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Monday, May 13, 2013

New York Pimp Took Woman From Silver Spring Hotel Room

Jeremy Naughton faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for sex trafficking.

A federal jury convicted a New York pimp on Thursday on charges related to sex trafficking, some of which took place in Silver Spring, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. Jeremy Naughton, 32, faces a possible life sentence for his role in coercing women to work as prostitutes, prosectors said in a news release. Naughton "held young women against their will, and used violence, sexual abuse and threats to compel them to work for him as prostitutes,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein in a statement.     Among instances of Naughton coercing women to work as prostitutes locally was an occasion when he forced a woman from her hotel room in Silver Spring on Feb. 8, 2010, forced her to stay with him at his …

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Montgomery County Wins $160K Public Safety Grant

The award was among $6.3 million given to Maryland's state and local governments by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Montgomery County has been awarded $159,701 in federal funding earmarked for violent crime reduction and other public safety activities, Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin announced Thursday. The U.S. Department of Justice grant is one in a $6.3 million bundle given to the state, county, and local governments of Maryland. The county's share will be used to install a system that can deliver video intelligence wirelessly to commanders and operational personnel in an emergency and to develop the capability to share that data with other law enforcement agencies. The grant funding is based on a formula of population and violent crime statistics. Money from the program is used to pay for law enforcement, prosecutions, education, drug …

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jag

12:01 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

"We are surrendering our right to self-government by accepting these funds." LOL, good lord I love Patch.   more ›

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