Allegany County: Grantsville
Truck driver charged with making threats
A truck driver from Cumberland has been charged with threatening an Allegany County District Court judge, a witness and area police officers, authorities said.
John W. McKenzie Jr., 55, was arrested Saturday by SWAT team members and undercover police officers in Grantsville, the Cumberland Times-News reported. He was being held yesterday on $2.5 million bond, with a bond review scheduled for today.
McKenzie was charged with one count of threatening a state official, two counts of obstruction of justice, seven counts of extortion and one count of witness retaliation.
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Montgomery Co.
: Rockville
Charges dropped for lack of translator
A man accused of raping and repeatedly molesting a 7-year-old girl is no longer facing charges because the court took too long to find an interpreter in his native West African language.
Police in Montgomery County arrested Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian immigrant living in Gaithersburg, three years ago. Prosecutors at first said Kanneh could understand the proceedings without translation into Vai, his native language. A psychiatrist recommended an interpreter and judges heeded that advice. But officials could not find a competent interpreter.
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