Girl sexually assaulted in Northeast D.C.
D.C. police are investigating an armed sexual assault in Northeast Washington.
Police said a man with a gun approached the girl while she was walking on the 5000 block of Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, forced her into a nearby alley and sexually assaulted her. Police did not give further details about the assault.
Authorities did not release the victim’s age, only describing her as a female juvenile. The suspect is described as a black man with a light complexion, about 5-feet 8-inches tall, 220 pounds and having a stocky build. He was bald, had a gap in his teeth and a gray beard. The man was wearing a gray sweat suit.
Mortgage broker sentenced for fraud
A Bethesda mortgage broker was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for defrauding lenders and his family members out of more than $1.4 million.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake ordered 42-year-old Douglas Skibicki to serve two years and nine months behind bars. Prosecutors say he duped lenders and relatives through a series of fraudulent real estate transactions between April 2006 and August 2009.
Man rescued from mud in Clinton
Emergency crews rescued a worker from waist-deep mud in Clinton.
Authorities were called to Cosca Lake in Cosca Regional Park shortly before noon Thursday after a man working on renovations near the lake got stuck in mud and sunk, according to Prince George’s County fire and emergency services. The department’s technical rescue team dug away the top layer of mud, then lifted him up.
The fire department said the man was wearing waterproof wading pants, which prevented the mud from compressing his legs. The man was not injured, authorities said. He had been in the mud for about an hour.
— Emily Babay
