Suspect in Salisbury girl's kidnapping, death is indicted
The suspect in the slaying of an 11-year-old Salisbury girl found dead Christmas Day was indicted Monday on charges of kidnapping, child abduction and burglary, according to online court records. Thomas J. Leggs Jr. will face additional charges, authorities have said. A medical examiner has determined that Sarah Haley Foxwell's death was a homicide. Her body was found Christmas Day. Leggs, 30, has convictions for sex offenses in Maryland and Delaware.
- Associated Press
Trial of three in Harris murder is postponed
The murder trial of three men accused of killing former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris was postponed Monday because one defense attorney is in trial with another client and a second lawyer needs more time to investigate the case. The state also needs time to respond to a defense motion, filed by Jason Silverstein on Christmas Eve, seeking to throw out certain DNA evidence as illegally obtained. The new trial date for defendants Charles McGaney and Gary Collins, both 21, and Jerome Williams, 17, is April 30. The three young men are accused of fatally shooting Harris in the early morning of Sept. 20, 2008, after a failed robbery attempt at the Northwood Plaza shopping center in Northeast Baltimore.
- Tricia Bishop
Man who beat daughter's boyfriend is sentenced
Baltimore County Circuit Judge John G. Turnbull II put himself Monday in the shoes of a defendant charged with beating up a young man he had found hiding almost naked in his daughter's bedroom closet. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing," Turnbull said. "In some houses he would have been shot." Arlen Turpin, 53, was accused of administering such a severe pistol-whipping to Andrew Taylor, 19 - who admitted to having conducted a "risky" sexual relationship with Turpin's 16-year-old daughter - that he fractured his skull. The judge gave Turpin a suspended five-year jail sentence and 18 months of unsupervised probation, and ordered him to have no contact with Taylor.
- Nick Madigan