L’Enfant Metro attack
Metro Transit Police are asking for help from anyone who witnessed an assault that occurred inside the L’Enfant Plaza station about 7:15 p.m. Sunday.
A man received minor injuries and declined medical help, according to Metro, but a video of it has raised outrage that no observers intervened.
The transit agency asks customers who witness fights to report them immediately through emergency buttons on trains or station platforms, or by telling a Metro employee.
Anyone with information about Sunday’s assault, should call the Metro Transit Police detectives at 202-962-1792. Transit police will be stepping up patrols at the station, Metro said.
Teacher busted on child porn charges
An elementary school teacher in Anne Arundel County was charged with distribution and possession of child pornography.
Gregory Alan Christy, 39, was arrested at his home in Baltimore and charged with one count of distribution and 10 counts of possession of child pornography. None of the victims in the images have been identified as Anne Arundel residents.
Christy had been a physical education teacher at Rippling Woods Elementary in Glen Burnie.
Newspaper worker sentenced
Elizabeth L. Dura, a former circulation systems assistant at The Washington Times, was sentenced to six months behind bars for stealing $96,000 by generating hundreds of paychecks for “ghost” carriers and teenage hawkers, prosecutors said.
Dura obtained personal identification information for people who no longer worked at the paper or who had never worked at the paper and requested paychecks in their names, according to charging documents. She picked the checks up from the accounting department and cashed them at liquor stores or deposited them into her bank accounts, prosecutors said. In each case, she forged the signature of the person named on the check, charging documents said
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