Crips-related gang figure sentenced
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A second member of a subset of the Crips gang was sentenced to prison for assaulting a man trying to intervene in what police believe was a gang initiation fight for the man's younger brother. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela L. North on Thursday gave Jessie Mark Webster, 20, of Millersville a similar sentence to the one she handed down last week to the Rolling 60s leader who ordered the attack. Webster was sentenced to seven years in prison, four of them suspended, followed by five years of probation, according to court records. Last week, North sentenced Jeffrey J. Holbrook, 21, to serve four years of a seven-year prison sentence for ordering Webster to assault Richard Koontz when he tried to stop a Sept. 4, 2008, fight between Koontz's brother and a man identified only as Jimmy.
- Andrea F. Siegel
Warrants issued for 2 in Arundel stabbings
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Anne Arundel County police have issued arrest warrants for two Baltimore men in the June 13 stabbing of three men, police said Friday. Jesus Marcias Salazar, 41, and Juan Martinez Hernandez, 23, both of the 7900 block of Lansdale Road in Baltimore, are still at large. Hernandez is charged with attempted second-degree murder, police said. Both men are charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and weapons charges, police said. Three Columbia men were stabbed when a fight broke out after a soccer game. The victims told police that several assailants injured them with pocket knives before running away. Two victims suffered cuts to their legs; one was cut in the abdomen. All were treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and released the next day, police said. Two other men are being sought.
- Olivia Bobrowsky
Murderer professes innocence during sentencing hearing
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James Dinkins, who was convicted this month of two murders, professed his innocence Friday in Maryland federal court, yelling, "I didn't kill nobody, never did, never will," shortly after the jury left the courtroom. Dinkins and co-defendant Melvin Gilbert are in the sentencing phase of their trial; each man could be sentenced to death. A clinical social worker had just finished testifying about Dinkins' childhood, which included suicide attempts and multiple commitments to juvenile facilities. After she left the stand and the jury left the room, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz inquired whether Dinkins wanted to testify. Dinkins said he was there only because he refused to lie about Gilbert and help the government. Jurors will hear closing arguments June 29.
- Tricia Bishop
