The Blotter

Published May 3, 2012 4:00am ET



Doctor sentenced in P.G. corruption

A Maryland doctor was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for his part in an extortion conspiracy involving disgraced former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson.

Dr. Mirza Hussain Baig, 68, of Burtonsville, who was also a developer, was one of 15 people convicted in the years-long federal investigation into public corruption in Prince George’s County.

Baig admitted to providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, campaign contributions, and other things of value to Jack Johnson and others in exchange for millions of dollars in grants, acquiring county property and land, finding people jobs, obtaining permits and other favors.

Dog bites infant 30 times

An infant boy remains hospitalized after he was bitten more than 30 times by the family dog, according to the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office.

A family member found the Jack Russell terrier biting the infant in the boy’s bassinet at about 5 p.m. Tuesday in the family’s home in Amissville. The boy, who was less than one month old, was flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church.

Sheriff’s deputies said the father reportedly shot and killed the dog immediately after the attack.

Mother gets 18 months for barricading kids

A Prince William County mother was sentenced Thursday to a year and a half behind bars for using drywall to barricade her three young children inside a room containing feces and urine.

Christina Moore, and John Robey, 34, of Bristow, were charged in March 2011, after the oldest girl, then 4, was able to escape and run to a neighbor’s home for help.

A neighbor found Moore and Robey passed out with drug paraphernalia around their room, police said.

In 2005, Moore lost custody of twin 22-month-old sons after the boys were found on the side of Route 234 in Dumfries.