MoCo lawyer gets 5 years for asylum scheme

A Silver Spring lawyer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for preparing false asylum applications for immigrants seeking to stay in the United States. A jury convicted Patrick Tzeuton in February and prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte on Wednesday to impose a prison term of 64 months. Tzeuton has been jailed since his conviction. Prosecutors say Tzeuton, who is from Cameroon and worked with many clients from West Africa, authorized fraudulent filings and coached... More

Utz potato chip stand evicted from Lexington Market

Lexington Market Inc. filed a suit against a stand and its owners, one of whom was busted for selling guns to gangs. More  Read More →

Md. man charged with human trafficking

An Anne Arundel County man has been charged with human trafficking after an undercover officer answered an online ad for erotic services. More  Read More →

Mount St. Mary’s student at fault in jogging death

Police say a Mount St. Mary’s University student was improperly running in a traffic lane when she was struck and killed by a pickup truck near the campus in Emmitsburg. More  Read More →

Navy midshipman gets 15 months for thefts

A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman has been sentenced to 15 months of confinement and was dismissed from the Navy after pleading guilty to more than two dozen instances of theft. More  Read More →

Neb. inmate can’t name himself ‘Sinner Bilskirnir’

A judge has rejected a request from a prison inmate who, for religious reasons, sought to change his name to "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir." More  Read More →

White man’s burden? Discrimination suits flourish

The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation’s highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was white. More  Read More →

In Florida, the sun is far brighter than the criminals

People tell us how much they love to read about strange laws, stupid criminals and odd events. That’s why we have the Uncommon Law feature above this one. Having worked for newspapers there, I can imagine Florida having its own space for such stories. Someone beat us to that idea, though. More  Read More →

Bartender‘s brain surgery dreams down the drain

William Pressler was a college student who dreamed of becoming a brain surgeon. But a stroke of bad luck, some alcohol and – he asserts – actor Jamie Foxx shattered his dream More  Read More →

Child abuse suspect found dead

Howard County police say a man wanted for child sexual abuse has been found dead in New Carrollton. More  Read More →

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