without incident. He remained held without bond on Tuesday.

Man arrested in connection with shooting into homes

A man has been arrested in an incident in which Prince William County police say he was aiming at one home but also struck a neighboring home.

The shooting happened in June, and police said they recently solved the case. Twenty-year-old Richard James Ocksrider, of Nokesville, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of shooting into an occupied dwelling and one count of malicious wounding.

— Scott McCabe