Coach admits to child porn
A 52-year-old man who taught and coached field hockey at a private Montessori elementary school in Montgomery County pleaded guilty Tuesday to receiving child pornography. John Joseph Kovach Jr., who worked at Mater Amoris Montessori School in Ashton and was an assistant coach at Towson University, had computer images and videos of children under 12 engaging in sexual and sadistic conduct, prosecutors said. Police discovered the images last year after receiving information from an investigator in California that a Maryland man was engaging young girls in sexually explicit conversations over the Internet. Kovach, a member of the 1980 national men’s field hockey team, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Two killed in Prince George’s
Two people were shot and killed in a car early Tuesday morning in Landover, Prince George’s County police said. At about 3:35 a.m., police responded to a report of gunshots fired at the intersection of East Spring Street and East Marlboro Avenue. When they arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds sitting inside a four-door Mitsubishi, police said.
