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Published February 15, 2022 at 5:31PM | Updated February 15, 2022 at 6:15PM

On February 7^th, in the District Court for Montgomery County, MD, Judge Sherri Koch sentenced defendant, Kyhree Gardner, 18, of Silver Spring, to 5-years suspend, all but 9-months in prison, and three years of probation upon release.

Staff at Burnt Mills Elementary School found a school laptop bag containing a ghost gun near the basketball court after hours on October 20^th 2021. The defendant was playing basketball at the time and was later arrested after staff contacted police and an investigation ensued.

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Woman Sentenced to 6 Years in DUI Crash That Took The Life of Two Gaithersburg Grandparents

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Published February 4, 2022 at 11:36AM | Updated February 5, 2022 at 9:19AM

Judge David Lease sentenced Rebecca Vo to six years (20 years suspend all but 6) and five-years of probation upon release. This stems from a motor vehicle collision on the evening of March 27, 2021 at Darnestown Rd. and Blackberry Drive in Gaithersburg, MD.

She pleaded guilty to two counts gross negligent manslaughter by vehicle for the deaths of Pran and Pamela Sharma and is facing a maximum of six years per a plea agreement which was reached in consultation with the State and the family of the victims.

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Man Charged With Using Vehicle to Murder His Wife

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Published January 19, 2022 at 1:22PM

A 59-year-old woman, Alka Himanshu Tanna, died after her husband, Himanshu Maganlal Tanna, intentionally struck her with his vehicle in a Silver Spring bank parking lot last Friday, January 14.

At yesterday’s bond hearing, based on a recommendation from pre-trial services, Judge Sherri Koch ordered a court diagnostic (mental evaluation) and postponed bail review until January 25th.

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Man Found Guilty in Execution-Style Double Murder That Occurred in 2018

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Published December 20, 2021 at 5:21PM

After a nine-day trial and nine hours of deliberations, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, before the Honorable Judge David Lease, a jury has found defendant Gregory Jones, 28, of Martinsburg, WV, guilty of first-degree murder for the deaths of Ashley Dickinson and Joshua Frazier in Burtonsville, MD. He faces two potential life sentences plus an additional 40 years. Sentencing is scheduled for March 25, 2022.

Assistant State’s Attorneys Marybeth Ayers and James Dietrich prosecuted this case.

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Serial Rapist Sentenced to 20 Years

By MCS Staff

Published December 17, 2021 at 3:07PM | Updated December 17, 2021 at 9:22PM

“This defendant preyed on innocent women in our community. We thank Judge Bonifant for imposing a 20 year prison sentence and a lifetime on the sex offender registry. Hopefully this brings much deserved peace to the victims who bravely shared their stories so that the defendant would not be able to hurt anyone else,” said State’s Attorney John McCarthy (in featured photo).

Details of the events can be seen below, per the office of State’s Attorney John McCarthy:

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Rockville Man Pleads Guilty to Murder of His Mother

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Published December 14, 2021 at 3:47PM | Updated December 14, 2021 at 4:07PM

Today in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, before the honorable Judge Harry Storm, defendant Kevin McGuigan, 24, of Rockville, MD, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the death of his mother, Jaclyn McGuigan.

He faces a maximum of life in prison and will be sentenced at a hearing scheduled for January 3^rd at 8:30 a.m.

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Potomac Attorney who Swindled Elderly Woman out of $1.8 Million Sentenced Today

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Published November 29, 2021 at 8:15PM

Today in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, the honorable Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Jonathan David Robbins to 40 years in prison suspend all but 12 and 5 years supervised probation upon release.

A hearing to discuss restitution was scheduled for Feb. 18^th, 2022.

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Man Convicted in Retrial of Killing His Girlfriend’s Husband

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Published November 20, 2021 at 4:10PM

A woman and her boyfriend brutally killed her husband of 50 years in Takoma Park, MD in 2014. They were both convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2017, but the boyfriend’s conviction was reversed on appeal.

The State retried his case and on Thursday night– in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, before the honorable Judge David Boynton, a jury found Hussain Ali Zadeh guilty of second-degree murder for the death of Cecil Brown.

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Man Arrested in Mexico for Montgomery County Murder Enters Guilty Plea

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Published November 1, 2021 at 2:14PM

Today in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, before the honorable Judge Jeannie Cho, defendant Ruel Francis Dempster II, 34, of Silver Spring, entered a guilty plea to the charge of first-degree murder for the death of Alice Dennis, the mother of his children.

Sentencing is scheduled for February 4^th, 2022 and the defendant is expected to receive an agreed upon 40-year prison sentence.