Brother of Graham’s chief of staff slain
The 18-year-old younger brother of D.C. Councilman Jim Graham’s chief of staff was shot and killed in Southeast, authorities said. Calvin Lavonne Woodland was found shot multiple times in a parking lot around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said. His older brother, Calvin B. Woodland Jr., was promoted to chief of staff after his predecessor, Ted Loza, was indicted on bribery charges in the fall.
Police: Md. man stole from hikers’ cars
A 41-year-old District Heights man has been accused of breaking into cars in Potomac and used the credit cards he stole at pharmacies and grocery stores Virginia. Police say Oliver Eric Lopez broke into dozens of cars parked along MacArthur Boulevard by hikers of the C&O Canal in Potomac between March and September, and then used the credit cards he stole at CVS pharmacies and Giant grocery stores in Fairfax County.
Former SEC attorney convicted in stock scheme
A federal jury in Alexandria convicted 51-year-old Phillip Offill of securities fraud for his role in a pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme. Offill and others would create companies, then get others to invest in them, pulling out just before the valueless companies plummeted.
Md. cardiologist ordered to pay back $16M in taxes
Pradeep Srivastava was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay back the $16 million he failed to pay in income taxes, prosecutors said. The 50-year-old cardiologist who had offices in Oxon Hill and Greenbelt evaded the income tax in his 1998 and 1999 filings and filed a false return in 2000, authorities said.
Compiled by Freeman Klopott
