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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

Lifestyle

Late Mother Helps Lead Son To $50K Lottery Windfall In Maryland Andre Jones' late mother was smiling down on him when the Baltimore native used her favorite digits to claim a $50,000 Maryland Lottery prize. No stranger to numbers, the finance employee had been playing his mom's favorite numbers: 9152 on "Pick 4" games, but after trying his luck (and largely failing), he opted to add a 1 to the mix to play "Pick 5" which he's done only for the past few months. "I kept having that number in my head and decide it was time to play that number again," Jones said. Well, it paid off. Jones was checking his numbers on his phone days after the Monday, Dec. 11 …

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

Police & Fire

Man Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Inside Bathroom Of VA Grocery Store Apprehended, Police Say Just days after a search was launched for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a teen boy in the bathroom of a grocery story in Prince William County, police say they've arrested a suspect. Diego Honorato Valencia, 43, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault following an incident last weekend when he accosted a 15-year-old boy who was quick to alert his family, authorities announced. Officers were called to Food Lion on Dillingham Square in Woodbridge to investigate a reported sexual assault involving a 15-year-old who was using the restroom inside the store and was accosted by …

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

Police & Fire

Third Man Arrested In Connection To Deadly Shooting In Maryland: Police Police in Montgomery County have arrested another suspect as they continue their probe into the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Alan Garnica last month. Weeks after the department announced the arrests of Kenes Yair Guevara, 19, and Osman Antonio Maldonado, 20, investigators announced on Friday that Gaithersburg resident Rodrigo Hernandez, 18, has been apprehended for his alleged role in the Montgomery Village murder. MCPD is on scene of a shooting in the 18300 block of Lost Knife Cir. More information will be released as it becomes available. #MCPNews #MCPD pic.twitter.com/…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

85-Year-Old Man Stabbed Elderly Wife To Death Over Pancake Dispute In DC, Feds Say Breakfast turned bloody for an elderly couple in DC when an 85-year-old man stabbed his wife to death over pancakes, according to federal prosecutors. Steven Schwartz has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife Sharron Schwartz, 81, when he reportedly took umbrage with her meal early on Sunday, Dec. 10. Schwartz did not want to eat the pancakes, and he took out that frustration on his wife, officials say, who was then rushed to an area hospital, where she later died. He was also reportedly taken to the hospital with what police described as "self-inflicted injuries" aft…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

Ex-Navy Sailor Who Made Rape Threats In Virginia Sentenced To Time In Fed Pen A former Navy sailor in Virginia who made violent threats toward at least five women sailors and vets after they rejected his romantic advances is heading to prison, federal authorities announced. Justin Leung, 23, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for cyberstalking and threatening to kidnap, violently rape, and humiliate the women or their relatives "through the degradation of their bodies" after they turned him down. Over the course of several months earlier this year, prosecutors say that the Norfolk man sent unwanted and threatening messages to his victims, including some that s…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

Max Sentence For Man Who Attempted To Rape Woman, Stole Wedding Rings In MD: State's Attorney A 68-year-old Maryland man will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty to violently raping a woman in a Motel 6, the Harford County State's Attorney's Office announced. Edgewood native Bernard Lamont Staten received the maximum sentence after pleading guilty in separate cases to attempted second-degree rape and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. In January, prosecutors say that his victim was stranded on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck, and despite not knowing her, offered to give the woman a ride to her home in Westminster; how…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

Predator Who Targeted Woman 21 Years Ago Gets Life For 'Unimaginable' Rape In MD: Prosecutors More than two decades after a 20-year-old woman was found raped and dropped unconscious in a ditch off the side of I-95 in Cecil County, justice has been served. Harford County resident Bryant Nakia White, 48, of Edgewood, was sentenced to multiple life sentences for the 2002 attack of a woman whose body was left on the side of the interstate off of Frenchtown Road near Port Deposit, prosecutors announced. Investigators said that at approximately 4 a.m. on April 6, 2002, a truck driver noticed the body of a woman - whose name has not been released "due to the nature of the crimes committed”…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

Former Correctional Officer Gets Time For Sexually Abusing Inmates At MD Prison: Feds A former correctional officer in Maryland will spend years on the other side of the bars after admitting to violating prisoners' civil rights, prosecutors say. Baltimore native Owen Nesmith, 54, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, June 20, to multiple charges that include the depravation of rights under the color of law and making false statements for having sexual contact with victims at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup. On Thursday, officials announced that Nesmith has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for abusing the inmates. Nesmith was the acting lieutenant at…

by Zak Failla

12/15/2023

News

Police ID Driver Wanted For Hit-Run Crash That Hospitalized 3 Near Maryland Courthouse Know anything? Police in Montgomery County are seeking the public's assistance as they attempt to track down a hit-and-run driver who struck and hospitalized three people near a Rockville courthouse on Thursday. An alert was issued by the Rockville City Police Department regarding a crash that was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 14 in the area of the 100 block of East Montgomery Avenue. Police say that the driver, Walter Giovanni Marquez-Aviles, 44, of Gaithersburg, fled the scene in a dark-colored SUV after striking the pedestrians. According to officials, a…

by Zak Failla

12/14/2023

News

Dirt Bike Rider Convicted Of Shooting At Family Stopped At Red Light Near Maryland Intersection The man who tried to pull a fast one over on police investigators in Edgewood has been convicted of attempted murder after a shooting in September last year, the Harford County State's Attorney announced. Luke Edward Powell, 24, is facing a lengthy prison stay after being arrested for a shooting near his Cherry Road home in Edgewood while he was riding his dirt bike, which he subsequently tried to hide from investigators. According to prosecutors, on Sept. 5, 2022, deputies from the Harford County Sheriff's Office were called to investigate a reported shooting near the intersection of Hanso…

by Zak Failla

12/14/2023

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