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Deputies arrived on scene and located Dakarai Nivek Milburn, 23 of Prince Frederick, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Life saving measures were attempted, but Milburn was pronounced deceased on the scene.

Deputies arrived on scene and located Dakarai Nivek Milburn, 23 of Prince Frederick, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Life saving measures were attempted, but Milburn was pronounced deceased on the scene.

Jonathan P. Santos, 24 of Marietta, Geogia, was sentenced in Calvert County Circuit Court on March 8, 2024, to 30 years incarceration, with 10 years active, for the crimes of sex abuse of a minor and second-degree rape.

On Thursday, February 22, 2024, Jonathan F. Huffman, 38 of Prince Frederick, was sentenced to 50 years in prison, with 18 years of active incarceration, for sex abuse of a minor and second degree rape.

Cedric Fonta Moore, of Washington, DC, was sentenced in Calvert County Circuit Court to 23 years incarceration, with 9 years active, for his role in the May 2023 robbery of the M&T Bank in Dunkirk. The sentence was imposed by Judge Mark S. Chandlee.

CALVERT COUNTY, Md. — A Reedsville man charged with the murder of a well-known Washington, D.C., area photographer will have to wait another month to learn if he will face a 10-day jury trial. Brandon R. Holbrook, 48, was formally charged with killing Joseph A. Shymanski, of Huntingtown, Md., in early September 2023. A court […]

James Walter Harley, Jr., convicted of First-Degree premeditated murder in Calvert County in 2018, has lost his bid to have his sentence reduced. Harley was convicted of the shooting death of his wife inside the family home in Lusby. The shooting was witnessed by Harley’s 8-year-old son

CALVERT COUNTY, Md. – A Reedsville man charged with the murder of a well-known Washington, D.C., area photographer, could face a 10-day jury trial if a plea agreement is not reached in the near future. Brandon R. Holbrook, 48, was formally charged with killing Joseph A. Shymanski, of Huntingtown, Md., in early September 2023. According […]

In 2023, the State’s Attorney’s Office filed criminal charges in 135 cases in the Circuit Court for Calvert County. Most, if not all, of these cases involved felonies.  In addition, the State prosecuted 70 cases in which a jury trial or appeal had been requested in the District Court, and one case that was transferred from St. Mary’s County, for a total of 206 new Circuit Court prosecutions in 2023.

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