D.C. detective is indicted over alleged theft
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Version 0 of 1. A federal grand jury has indicted a veteran D.C. police detective and narcotics strike force member on fraud charges over the alleged theft of $13,380 in overtime pay in 2010 and 2011. Davd P. Dessin, 48, formerly assigned to the FBI and D.C. Police’s Safe Streets Task Force, pleaded not guilty Friday and was released on personal recognizance until a Nov. 6 hearing before U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer. A federal grand jury returned a 12-count indictment against Dessin on Oct. 22, charging him with seven federal and five D.C. counts of fraud, identity theft and theft of government funds. — Spencer Hsu Two men were killed Tuesday night after the stolen car they were in left the road, struck a fence and smashed into a house in Fairfax County, police said. Police identified the driver as Antonio A. Badie, 28, of Alexandria. The passenger’s name was not released, pending notification of his relatives. The passenger, who was 27, died at the scene. Badie died after being taken to a hospital. Fairfax police said their initial investigation indicated that the driver was headed east in the westbound lane of Beacon Hill Road in the Beacon Hill section of the county, south of Alexandria, in a 2008 Honda at a “high rate of speed.” The car landed in the dining room of a home in the 6800 block of Smithway Drive. No one was in the home at the time of the crash. Police said the car had been reported stolen from the Falls Church area Oct. 18. — Dana Hedgpeth A Howard County man is accused of beating his wife to death with a dumbbell while their three young children were in the house, police said Wednesday. Jason W. Martin, 41, was charged with killing Carla Dee Martin, 42, in their house in the 9500 block of Glen Ridge Drive in Laurel on Tuesday night. County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said that Jason Martin went to a neighbor’s house with blood on his clothes about 11 p.m. and told the neighbor that his wife had been hurt. Llewellyn said that the three children, all younger than 12, did not see their mother being killed. — Julie Zauzmer A homeless man was arrested in a shooting at a Forestville gas station that left another man dead, Prince George’s County police said. Tony A. Singletary, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Christopher C. Ealey, 22, police said. Singletary and Ealey had an ongoing dispute, authorities said. Their disagreement allegedly erupted with the shooting shortly after 7 p.m. Oct. 5 inside a gas station in the 3200 block of Walters Lane, police said. Singletary is being held in jail without bond. — Lynh Bui |