Pr. George’s police search for armed robber
Prince George’s County police are searching for a man armed with a handgun who has robbed four Greenbelt and Beltsville stores in the middle of the day.
The most recent robbery was Friday, when the man robbed a Shell gas station and fled in a dark-colored Lincoln Navigator, police said. The man first appeared July 17, when he robbed a Greenbelt Kmart. He popped up again last week, striking a BP gas station in Beltsville on Tuesday, a Greenbelt Extra Fuel Wednesday and the Shell on Friday.
The robber is between 27 and 35 years old and of average height. He’s black and wears a white Gucci hat.
Anyone with information should call Prince George’s County police at 301-772-4905.
Temple Hills man pleads guilty in $100K check scheme
Chamarko Amin, 37, pleaded guilty to making fake Maryland driver’s licenses so his co-conspirators could cash more than $100,000 in stolen U.S. Treasury checks, prosecutors said.
The scheme, which ran from April 2006 to May 2007, victimized more than 50 people and businesses, court documents said.
Amin, of Temple Hills, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 23.
Mexican authorities capture accused Fairfax wife killer
Jose Luis Cruz, 53, was captured in Cholula, Mexico, 1 1/2 years after police say he stabbed his estranged wife to death.
Cruz, of Fairfax, had been on the run since December 2007, when police found Matilde Cruz, 57, stabbed to death in her car. He was tracked down by U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities in July and arrived in Fairfax on Thursday, police said.
Two die in Md. when small plane crashes
A man and a woman were killed when their small plane crashed in Carroll County shortly after takeoff, Maryland State Police said.
Friends Robert Kociemba, 61, and 66-year-old Letty Williams were flying the two-seat plane when it crashed near Taneytown, police said. The crash’s cause is under investigation.
Compiled by Freeman Klopott
