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.
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Traffic stop leads to arrest
in bank robbery, kidnapping
Virginia State Police said a routine traffic stop led to the capture of two area men wanted in a Tennessee bank robbery. Terence J. Crawley, 27, of Clinton, and Johnathan I. Allen, 24, of Reston, were arrested Monday after a trooper pulled them over in southwestern Virginia for having a missing front tag and for failing to signal, police said. Police found an undisclosed amount of cash, a small amount of marijuana and paraphernalia, and five handguns, police said. The men were charged with being fugitives from justice from Marion County, Tenn., on federal bank robbery and kidnapping charges.
D.C. cop remains in custody
A D.C. police officer facing felony murder charges was ordered to remain behind bars until his trial. Reginald Jones, 40, was accused of serving as a lookout during an attempted robbery in Southeast D.C. last month during which one of the suspects was fatally shot. Five people have been charged in the death.
– Compiled by Scott McCabe
