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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

Zak Failla's Contributions

Police & Fire

Second 'Traveler' Targeted Teen For Sex In Maryland Within One Week, Sheriff Says Another sexual predator is behind bars in Frederick County after preying on a teenage girl online, authorities announced on Friday. Middle River resident Brian Williams, 37, is facing a host of charges after being caught by investigators after they were tipped off about a 15-year-old girl who was sexually involved with a grown man. During the investigation, members of the Frederick County Sheriff's Office uncovered multiple messages that showed Williams soliciting the teen for sexual acts, the two exchanging explicit images, and he had sex with the girl in Frederick County, according to off…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Police & Fire

Maryland Fraudsters Hit With 65 Charges Following Bust At Virginia Apple Store: Police A group of fraudsters from Maryland tried their luck one too many times and found themselves behind bars, unable to enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gains in Fairfax County. On Friday, the Fairfax County Police Department announced that three people have been hit with a total of 65 criminal charges after finally being busted attempting to use stolen credit cards at the Apple Store in Tysons Corner. Those charged: Jose Angel Santos, 20, of Hyattsville; Juan Jose Ruiz Leiva, 21, of Riverdale; Genesis Flores Caceres, 18, of Hyattsville. Earlier this week, detectives were aler…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

News

Three Shot Leaving Prince George's County Funeral While Riding In Van, Police Say (Developing) A day of mourning turned tragic for a family after a shooting outside a Maryland cemetery on Friday afternoon. Officers from the Prince George's County Police Department were called to a stretch of Sheriff Road in Landover at around 2 p.m. on Friday, not far from the National Harmony Memorial Park cemetery. Police say that three adults were shot while driving in a van that was leaving a funeral. They were all treated and evaluated for injuries considered not to be life-threatening. The search for the shooting suspect is ongoing. While officers canvas the area, Sheriff Road is closed …

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Police & Fire

Wanted Man Parking In Handicapped Spots Spits On Arresting Deputy In VA, Sheriff Says Parking in handicap spots across Virginia landed a spitting mad suspect behind bars after he became unruly with a member of the Stafford County Sheriff's Office. Alhagi Conteh is no longer boasting about his parking situation after being busted on a warrant when a deputy from the sheriff's office who noticed that the Woodbridge resident's vehicle was parked in a handicap spot at 7-Eleven in Fredericksburg. At around 8:20 p.m. on Thursday night, a deputy was called to the convenience store on Warrenton Road to investigate a separate incident, but instead, Conteh's illegally parked vehicle c…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

News

Former CO Who Fell For Inmate Sentenced For Smuggling Contraband For BF Into Maryland Facility An ill-fated romance landed a former corrections officer in Maryland in hot water after conspiring with her inmate boyfriend to smuggle drugs into a Prince George's County facility. Waldorf resident Danielle Dominique Smith, 34, will spend time on the other side of the bars after being sentenced to four months in prison, followed by four months of home detention after she was in an intimate and sexual relationship with an inmate who smuggled contraband into the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections Detention Facility. According to her guilty plea, between November 2009 and A…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Police & Fire

Teen Rams Into Police Vehicle With Stolen Volkswagen Before Fleeing In Maryland Two wanted car thieves took police on quite a ride overnight in Maryland after ramming a detective's vehicle and attempting to flee in Anne Arundel County. Police say that a 17-year-old from Baltimore was driving Glen Burnie resident Nicholas Thomas Battle, 20, near the intersection of Elvaton Road and Tall Pines Court when officers spotted their 2023 Volkswagen Taos, which had been previously reported out of Montgomery County. The ordeal began at around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16 in the Western District. According to a spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department, detect…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Traffic

Traffic JAM: Crashes Cause Miles-Long Backup On I-95 In Virginia Traffic was temporarily tied up on Friday morning on I-95 as crews cleared up two crashes that were reported miles apart in Stafford County. As of noon on Friday, Nov. 17, crews were still working to investigate a pair of crashes that backed up traffic for miles in Stafford County, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Traffic on I-95 in Stafford on Friday. Virginia DOT One crash was reported at mile marker 135.6 and the second at mile marker 137.2, they said, both in Stafford County, backing up traffic nearly five miles due to lane closures in both directions. Motor…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Police & Fire

Three Charged With Murder During Botched Robbery In Prince George's County, Police Say Three people have been arrested in connection to the murder of Anthony Day Roberts in Prince George's County last week. Chanel Slaughter, 29, Deandre Wilson, 34, and Joseph Lewis, 36, all of Suitland, have been charged for their alleged roles in Day's death after he was found shot to death on Wednesday, Nov. 8 in Camp Spring. Police say that at around 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday night, officers responded to the 6300 block of Auth Road in Camp Springs, where they found the 24-year-old Roberts - who was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders - and a second man who sustained non-life-thre…

by Zak Failla

11/17/2023

Police & Fire

Man Attempted To Sexually Assault Woman On Baltimore County Trail, Police Say Police in Baltimore are investigating another attempted sexual assault on a Maryland trail. An alert was issued by the Baltimore Police Department advising that shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, officers were called to the entrance of the Red Run Valley Stream Trail in Owings Mills to probe a reported attempted sexual assault that had just happened. The woman involved said that she was approached by a Black man with a thin build who was between 18 and 25 years old, standing between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9 at around 8:15 a.m. and attempted to assault her sexually. Investigators sp…

by Zak Failla

11/16/2023

Police & Fire

Home Torched By Burning Rug In Maryland; Homeowner Displaced: State Fire Marshal A Washington County home was gutted on Thursday afternoon after a homeowner accidentally set a rug ablaze in Hancock, fire officials say. Dozens of firefighters from the Hancock Volunteer Fire Department were called shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday to a home in the 4900 block of Casper Road, where there was a fast-moving fire reported in the area. According to investigators, the homeowner was attempting to burn fringes from a rug that was sitting on a plastic container, and when he walked away, he heard a noise coming from the back of the deck, where he found the porch on fire and called 91…

by Zak Failla

11/16/2023

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